Showing posts with label child custody. Show all posts
Showing posts with label child custody. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Thai Surrogacy Scandals Push Legislative Reform



After the stories of baby Gammy and a surrogacy baby factory surfaced, the need for commercial surrogacy laws in Thailand became even more apparent.

Several Thai government offices are taking action to advance laws against commercial surrogacy and stipulating regulations of other issues such as establishing parenthood and child custody.   

As aresult of the recent issues arising out of surrogacy in Thailand, the Thai Government is currently considering approving a proposed Draft Surrogacy law for Thailand .

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Friday, February 7, 2014

Divorce Lawyer Gets 2 Years in Tax Evasion, Eavesdropping

Making headlines in California, a Federal judge has sentenced a female divorce attorney to two years in prison for tax evasion and illegal wiretaps.

The female divorce attorney, name Mary Nolan, is a veteran attorney with many decades of experience. She was accused of setting up her client’s spouses with fake DUIs with the help of a private investigator.

In the scheme to win more financial settlement for her clients, Nolan paid an investigator to plant illegal listening devices in her client’s spouse’s cars. The investigator would then pay beautiful women to buy the spouses drinks in bars and restaurants and when they get into their cars to drive home, they would get pulled over by tipped off law enforcement officials. 

This scheme was allegedly intended to discredit the spouses by hurting their characters in court.

Character evidence and evidence of bad conduct is often prescribed in divorce cases according to Chaninat and Leeds divorce attorney, Jiraporn Thongphong, especially during child custody cases. Investigators are often employed to uncover evidence about the opposing spouses, and used to discredit them in courts, however creating contrite evidence about an opposing spouse is often times not needed because backgrounds and histories will usually suffice.

Read the full story here