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Australian Government Conspired with Laura Garrett in Abduction of Daughters

Thursday, May 2nd, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Continuing to update the case of Tommaso Vincenti and Laura Garrett, there’s this article (Pickering Post).  It’s not of recent vintage, but it certainly provides more details about the unscrupulous and possibly illegal behavior of the Australian Department … Read the rest

Abducting Mother of Four Italian Girls Part of Previous Scam

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

The case of Tommaso Vincenti and his ex-wife, Laura Garrett has again forced itself onto center stage.  Vincenti is the Italian man who married the Australian, Laura Garrett.  They lived in his native Florence for many years and had … Read the rest

Mom ‘Unnerved’ By Fearfulness of Child Protective Services

Monday, April 8th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Hard on the heels of yesterday’s post about a young British man whose career was destroyed by a single allegation of sexual impropriety with a six year old boy at his place of employment, a daycare center, comes this.Read the rest

Rigamonti/Calder Case: The Child is Doing Fine, Thank You

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Here’s one final take on the Maurizio Rigamonti/Lura Calder case.  As you’ll recall, George Washington University professor Joan Meier took to the pages of the New York Times to express her entirely baseless opinion that the Hague Conventnion on … Read the rest

Maurizio Rigamonti/Lura Calder Case Opposite to What Joan Meier Claimed

Sunday, March 17th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

I recently wrote a piece on the thoroughly defective article in the New York Times by Professor Joan Meier of George Washington University Law School on international child abductions.  Her entirely unsupported (and unsupportable) thesis was “that courts typically … Read the rest

New York Times Op-Ed Substitutes Faith for Facts About International Child Abduction

Thursday, March 14th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Every so often, the mainstream news media awake from their slumber long enough to notice international child abduction by parents.  They should’ve stayed asleep.  A couple of years ago it was Time Magazine that ran a piece on the … Read the rest

Kenneth Miller Convicted of Abetting Child Abduction in Lisa Miller/Janet Jenkins Case

Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

The Lisa Miller/Janet Jenkins case is still with us.  Here’s the latest (Burlington Free Press, 3/3/13).  And here (Yahoo.com, 3//13).

To refresh your memory, Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins were partners.  They even made it … Read the rest

HuffPo: Fathers at Fault for Single Motherhood

Friday, February 1st, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

I read a lot about the family, parents, children, child rearing, family law, the social science of the family, etc.  Much of what I read is in some way ill-informed, biased, shallow, etc., but sometimes I run across a … Read the rest

Mom Abducts Kids; No Reduction in Parental Rights

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Child abductor Maggie Deigh got the benefit of the doubt from local police; now, after kidnapping two children, she’s getting it from the family court.  Read about it here (Liberty Tribune, 1/24/13) and here (Fox4KC, … Read the rest

Utah High Court Greenlights Terry Achane’s Custody of Daughter

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.

Terry Achane won another battle in his fight to gain custody of his daughter whom the child’s mother, a Utah attorney and the Adoption Agency of Choice in American Fork, Utah, attempted to traffic for adoption.  They almost succeeded. … Read the rest