Multi-State Fathers' Rights & Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Fathers’ Rights on Saturday, April 19, 2014. We are still talking about a proposed constitutional amendment that has passed the Missouri House of Representatives. At this writing, the joint resolution was discussed at a Senate hearing but has not been placed on the calendar for general debate. As we explained in our last post, the amendment would preserve and protect parents’ right to raise their children as they see fit. This right belongs to both parents; the amendment does not differentiate between fathers and mothers: The term “parent” is defined here as “a biological parent

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Fathers’ Rights on Friday, April 18, 2014. A bill is making its way through the Missouri General Assembly that would add the protection of certain parental rights to the state constitution. The joint resolution has passed the House of Representatives and was the subject of a Senate hearing this week. If it passes the Senate, the measure will go to the voters in November. Specifically, the new constitutional amendment would affirm that a parent has the fundamental right to make life decisions for his or her minor child. Those decisions fairly closely follow the best

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Fathers’ Rights on Wednesday, April 9, 2014. When the woman in this case decided that she did not want the father of her child in the delivery room with her, she may not have realized she was making new law. She was simply a mother-to-be who had broken up with her fiance shortly after she learned she was pregnant. She knew he was the father, and she told the court that she would be amendable to him being notified when she went into labor, even to have him in a room adjacent to the delivery