Word: guardianship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Synanon founder has a drinking problem, suffers from a heart ailment and obesity and is in a deep depression. Last week Dederich's wife Regina and daughter Cecelia Jason filed a petition in Mohave County Superior Court stating that he is an "incapacitated person" and asking for guardianship...
...solution was to board with his grandparents in Valley Stream (30 minutes away) and attend the high school there. But to do that the Caponis had to make their son the ward of his grandparents. 'I didn't like the idea of signing over the guardianship papers," says Rae Caponi, Sabato's mother. "It's hard enough when they're 18 and go away to college." Sabato makes it home on weekends but rarely on week nights. "I hated the board for breaking up my family," says Mrs. Caponi...
...Cooksey suffered visibly from the trouble. In Texas, Cooksey is permitted to practice law on the side, and uses his county-paid secretarial help and office (in a building owned by Friedman). Last year, in a guardianship matter tossed his way by a friendly judge, Cooksey netted a $22,000 fee; that reflected, he said, 440 hours of work, equivalent to 3% months of full-time work. He continued to receive his full $26,100 annual district attorney's salary, of course, which helped pay for a $38,000 private airplane and a private deer-hunting lodge. Sabo, incidentally...
Kenneth F. Maclver, a teaching fellow in Law, wrote the fictitious case, a review of the constitutional validity of a state statute which permits probate courts to give parents guardianship of children influenced by fringe religious groups, such as the Unification Church...
...year-old Ames contest pits third-year law school students in arguments over fictional cases based on actual cases involving constitutional issues. This year's Ames competition will address the issue of the guardianship of a minor who has left her family to join a religious sect...