Remember Mediation? I DoThis is an excerpt from my book, There's Been A Change of Plans, A Memoir About Divorce, Dating and Delinquents in Midlife. It is available on Amazon.The day had come for my final meeting with my beloved divorce attorney, Madison Pierce. This would be when we would sit down and go over my financial settlement, which, frankly, I was looking forward to because I had been thinking of investing in a new energy bar for dogs... [...]
Woman forced to travel 300 miles to abort dying fetusCOLUMBUS — An Ohio woman whose baby would have been stillborn was forced to travel 300 miles to Chicago because no Ohio abortion clinic would do the procedure, she said.Sheva Guy, 23, a doctoral student from Cincinnati, said her daughter was diagnosed with a fatal spinal abnormality when she went to a hospital for her second-trimester ultrasound at about 22 weeks. She and her husband were... [...]
Attorneys Gain $9.6M Award Against GEICO for Bad Faith in Fatal CrashCase: James M. Harvey v. GEICO General Insurance
Case no.: 50-2013-CA-017284
Description: Bad faith
Filing date: Nov. 20, 2013
Verdict date: Oct. 23, 2015
Judge: Palm Beach Circuit Judge Cheryl Caracuzzo
Plaintiffs attorneys: Fred Cunningham and Greg Yaffa, Cunningham Whalen & Gaspari, Palm Beach Gardens
Defense attorneys: Richard Young, Pensacola, and Adam Duke... [...]
Illinois transgender student wins case(CNN) - A Chicago-area school district violated anti-discrimination laws by denying a transgender student full access to the girl's locker room, federal authorities said, the latest inquiry to side with students who feel discriminated against by school policies.The finding against Township High School District 211 concerns only one of numerous complaints of discrimination made by transgender students.In... [...]
Enrique Macotela arrested in Coral Springs woman's deathCORAL SPRINGS, Fla. -Police have arrested a man in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Magdalena Weich, 38, who was found dead in a wooded area in Coral Springs in August.Enrique Macotela initially told police Weich left to walk to Barnes & Noble on Aug. 18 but never returned home or went to work the next day. Her body was found Aug. 20 along Sample Road.Police began... [...]
