custody

Three judges are going to  be added temporarily to the Philadelphia family court in order to address a severe backlog in custody cases, The Legal Intelligencer's P.J. D'Annunzio reports. Frank Cervone, executive director of the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia, told The Legal that the current state of affairs in custody cases is "upsetting" and said the court should add more judges. "The impact of these cases on children and families is profound, Cervone said, and the court should take an 'all hands on deck' approach to tackling custody reform," The Legal further reported.

An Indiana appellate court asked for legislators to address custody issues involving children of same-sex and other non-traditional families in which an "intended parent lacks a genetic connection to the child," according to the Associated Press. "'What began as a trickle is rapidly becoming a torrent, and the number of children whose lives are impacted by rules that have yet to be written only increases with the passage of time,' Judge Ezra Friedlander wrote in the opinion, 'They, and we, would welcome a legislative roadmap to help navigate the novel legal landscape in which we have arrived,'" according to the AP.