Posted on June 15, 2008 by Tracey
Robin Tyler and Diane Olsen, who filed the first California lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, will be the first gay couple in Los Angeles to legally marry. County officials will grant the two women an early license this coming Monday evening in recognition of their historic role. Licenses will be granted to [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2007 by Tracey
IN THE NEWS….Dwayne Allen Dail spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. New DNA evidence set him free, and now he faces a civil lawsuit from his son’s mother for years of back child support.
Dail is entitled to $360,000 in compensation from the state for the wrongful imprisonment. Who should [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2007 by Tracey
FIRST-PERSON….What I find disturbing about equick pay is that the counties that have little or no money to administer these programs now have to send what surplus they did have (in the form of interest) to a private company that charges additional fees to obligees (service fees). All in all, it makes me sick.
This [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2007 by Tracey
FIRST-PERSON….I had a girlfriend in the 90s. We ended up having a kid, and going to court a couple of years later. I had just moved back to DC, I had no job. I went into the hearing, and it was just a strike of the gavel, you’re paying $1250 a [...]
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