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Safe Haven Laws
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Family Law Prof Blog
Adoption Rights Case Arising from a Troubled Relationship and Divorce
By Family Law
From WKAR Public Media:The Michigan Supreme Court will hear the adoption right case, a challenge that could upend a law that allows birth parents to anonymously drop off newborns at…
South Carolina Adoption Law Blog
Daniel’s Law: Safety for the Infant and Parent
Section 63-7-40 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, as amend, provides distressed young women and men an opportunity to surrender a new born child without being prosecuted for abandoning…
South Carolina Adoption Law Blog
Daniel’s Law: Safe Haven for Abandoned Child and His Parents
Section 63-7-40 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, as amend, provides distressed young women and men an opportunity to surrender a new born child without being prosecuted for abandoning…
Family Law Prof Blog
Previous Nebraska Safe Haven Law Blunder
By Family Law
State safe haven laws allowparents to anonymously, and without penalty, abandon very young children atdesignated public locations for the purpose of adoption. There are often certain limitations on thislegalized form…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
New Parents Thankful for Mass. Safe Haven Law
The Boston Globe: Abandoned to happiness, by Patricia Wen:Born to a woman unable to cope, baby Jane Doe found new parents who give thanks to mother, Safe Haven law It…
Family Law Prof Blog
Recent Scholarship on Safe Haven Laws
By Family Law
Recent articles addressing Safe Haven laws include: Carol Sanger, Infant Safe Haven Laws: Legislating In The Culture Of Life, 106 Colum. L. Rev. 753 (2006) available on SSRN A comprehensive…
Family Law Prof Blog
FAQ on Nebraska Safe Haven Law
By Family Law
At last count 34 children have been left at Nebraska hospitals under the state's safe haven law. While the legislature is meeting in special session today to amend the law…
Family Law Prof Blog
Nebraska’s Safe Haven Law – Controversies
By Family Law
Nebraska's "safe-haven" law which allows parents to abandon children at hospitals without being prosecuted has been garnering lots of news. The reason? While other states have similar laws, other states…
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Mass. Web site promotes ‘safe haven’ law
BabySafeHaven is a Web site launched today by Massachusetts officials as part of a campaign to make the public aware of a new state law that allows a parent anonymously…