Word: guardianship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year, the case before the Ames Court deals with the guardianship of a 16-year-old woman who left her family for two years to join a religious group...
...parents maintain that she was coerced, and a lower court awarded them guardianship of the woman. The woman, along with her church, is challenging this ruling as an infringement of her constitutional right to freedom of religion...
...more than a few idiosyncrasies. And the plot's chaotic entanglements are as predictable as the first few tricky moves of a cat's cradle. The rivals, Bob Acres and Sir Lucius O'Trigger, vie for the hand of lovely Lydia Languish, who remains cloistered under the guardianship of her old-maid aunt, Mrs. Malaprop. Disguised as Ensign Beverly, Captain Absolute has already secretly won Lydia's favor, but when his father, Anthony Absolute arranges his marriage to Lydia using his real title, Lydia rebuffs...
...some reason, however, the issue of the state's extension of guardianship to the infant who is not "normal" becomes more complex, although the courts have consistently declined to explain their apprehension. Courts have handed down both positive and negative decisions with regard to guardianship where surgery is required for the Mongoloid infant to live. Until five years ago, most states declined to appoint a guardian for such a child. In more recent years, however, the courts have tended to reverse themselves, and most will now remove jurisdiction of the child from the natural parents...
...Vlasta, who had remarried, decided to ask U.S. courts for custody of the kids. The father had entrusted the children-Vlasta, 9, and Bedrich, 7-to a local couple, Roy and Madeline Smith, who became their foster parents; after Bedrich's death, the Smiths filed suit for legal guardianship (TIME...