Recently in Child Custody Category

Childhood obesity has been in the news, to a great extent driven by FLOTUS Michelle Obama’s anti-childhood obesity action plans, reports AOL Politics.

On the coat-tails of efforts like these are more local Atlanta childhood obesity campaigns, like Strong4Life which have been quite controversial for how starkly they have been pushing the issue, as reported by National Public Radio (NPR).

A look at one of the ads puts the controversy in context. As NPR describes:

The Oscar-winning actress, Halle Berry, announced that she is engaged to Olivier Martinez, a French film actor, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Halle is well known around Atlanta, because of her history with the city. During the 1990's she was married to former Atlanta Braves star David Justice, reports Time.

Berry's Oscar-winning performance in the film, Monster's Ball, is also set in the Southern United States.

The comedienne Roseanne Barr will have to pay $40,000 to her ex-husband, reports TMZ, much of it for attorney’s fees.

Roseanne’s ex-husband, Ben Thomas, had initially wanted $100,000 from her, reportedly as a way to punish her for their child custody battle, which was settled back in August. Details about Roseanne’s custody issue emerged after her ex-husband filed unsealed documents in court, reports Radar Online.

Former NBA guard, Eric Snow, is getting a divorce from his wife DeShawn Graves Snow, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The former Mrs. Snow, Deshawn Graves, is a former star of the The Real Housewives of Atlanta. She was let go from the show reportedly because she wasn't controversial enough. Her replacement was Kandi Buruss. Deshawn Graves Snow later described the reality show as "a circus show" reports the AJC. She has moved on from the reality show circuit and according to her website is a minister at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church and is getting a divinity degree at Regent University.

The police in the city of Marietta are looking for a grandpa that took his grandson with him on a crime spree, reports WSB Radio.

The discovery of the incident occurred after a car was hotwired by a barefoot older man and his grandson between the ages of five to seven. Before they made off with the Honda Civic, the pair had been in the convenience store trying to steal ice cream and cheese.

Technology has changed our lives for the better in many different ways, from entertainment, to social media, to medicine. Now technology may make a difference in terms of how divorced parents exercise visitation with their children through the rise of virtual visitation, reports FindLaw.

As the name suggests, virtual visitation, is a form of child visitation that requires the use of technology — such as email, video conferencing, video mail, and instant messaging.

Jury selection is about to begin in the murder of Maureen Allaben, reports CBS Atlanta.

Maureen Allaben was a DeKalb area food stylist and decorator working for the Mo'nique comedy show on BET. Allaben was allegedly killed by her 47-year-old husband, Dennis Allaben, who then drove around with her body.

Even more gruesomely, while Maureen Allaben's body was still in the car, Dennis allegedly drove the couple's two children to a relative's home.

During the trial, a question that people will be thinking about is: what happens to Maureen Allaben's children if Dennis Allaben is convicted? Their mother will be deceased and their father would be in jail.

Talk about a strange set of facts.

A woman went missing for a couple of days and in that time her husband filed for divorce, alimony and sole custody of the two children. Then, a few days later she was discovered dead not far from the house and the husband became a suspect in her killing. Now, the dead wife's parents have filed for custody of the two children, ages 12 and 9.

The case of the dead forty four year old Atlanta wife and mother, Nique Leili, as reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, now includes what is sure to be a confrontational and emotional custody problem.

In a major case to come down from the Ohio Supreme Court, reports Human Rights Campaign, it was ruled that a woman named Michelle Hobbs, who financially and emotionally helped her same-sex partner, Kelly Mullen, become pregnant and give birth through the in vitro process, could not be recognized as a co-parent after the relationship between the women broke down.

The court reached its position even though, noted the ABA Journal, Hobbs had a ceremonial birth certificate with her name on it, was named guardian if something should happen to the same-sex biological mother, and had various kinds of power of attorney authority.

Because Georgia does not recognize same-sex marriages, but many gay and lesbian couples continue to bring children into this world, this issue has bearing on our state.

Until recently, Georgia was one of twelve states that did not provide legal protections to divorced military parents, so that when soldiers went away for deployment, they often lost their parental and visitation rights, reports Geogia Public Broadcast.

This constant "disenfranchisement" -- as Macon's 13WMAZ described it -- was recently put to a stop by the Military Rights Act.

Governor Nathan Deal signed the bill into law on May 11. The bill was originally Senate Bill SB 112 and House Bill HB 282.