{"id":2029,"date":"2004-06-14T11:01:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T18:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/06\/supreme-court-gets-it-right\/"},"modified":"2004-06-14T11:01:12","modified_gmt":"2004-06-14T18:01:12","slug":"supreme-court-gets-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/14\/supreme-court-gets-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court gets it right"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI was prepared to hate the Supreme Court’s opinion<\/a> in the Newdow pledge-of-allegiance case<\/a>, but it appears that they got it right:<\/p>\n

Sandra Banning, the child?s mother, then filed a motion to intervene or dismiss, declaring, inter alia, that she had exclusive legal custody under a state-court order and that, as her daughter?s sole legal custodian, she felt it was not in the child?s interest to be a party to Newdow?s suit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Newdow doesn’t have legal custody, either joint or sole, despite the fact that the kid spends 10 days a month with him. It’s extremely unusual for a California family court not to award joint legal custody – dad has to be a wacko or an abuser not to get this status, which is largely viewed as window-dressing. But in this case we see that it actually means something, so fathers shouldn’t accept anything less.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was prepared to hate the Supreme Court’s opinion in the Newdow pledge-of-allegiance case, but it appears that they got it right: Sandra Banning, the child?s mother, then filed a motion to intervene or dismiss, declaring, inter alia, that she had exclusive legal custody under a state-court order and that, as her daughter?s sole legal … Continue reading “Supreme Court gets it right”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-wJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}