While a child of 16 years with a car is going to make his or her own decision about placement, do we really want to give a 7 year old that authority?

The confluence of law and politics does not always equal good policy. A good example is the continuing efforts over the years to deal with the issue of the effect of deployed service people and the placement of minor children.

2010AP2445, 2011AP186 In re the marriage of: Sandberg v. Donahue

2011AP1299-CR State v. Gutierrez-Hernandez

10-680 Howes v. Fields

2011AP573-CR State v. Land

The content of a law giving parents the right to assign temporary third-party guardianship doesn’t bother family law attorneys.

Criminal Procedure Miranda warnings; custody

Sexually Violent Persons Commitment; custody A person can be committed under Chapter 980 as a sexually violent person while the person is incarcerated. “A petition alleging that a person is sexually violent must be filed before the person is ‘released or discharged’ from custody or control of the DOC. See Wis. Stat. § 980.02(1m). If the court determines that the ...

Insurance Liability insurance; care, custody, or control exclusions The loss of a third party’s personal property, not necessary to work being done by an insured, is not excluded from coverage by a care, custody, or control exclusion. “In order to win under the ‘care, custody, or control’ exclusion of its policy at the summary judgment level, Westfield had to show ...