When the Computer Opens the Closet
Once women like Jennifer might have spent decades in the limbo of ignorance or denial, while their husbands explored their sexual orientation and lived furtive double lives. But in the age of the Internet, the blinders can be yanked off with the flick of a finger. Mental health professionals and matrimonial lawyers say that many marriages, involving both heterosexuals and homosexuals, are collapsing under the weight of documentary evidence left behind on computers, just as computer records are increasingly tripping up business leaders, employees and others who forget that these are communications not easily denied.
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Alleged 'voodoo' cases catching up to lawyer I've had lots of complaints over the years about lawyers who cheat their clients out of money, but this lawyer sounds like a common crook.

Kids become pawns in parents' tug-of-war
And in Illinois, a man who gave his former girlfriend's son his last name, financial support and help in some child-rearing chores over two years has sued for visitation rights. He points to a voluntary paternity form he signed when the boy was born. The mother, on the other hand, wants to end all ties. Link

Grandparents Fight To See Children Of Murdered Daughter-In-Law
Two Children In Maternal Grandparents' Custody

CHICAGO -- The in-laws of a murdered Chicago lawyer on Thursday filed a motion seeking visitation rights to their two grandchildren, who have lived with the dead woman's parents since the killing. Link

Disputes erupt over embryos
Legal battles force estranged couples to choose what happens to potential children.
Chrisy and Jason Haltom are storing potential sons or daughters inside a liquid nitrogen tank at an Indianapolis laboratory.
The Indiana couple is saving three of the approximately 400,000 human embryos experts estimate have been frozen across America. Happily married and raising their first child, the pair can't imagine disagreeing on what should happen to the fertilized eggs.

But unhappier couples might find themselves in a legal thicket if they split up: Who owns the embryos?