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Judges and Judiciary

Sep. 29, 2005

Courts Need to Stay Clear of Family Religious Entanglements

Forum Column - By Warren D. Camp - Trial courts are vested with broad judicial discretion to fashion orders that are in the best interests of children in matters of child-custody and visitation litigation. However, nowhere in recent years has that broad discretion taken such a beating as it has in the area of First Amendment protection of a parent's right to religious expression in the upbringing of his or her child.

        
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