Topics: Child Custody and Support - 45 results

Basketball star Steve Nash is hoping to get out of paying child support for his three children, claiming that his ex-wife has enough money already and would spoil them with extravagent gifts. Nash currently plays point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. He is best known for being the catalyst of the high-scoring “seven seconds or less” Phoenix Suns offense in the middle of the last decade, when he won two league most valuable player awards. He also spent six years …

The parents of two children whose grandparents had just been granted custody of them have been jailed back in the United States after they kidnapped the boys and fled in a sailboat to Cuba.    Boat Trip to Cuba The FBI chased down Joshua Hakken and his wife Sharyn Hakken, who on Apr. 3 tied up Sharyn’s parents and made off with the two children, Cole, 4 years old, and Chase, 2, as well as the family dog. On Apr. …

The brother of a Miami Heat basketball player from South Dakota is in his own heated child custody battle with his ex-wife (a la Dwyane Wade); she says she now wants back the parental rights she appears to have earlier bargained away to him. Jared Miller and his new wife want to keep sole custody of the three children he fathered with Jessica Ibanez, who is alleging that Miller – whose brother Mike Miller plays for the Heat – committed …

Former football star Deion Sanders on Tuesday was granted full custody of his sons, ages 11 and 13, as part of a bitter divorce from his wife, Pilar. The estranged couple was given joint custody of their 9-year-old daughter. Sanders, 45, was one of the top defensive backs of all time in the National Football League, and also sustained a 9-year Major League Baseball career during the off-season. His time in the majors included stints with the New York Yankees, …

A New York woman lost custody of her child to her former husband after calling the child an asshole on Facebook. An appeals court this month upheld a 2010 family court decision giving sole legal custody to the child’s father after finding that the arrangement would be in the best interest of the child. The couple had joint custody of their three children following their 2006 separation, with the father as the primary caregiver. However, after the mother requested to …