Tag Archives: Child custody

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 …

Dr. Jonathan Sporn found himself “falling deeper and deeper in love” with his infant son, Lincoln, after the boy’s July 2012 birth. But due to legal circumstances and the tragic suicide of his biological mother, Lincoln has been in a foster home for more than a month and isn’t likely to leave anytime soon. Sporn, a pharmaceuticals executive living in Manhattan, struck up a romance with prominent attorney Leann Leutner in 2010. Both were divorced, and as their relationship grew, …