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Question by President JJ: How long can child custody battles last?
A friend of mine is stuck in a very nasty custody battle. While if she were in a more liberal state the issue may have been resolved seeing as her ex is somewhat unfit. Unfortunately she isn’t and the ex is going through great lengths to win. The child will be a year in several months and this has been going on for about 6 months already how much longer can this battle last in court.
This all is happening out of state. Would it be possible for…

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I did not work at all last year. I lived off my savings. I have three children all in school and I do not pay day care. Do I still have to file taxes?

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We have been trying to conceive and fail lots of times. She has irregular cycles. She has followed charts and we can’t make it happen. We are fertal so what can we do now. She has gotten a uterus message and vitamin shots to give her uterus strength. What should we try next?

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Or can you legally give them another name?

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From Publishers Weekly
Today’s kids are increasingly disconnected from the natural world, says child advocacy expert Louv (Childhood’s Future; Fatherlove; etc.), even as research shows that “thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can… be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorder and other maladies.” Instead of passing summer months hiking, swimming and telling stories around the campfire, children these days are more likely to attend computer camps or weight-loss camps: as a result, Louv says, they’ve come to think of nature as more of an abstraction than a reality. Indeed, a 2002 British study reported that…

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