| America's sweetheart and Academy Award | | | | allow them to determine whether a step parent |
| winner Sandra Bullock reportedly is having | | | | can get to be with the step children. It's |
| marriage trouble because of her husband Jesse | | | | complicated, that's for sure. In some ways, step |
| James' admission of infidelity. I am sure this | | | | parents are like grand parents, they are very |
| story will be covered widely for many more | | | | much on the fringe in situations like these, no |
| weeks to come. | | | | matter how much time, money and love has |
| What is interesting to me is her rights to her step | | | | been put into raising the children. And, may I add |
| children, if we assume that she wants to have a | | | | that some step parents choose to have the step |
| relationship with them. She has helped her | | | | children as their children, while some biological |
| husband Jesse James' case for child custody for | | | | parents didn't. |
| having provided a stable home for the children, | | | | What is in the best inters of the children get |
| and Divorce Magazine has written about how | | | | more and more difficult to determine as parents |
| Sandra Bullock relishes her role as a mother to | | | | go through mulitple divorces. How many sets of |
| her step children. | | | | parents and grand parents can a child have and |
| Interestingly, in her recent Oscar acceptance | | | | spend quality time with? And how often would |
| speech for her role in the movie "Blindside", she | | | | these children be split up because they have |
| said the award is "… for the moms that take | | | | different fathers. How many people have to be |
| care of the babies and children no matter where | | | | brought to the negotiation table to settle cases |
| they come from. These moms and parents never | | | | like this. And, are our divorce court judges,divorce |
| get thanks." I have to think that she included | | | | lawyers, fianncial advisors equipped to deal with |
| herself and her step children in that message. | | | | this? I don't envy any one of them involved in |
| I believe the law as it stands does not favor step | | | | cases like this. |
| parents. That the biological parents' rights would | | | | |