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know by April 15. Primaries can have the child for a weekend of their choice (except Father’s Day, if they are not the dad) during the other parent’s summer. They are also allowed to “cancel” one of the visiting parent’s weekends, but not during the 30 days. For “taken” weekends, only 14 days’ notice is required. Distance makes all of this even trickier, but creative solutions abound. (That’s how “cousin camp” got started, after all!) For divorced parents who live more than 100 miles apart,
Just like under 100 miles, if the primary parent lets the visiting parent know by April 15, they can choose a weekend to have the child. If the visiting parent has more than 30 days in a row, the primary parent gets to choose two weekends. Over 100 miles, if you don’t let the visiting parent know before April 15, you can’t cancel any weekends, but if you do designate in time, you can designate 21 days during which there are no weekend visits. This would allow the primary parent to cancel, for instance, both the last weekend in May and the first weekend in June. It seems complicated because it is. That’s what happens when we try to solve parenting issues by passing laws. No matter how hard we try to make things fair, parents are going to feel like they can’t get important dates with their children. So, what can you do about it? Work to have a friendly relationship with the other parent, with a solid history of checking each other’s schedules and agreeing to trade days to accommodate each other and your child. The payoff is worth it. Last year, all six boys were at my sister’s home in Illinois. This year, they will be coming to Texas and staying with me from July 2–9. I am planning to take them to NASA and kayaking down Spring Creek Park, then we are renting a beach house in Galveston for a few days. What really matters is not what they do while they are in Texas; it is that they see each other often enough to care about each other and to have relationships.
summer is a lot more lopsided. The visiting
parent gets to choose 42 days. Once again, if they are choosing days, they may break them into two blocks, each one has to have at least seven days, they have to end seven days before school resumes, and you can’t take Father’s Day away from Dad. For 2021, with the parents living more than 100 miles apart, it will look like this if neither parent makes any selections.
-Ruby Bolton
The 3 Strangest Celebrity Lawsuits
Internet conspiracy theory results in a court case against Beyoncé. The internet is a wild place, and conspiracy theories are often born on its digital channels. One such theory was that Beyoncé and her husband, Jay-Z, hired a surrogate to give birth to their daughter, Blue Ivy, in 2012. Internet trolls who saw her pregnant belly roll as she sat down for an interview fanned the flames of this theory, and soon, a lawsuit emerged. A woman claimed she was the true biological mother of Blue Ivy, and she asked for compensation and DNA testing to prove it. Previously, the same woman claimed to be the birth mother of North West, the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, but the court threw out the case. Mila Kunis ruffles some feathers. Actress Mila Kunis was sued for $5,000 by her childhood friend, Kristina Karo, in 2015 because Kunis allegedly stole a chicken from Karo when they were still children in Ukraine. Karo, an aspiring singer, claimed the theft resulted in extreme emotional distress and prevented her from pursuing the American dream. According to Kunis, the theft occurred when she was 7 years old and Karo was just 1 month old. Kunis and her husband, actor Ashton Kutcher, speculated that the case was all a publicity stunt to promote Karo’s upcoming music video, and the case was eventually dropped.
Stories about celebrities can be enjoyable or awkward, but no matter what happens, they usually create great material for Buzzfeed or Reddit users. This also includes celebrity stories involving the law, which bring on a lot of head-scratching and legal action — like these three strange cases. Simon Cowell pays for a chef’s disappearing shoes. Known for his unrelenting critiques and setting the stage for some of the world’s biggest names in show business, Simon Cowell has amassed enough wealth to afford a private chef. When one such chef came by his house for a job interview, she was asked to remove
her shoes, but according to court documents, she never received her shoes back. The chef claims to have tried multiple times to retrieve the shoes — which were outfitted with $500 orthopedic insoles — but never succeeded. She sued
Cowell for the shoes and gas money, and the
“America’s Got Talent” star shelled out.
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