What happens when the system designed to protect families becomes the source of harm? Father & Co. investigates family courts, custody disputes, and the mental health consequences of institutional failure.
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A $21 Million Verdict Didn't Give Cynthia Hayek Her Kids Back
In November 2023, a Routt County, Colorado jury decided Cynthia Hayek had told the truth for four years while nearly everyone paid to protect her children called her a liar.
Following a 22-day trial, the jury awarded Hayek and her f...
The Pipeline Nobody Audits
A report making the rounds this week counted something nobody had bothered to count before: the ideological makeup of the professors who teach election law in America’s law schools. The Public Interest Legal Foundation reviewed all 1...
A Massachusetts Family Says the State Took Their Daughter Over a Gender Dispute. The Record Is More Complicated Than the Viral Version.
A Southborough, Massachusetts couple says the state took custody of their teenage daughter in December 2024 after they declined, on religious grounds, to treat her as a boy — a claim that has circulated widely over the past week thro...
"Worth It": When a Custody Order Isn't Enough to Save a Child
By Michael Phillips | Father & Co.
Basil Stoner was 11 months old when his mother shot him rather than surrender him to his father under a court order. She had weeks to think about it first — weeks in which an emergency custody orde...
The Medical Necessity Dodge
A federal appeals court just rejected a defense institutions have used for years to deny disabled people accommodations: that their own medical process gets the final word.
For nearly five months, Bilal Adom lived without adult d...
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