{"id":51563,"date":"2014-06-18T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=51563"},"modified":"2014-06-18T08:09:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T12:09:40","slug":"deployed-sailor-ordered-to-court-for-custody-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51563","title":{"rendered":"Deployed sailor ordered to court for custody dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sends us this link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Submariner-fighting-for-custody-far-out-at-sea-263569101.html\">KOMO News<\/a> in regards to Matthew Hindes, a submariner on the USS Michigan, who happens to be deployed, but a judge has ordered that he appear in court for a custody hearing or lose custody of his daughter. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hindes and his ex-wife Angela are now locked in a custody dispute back in Michigan with a mandatory court hearing on Monday.  It&#8217;s one he&#8217;s unable to attend because the Michigan is deployed in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Hindes&#8217; Navy commanders point to the &#8220;Servicemembers Civil Relief Act.&#8221;  It says, &#8220;In an action covered by this section in which the defendant is in military service, the court shall grant a stay of proceedings for a minimum period of 90 days&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But circuit court judge Margaret Noe in Michigan denied that protection for Hindes. The Daily Telegram quotes the judge, &#8220;If the child is not in the care and custody of the father, the child should be in the care and custody of the mother.&#8221;  But sailor Hindes argues the child was taken from the ex-wife four years ago for neglect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m wondering why we have laws to protect the rights of soldiers, sailors and Marines if the courts are going to be completely arbitrary about how those laws will be applied. <\/p>\n<p><iframe width='500' height='300' seamless='seamless' src='http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/Submariner-fighting-for-custody-far-out-at-sea-263569101.html?embed' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone sends us this link from KOMO News in regards to Matthew Hindes, a submariner on &hellip; <a title=\"Deployed sailor ordered to court for custody dispute\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=51563\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deployed sailor ordered to court for custody dispute<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}