Custody Quotations

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Every document, apparently ancient, coming from the proper repository or custody, and bearing on its face no evident marks of forger, the law presumes to be genuine, and devolves on the opposing party the burden of proving it to be otherwise.

Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

The epoch of Customary Law, and of its custody by a privileged order, is a very remarkable one.

Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule.

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.

But I'm a great father. That's why I got custody.

When you take the evidence at the crime scene and the pending child custody suit, we thought there was probable cause to charge her with murder, and the judge agreed,

Whether or not the law is passed, no one should be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment while in custody of the United States government,

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

There are more serious leaders who are outstanding and not in custody than the three you described and I am sure that a number of those will not be part of the reconciliation process but again that is a decision that the Afghan government has the lead on,

We've spent the day talking to people and seeing the steps that have been taken to see that those types of abuses to people for whom we have a responsibility and custody will not happen again,

We have appealed to replace the conditions of his custody with house arrest.

We have in custody seven males and one female. They are being processed at Pembroke Pines station and eventually they will be sent to Krome detention center.

Lucia Pinochet is currently in U.S. Customs and Border Protection custody at Dulles International Airport, pending resolution of her immigration status.

So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

She started yelling and screaming. She didn't want to go. My dad returned her to custody up here (in the jail), but she was blaming me, saying her kids were going to be taken away from her.

She is in custody and is getting no special treatment. She will go to the court on Thursday to enter a plea.

Most people who are in custody are unhappy about that ... I'm hopeful he and I are going to build a rapport.

Mr. Gonzalez is willing to bring his family to the United States and to remain here during whatever time it takes to complete the appeals process, ... For that to happen, however, he must have assurances that he will have custody of Elian during that time.

Next week I expect us to take steps to transfer the custody and the parole and care (of Elian),

Nobody's ruled out. The girl isn't back in custody and until that happens nobody will be ruled out.

Nothing is going to clear his client of what took place here, ... He will never be able to explain a 16-year-old, or any person, in custody slammed on the police car, punched in the face when he's helpless. There is no explanation for that.

I have called for an investigation on that. We are going to find out, first of all, how the guards are behaving. Those responsible for the deportation of Zhang may be charged with infidelity in the custody of a prisoner and dereliction of duty,

I don't know of any officers who are still working as officers - or sergeants or lieutenants or captains - at the age of 82. I know we have employees who have worked into their 80s, (but) I don't know whether they were custody staff.

I believe that the children should be temporarily removed from Mr. Jackson's care and custody because of the history of Michael Jackson with children and his statements that I have outlined, combined with the present criminal allegations,

I am sorry that they had to go in after him this way, but I don't know what choice the attorney general had. The father actually had custody, legal custody of this child for the last nine days. The relatives in Miami would not give him up.

From information from the witnesses it is believed the individuals we have in custody were the only ones involved in the incident.

I don't understand it. It's clear that the child should be in the custody of his father,

GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764.

I got a message from (Police Chief Robert Smythe) saying a guy died in custody after struggling with officers,

If the father is able to take custody of the boy -- he would be here tomorrow.

If the INS had stuck with its earlier position that it was a case about custody ... then everyone would have felt that an open, fair process had been followed,

He was arrested in Borno state, at the Cameroon border, in the early hours of this morning. He's in the custody of security agencies in Borno.

He has been remanded into judicial custody until August 27,

He is in police custody in England at this time.

He is a good guy to have in our custody at this time.

When he receives assurances that he will have custody of his son.

Her husband would just walk right in her house. She told him to get out. I heard them yelling over custody of the kids.

He's been in custody almost six weeks. He'd loved to see his family.

He was in custody when our officers got there, ... There's no need for an investigation. We didn't lay a hand on him.

He was taken into custody because we wanted to put him on an electronic monitoring device.

He cooperated and was taken into custody without incident, as were all the others.

Juan Miguel is coming as soon as he receives the guarantee from the Justice Department and the INS that he's going to receive the custody of his boy,

It is absolutely essential for the legal system to evaluate every case on an individual basis in order to determine what the most beneficial custody situation would be, even if it sometimes goes against what is considered to be commonplace. After all, the final decision should always be what is truly in the best interests of the child.

I think what the detectives are looking to do is just basically enhance the chain of custody of that gun for evidentiary purposes.

I will reconsider my endorsement for Mr. Gore if he takes this political position, ... I do not think that this should be handled as a political matter. It is not a custody case, it is an immigration case. Our immigration laws are absolutely clear.

People are dying in US custody and no one's being held to account.

That cannot be tolerated, ... He violated our rules of procedures. I consider it the most serious violation of rule and order to place a prisoner in your custody and not inform the dispatcher. You put that person in a vulnerable position.

Let me just talk for a minute. Geraldo Rivera did a whole show about a custody battle that didn't exist. There were lies that went on all over the place, ... I did what I was supposed to do: I didn't talk. I shut up, shut up. Then, I was locked up. And while I was in here for six or seven months -- whatever it was -- I was told not to talk, again.

It does not disagree with my determination, it does not say that the boy cannot be reunited with his father in this country, and in fact the court said we need not decide where or in whose custody the plaintiff should remain while this appeal is pending.

I thought he was somewhat passive. I thought he should have been more aggressive in terms of custody issues.

The abuse of detainees in U.S. custody has severely undermined our Nation's position in the world.

That was restricted custody ... It's a place for the inmates who are out in the community (on work release). ... If you think about it, why would you build a secure perimeter around it when they're gone all day anyway?

We have been talking about a release of civilian and other prisoners, including fishermen, who are currently in the custody of Pakistan,

We are not ruling out the possibility that other individuals may be involved or that the individuals currently in custody may have committed other criminal acts,

The point, simply, is that we are doing more rediscovering these days than discovering coming anew upon truths that ignorant people refused to examine, over the centuries, because the wise people who held custody of the fundamental truths of nature were unpopular.

I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon.

The fact that the prosecutor hasn't told me what they are and wants him in custody before he tells me leads me to believe it includes state racketeering charges.

As complicated as joint custody is, it allows the delicious contradiction of having children and maintaining the intimacy of life-before-kid s.

Most of the people who were responsible for 9/11 are now in custody or have been killed. But there are others, and they plot and they plan, and they hope to pull it off again. And while we have to be right 100 percent of the time, they only have to be right once. So there's no way to overreact to that.

This shows that the cops were right on top of this. To have five people in custody already, that's pretty good. And now the big thing will be to see which of the five is going to flip on everybody else.

What's important about what we're doing is, we're helping protect America. We provide for safe custody of some men who would be very dangerous if they were free.

We all feel very strongly that Elian's life will be destroyed if he is sent to the custody of Fidel Castro in Cuba. That's what this is about, protecting this child from harm.

The reason he's in custody is because his visa has been cancelled. The reason his visa has been cancelled is because he's received an adverse security assessment,

There can be no excuse for the startling incompetence of the Home Office in allowing this man to escape custody before he has been deported. This would not have happened if it were not for this Government's incompetence.

We understand Japan plans to bring him there for medical treatment. Once he is there, he falls under Japanese-U.S. status policy. We intend to request custody when we have legal opportunity to do so.

We felt that this matter was so serious that only custody was suitable,

We currently have a total of five people in custody in relation to that investigation, but no charges as of yet have been laid,

Divorces are happening behind closed doors and the woman is banned from having custody of her children. She is being sent back to her home country to live with her relatives.

Custody and guardianship by the parent of his child does not arise under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States and is not dependent on them.

I sincerely apologize to you, Dr. Lee, for the unfair manner in which you were held in custody by the executive branch,

The ruling leaves the immediate question of Elian's custody back in the hands of the Justice Department. Reno is free to send marshals in to get the boy and reunite him with his father, but the court's decision may make it politically harder for her to order action because the Little Havana community believes it has won a big victory, and could become even more volatile if the feds try to remove Elian from Miami.

Salem would be brought here on a production warrant and we have asked for 14-day custody so that he could be interrogated properly.

After all, the chain of custody of these tapes is the one way to find bin Laden. He obviously feels secure enough that he can release a number of these tapes.

So this is a case where Padilla loses the round in court but actually gains some measure of freedom. Padilla wins by losing. He gets out of military custody now and presumably into an environment in some jail somewhere where he will have more complete access to his lawyers and a better chance not just to see the allegations against him but to prepare his own defense.

Apparently, security called us after they had already let the suspect go. Ideally, he should have been held in custody until police arrived, so he could be arrested.

The bottom line is, he's not in custody yet.

You might tell the teacher if Grandma is ill, or a move is coming, or if you are involved in a custody battle, so we can understand them better.

This center is for individuals who do not have custody of their children. The courts have been strong supporters of the center, which opened in 2000.

a man with no history of violence, a man who's never served a day in custody before this case.

They don't come into custody at all. They are interviewed and then placed into the program by the deputy assigned to do work release,

Abu Salem will be presented before the court and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will seek further police custody demand for a case pertaining to the Mumbai blasts in 1993.

It's extraordinary that the chain of custody of these tapes has not been traced back. After all, they're releasing these tapes very frequently, on average once every six weeks, yet it seems that American intelligence agencies or other intelligence agencies are not capable of tracing back the source of these tapes.

It was good police work by multiple agencies to get these suspects in custody as fast as they did,

It's not that the States will be forced to recognize marriages from Canada in the United States, but they'll be under increasing pressure in any number of circumstances -- child custody and property being the two most obvious -- to recognize those marriages,

Domestic violence is a criminal matter and needs to stay in criminal court, ... Too often, judges see charges of domestic violence as a ploy to get custody and send the case to family court.

Considering that this man has sworn repeatedly on the streets that he would not be taken alive, he would kill any law enforcement office or anyone who tried to take him, we consider ourselves very fortunate to have him in custody and that the came down peacefully.

The numbers were good at all of the custody banks and were driven by revenue in their asset management business.

It's still subject to dialogue between (Department of Foreign Affairs) and US government. Under VFA, we basically waived custody to US except in cases of importance to our country. In which case, we must justify importance within 20 days,

The best thing would be if the relatives in Miami ... would recognize that it would be in Elian's best interest and the family's best interest if there could be some kind of civilized and orderly unforced transfer of custody and they could work it out with the father,

The baby is fine and is now in the custody of Child Protective Services.

The attacks will resume in earnest and the three hostages in our custody as well as those we will capture in the next few days will not be released until our conditions are met.

No time as a party has the MDC engaged in some kind of undemocratic methods to remove the current government from power ... It is part of harassment against the opposition by this regime. I have no doubt that Mr. Bennett will be in police custody by the end of the day.

The investigation is ongoing but there's no one in custody right now.

I have no doubt that Mr. Bennett will be in police custody by the end of the day.

I'm told it is possible we are able to make progress on 6 October. I'm remanding you in custody for reasons given on previous occasions.