Mom in circumcision fight found, jailed

[Hepburn]

34. The issue is a legal issue at this point, not a medical one

Having practiced family law for a very long time -- now retired -- I am very familiar with parenting agreements and other agreements which become court orders and/or judgments.

What in fact has taken place is that the agreement has basically been reduced to a stipulated judgment. BY AGREEING WITH THE OTHER PARENT, SHE GAVE THE COURT THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THIS ORDER/JUDGMENT. After doing this, one cannot simply state that he/she changed his/her mind. It does not work this way.

Once you give up the authority to the higher power, usually you are done because there is nothing to appeal -- there is no court error on the issue since the parties agreed to a term of an order or judgment which the court approved and had the jurisdiction to order and enforce. By agreeing on this term, the parties in essence took away the jurisdiction of the court to determine the issue then as well as later.

The mother should not have agreed to the term IF she had doubts at all at the time the parenting agreement was formulated.

To me, it is not an issue about circumcision or no circumcision -- it is about someone having the right to make what he/she now feels is a bad decision and later having to live with it. Choices at times can be bad choices -- she simply is too late on this issue.

JMHO