F&F: West Virginia Supreme Court: False Allegations of Abuse Can Terminate Rights

Article here. Excerpt:

'With any luck, this case will be a harbinger of things to come. Here’s an article about the case (The West Virginia Record, 4/24/11).

By itself, it’s not definitive regarding fathers’ rights in custody matters, but it points a direction in which I suspect courts will go more and more in future cases. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court of West Virginia ruled that false allegations of child abuse can be used to terminate custodial rights.

Now, the reasons the decision doesn’t control fathers’ rights is that it involves grandparents. Likewise, it’s based only in part on their false allegations of abuse. Still, the reasoning is there to give falsely accused parents a leg up in custody cases.'