European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 15 a Federal Law is meant to protect service members by staying civil court actions during military and yet service members children can be and Are from them after they Are for military a War on two fronts by Pauline Arrillaga the associated press she had raised her daughter for six years following the shuttling to soccer practice and cheer making sure schoolwork was then Eva Crouch was mobilized with the Kentucky National and Sara went to stay with a year and a half her assignment Crouch pulled into her driveway with one thing in Home the Little girl who shared her smile and Blue she dialled her sex and said shed be there the next Day to pick Sara but his response sent her not without a court order you within a a judge decided that Sara should stay with her it he in the Best interests of the what happened Crouch was the Legal residential caretaker this was Only sup posed to be what had changed she want a drug or an or an abusive her Only it was answer ing the Call to serve her Crouch and an unknown number of oth ers among the single parents in uniform fight a War on two fronts for the nation they Are sworn to and for the children they Are losing because of that a Federal Law called the servicemen Bers civil Relief act is meant to protect them by staying civil court actions and administrative proceedings during military they cant be Credi tors cant seize their civilian health if suspended during de must be and yet service members children can be and Are being taken from them after they Are some family court judges say that deter mining whats Best for a child in a custody Case is simply not comparable to deciding civil property disputes and the like they have ruled that family Law Trumps the fed eral Law protecting even some supporters of the Federal Law say it should be changed that sol Diers should be assured that they can re gain custody of military mothers and fathers speak of birthdays Bonds end less they Are people like Marine Levi helping to fight the insurgency in at the same time he Battles for custody of his son in a Kansas family i feel really Carlson the some lies in amending the Federal Law to specify that it does apply in custody some states Arent waiting for congressional in California enacted a Law saying a parents absence due to military activation cannot be used to justify permanent changes in custody or Michigan and Kentucky followed Courtesy of Bradley requiring that temporary army reservist Bradley Carlson holds a sign celebrating changes made because of deployment revert Back to the original agreement once deployment similar legislation son Dirks 9th birthday on april while Carlson was deployed to Kuwait in a Luxembourg court awarded custody of his three children to his who had moved has been proposed in Texas and North when Crouch was mobilized Back in her wanted 9yearold Sara with they Drew up a temporary moved Saras Charles says his daughter expressed a de sire to stay with she liked her had made new i had no intention of trying to talk her into staying or he All i wanted was what was Best for my Daugh last the state supreme court cited Kentucky new Law in overturning the trial judges decision granting custody to last Eva Crouch got Sara remarried Crouch is expecting an other baby this but with 18 years in the she knows she could be mobilized one thing is Clear to her now serving her country int Worth los ing her i cant leave my child she wound up at fort the fortunate assignment allowed her to visit Sara most but when the time came for Sara to return to her like Mike Grantham of the Iowa National whose two kids lived with him until he was mobilized to train troops after Ajjia up a  Iii Veu Tarai and like army Reserve capt Brad car and Crouch headed out fighting for custody of his amen to Iraq she thought can born children after his marriage crumbled while he was deployed and his european wife refused to return to the and he Eva who spent two years and some pushing her Case through the Kentucky id have spent a she my child was my i go serve my and i come Back and have to go through hell and High in during world War the supreme court held that the soldiers re Lief Law should be liberally construed to protect those who have been obliged to drop their own affairs to take up the Bur Dens of the shielding soldiers allows them to de vote their entire Energy to the nations de the Law itself but child custody cases Are army reservist Brad Carlson lived in Phoenix with his and three kids before deploying to Kuwait in a year his wife indicated she wanted to end the marriage and remain in Lux where she had moved the family and where her parents Carlson filed for divorce in and later invoked the service members but in a Luxembourg court awarded custody to Eva a member of the Kentucky National poses with her at Crouch August 2006 wedding to her second far right Eva Crouch holding a photo of Courtesy of