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New custody protections for troops

December 16, 2014

When Kentucky guardsman Eva Slusher returned from her stateside deployment in 2004, she was welcomed home with news that she had lost custody of her daughter.

A decade later, she finally has hope that no service member will ever have to go through that again.

Tucked into this year’s annual defense authorization bill passed by Congress late last week is a provision preventing state judges from using military deployments against troops in child custody cases.

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