Court holds that parents do not have to be found unfit for state to be granted custody of out of control mentally ill child, an interesting post from LawReader re a Washington decision.Read More

Check out Beyond googling: More and more, lawyers are using social networking sites as litigation tools at Indiana Law Blog. We routinely Google. Guess it’s time to get with the times and add Facebook and MySpace.Read More

AOC News: Court information now available to victims through VINE Court Service from Kentucky Law Review. From the press release: For 12 years the safety of victims and the acronym VINE have gone hand in hand in Kentucky. Now that protection has extended beyond the confines of the jail cell, when offenders are released from...Read More

From The Family Law Profs Blog last week: California Governor Schwarzenegger Vetoes Gay Marriage Bill Call for Papers: Yale Law Journal Pocket PartRead More

From Charlie Abut at New Jersey Family Law: The wife was not eligible for the benefits of “Innocent Spouse” treatment under Internal Revenue Code Section 6015. Thus, the tax penalties, interest and liabilities in question were not solely attributable to the husband. The wife was deemed to have had actual knowledge of the understatements of...Read More

The title of the post says it all.Read More

Andrea Schneider at Marquette University Law School has a forthcoming article with disconcerting but not surprising conclusions, What Family Lawyers are Really Doing When They Negotiate. From the abstract: After discussing what skills are needed for effective negotiation behavior, the Article then looks more closely at how family lawyers in particular are negotiating.Read More

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children announces: The International Missing Children’s Division of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is very pleased to announce the creation of a practitioner’s guide to litigating Hague Convention cases. The manual, “Litigating International Child Abduction Cases Under the Hague Convention,” was prepared by the law...Read More

Lohman v. Carnahan, online, decided September 19, 2007 by the Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal. held where the husband and wife have decided to raise the child of their marriage and to accept all the rights and responsibilities of parenthood, a man who may have contributed his DNA to the child has no statutory...Read More

None of the Court of Appeals “to be published” opinions released today are family law related.Read More