Shown v. Shown, ___S.W.3d__ (Ky. 2007) PUBLISHED: REVERSING PANEL: SCOTT PRESIDING; MINTON, NOBLE AND SCHRODER CONCURRING; CUNNINGHAM CONCURRING IN RESULT ONLY; ABRAMSON NOT SITTING COUNTY: OHIO DATE RENDERED: 9/20/2007Read More

Over lunch a few years ago at an ABA Family Law Section meeting in Seattle, I remember Mark Chinn singing the praises of his business coach, Atticus. You can hear Mark Chinn and Mark Powers of Atticus in a telephone seminar on Wednesday, September 26.Read More

We are going to try to get you the new “to be published” family law cases sooner than in the past. Digests will follow, but here are the three Court of Appeals cases released today and one Supreme Court decision from yesterday, in case you want to link to the entire opinions. M.B. v. V....Read More

Here is the seminar agenda for the AAML Chicago meeting: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2007 8:30 – 9:45 a.m. Topic: “IMPAIRMENT AFFECTING THE CLIENT LITIGATOR, Or SELF INCLUDING BIPOLAR DISORDER, DEPRESSION, BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER and SUBSTANCE ABUSE (Prescription Drugs, Designer Drugs, Street Drugs and alcohol)” Speaker: Barbara Nunneley Hurst, TX 9:45 – 10:15 a.m. PANEL DISCUSSION...Read More

Baird v. Baird, ___S.W.3d__ (Ky. App. 2007)Read More

A Referee for Mom and Dad: Increasingly, Divorced Couples Enlist Professionals to Help Resolve Parenting Disputes is the title of the article by Rachel Emma Silverman in the Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2007; Page D1 (subcription required for online access).Read More

Shively v. Shively,___S.W.3d___(Ky. App. 2007)Read More

The 2008 date for Idea Festival previously posted were pulled from its website, but apparently an old version lingering out in cyberspace. Embarrassing long story short, Stephanie West Allen received a comment from a reader, passed it on to me, I called the Idea Festival office, so now you have the correct dates.Read More

All 224 pages of Maryland’s highest court decision in Conaway v. Deane that there is no fundamental right to marry someone of the same sex, that same sex orientation is not a suspect or quasi-suspect class, that denial of same sex marriage is not a violation of equal protection and that denial of the right...Read More

The day after the Kentucky Supreme Court held oral arguments on two paternity cases as we reported here, the Michigan Court of Appeals decided Brooks v. Brooks.Read More