As family courts struggle with huge caseloads and as a movement to informalize procedure gains ground, Family Law Prof Blog has this to say about Elkins v. Superior Court (California Supreme Court, August 6, 2007) The California Supreme Court has invalidated a county court rule that required divorce trials be submitted on written declarations and...Read More

Calfee v. Cabinet for Health and Family Services and Tammy AquilianRead More

Kleet v. KleetRead More

Parties to mediation blogging about the mediation should come as no surprise, on the heels of litigants blogging, as we reported here, here, and here.Read More

Can This Marriage Be Saved? by Laurie Abraham is the New York Times Magazine’s feature story August 12, 2007, online here, A year in the life of a couples-therapy group. Some quotes: When Coché lists the virtues of the group over other forms of therapy, she cites the “Greek chorus” effect, a term that captures...Read More

Kentucky Supreme Court oral arguments are set for August 15, 2007 in Gripshover v. Gripshover, which we digested here. You will have to scroll down to “Marital Property” to read the digest, as that was posted when we were catching up on all 2005 Kentucky Court of Appeals decisions, as this blog wasn’t in existence...Read More

Family Law Prof Blog directs us to a new twist on the third party bio-dad of a child born during a marriage. What name should the child have? In the Matter of the Change of Name of L.M.G., (South Dakota August 8, 2007) , found here, Prof.Read More

The Protection Battered Spouses Don’t Need is the title caption of a New York Times Op-Ed piece this week, online here. From the article by Radha Iyenga, a fellow in health policy research at Harvard, TWO decades ago, in an effort to curb domestic violence, states began passing “mandatory arrest” laws.Read More

New York Divorce Report directs us to posts about recent decisions in Virginia, Oregon and California.Read More

When I read Wireman v. Perkins, digested here, I thought the underlying constitutional questions were interesting. While not mentioning this recent Kentucky decision about religious upbringing of children in the child custody context, scholar Eugene Volokh’s analysis here of constitutional issues in custody questions indicate the Kentucky Court of Appeals reached the correct result.Read More