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

The product discussed by Dave Hofman at Concurring Opinions really isn’t insurance but an investment product that pays out at a specific date in the future, or upon divorce, whichever first occurs. He posts: The externality problem seemed so severe that I decided to go to the source, and emailed John Logan about his product....Read More

A recent Missouri case holds that a party seeking to enforce a prenup must raise the issues in a pleading. Failure to do so prevents the court from enforcing the prenup. Homan v. Holman, which can be found here. In pleading to a preceding pleading, a party shall set forth all applicable affirmative defenses and...Read More

You can register here for the American Bar Association October 10-13, 2007 meeting in Memphis. This is the line-up:Read More

Jefferson Circuit Court Family division will hold a divorce committee meeting on August 7, 2007 at Noon, in the Crown Room. The principal topic of discussion will be a revision of the Mandatory Case Disclosure.Read More

The link for info on the National Center for Family Law’s First National Family Law Symposium: State of the Family 2007 can be found here. The University of Richmond School of Law and Virginia CLE have combined their resources to provide a national symposium on family law that will bring together family law attorneys, GALs...Read More

Because discussion is circulating that the Court of Appeals may be moved to publish this case, we are digesting it for you. Christian v. Clemente (unpublished)Read More