Marcia Oddi at Indiana Law Blog has been doing my work for me while I was on vacation with her post here quoting from the L.A. Times about a recent decision holding that unlike remarriage, a registered domestic partnership does not terminate alimony. State marriage laws say that alimony ends when the former spouse remarries,...Read More

Wireman v. Perkins (To be published)Read More

RHODES V. PEDERSON FAMILY LAW: ORDER ENTERED AFTER DEATH OF PARTY 2006-CA-000909 PUBLISHED: AFFIRMING PANEL: KELLER PRESIDING; COMBS, BUCKINGHAM CONCUR COUNTY: LYON DATE RENDERED: 7/6/2007Read More

PR and Law Firm Marketing was the video clip about blogs that was presented at the March, 2007 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers meeting and seminar at Grand Cayman, Island about which I posted here. President Gaetano Ferro gave me permission to post it, commenting that it was well received and deserved to be disseminated....Read More

In view of the chaotic state of paternity law across the country, I think the following law review article digests, compiled by Nancy Ver Steegh in her Annual Survey of Periodical Literature published in the Family Law Quarterly, Vol 40, No 4, Winter 2007 is helpful: Nancy E. Dowd, Fathers and the Supreme Court: Founding...Read More

Here is an interesting new Michigan case courtesy of Jeanne Hannah at Updates In Michigan Family Law.Read More

Plattner v. Plattner, Kentucky Court of Appeals, rendered: June 29, 2007Read More

You can read Hinson v. Commissioner, US Tax Court Summary Opinion 2007-92 (June 7, 2007) here. The code is quite clear that to be taxable income/tax deductible, alimony (maintenance) must terminate on the dearth of the payee.Read More

South Carolina adopted the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdication Act (UCCJEA) this month, bringing to 46 the number of states that have finally come onboard.Read More

The child support “goddess”, Laura Morgan, has a helpful article on her website Child Support Guidelines about interstate modification of child support which you can find here.Read More