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

Check out this ABA tele-seminar June 19, 2007, noon-1:30, Eastern time, Fact Or Fiction: Is Child Sexual Abuse Often Alleged in Custody Cases?Read More

International Family Law News And Analysis is a new blog that we are welcoming to our blogroll. Some sample posts since it went live in March, 2007: New group says immigration laws tear families apart 6 nations join Hague Convention on Child AbductionRead More

Even in countries who are signatories to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, parental abduction can be difficult to remedy. Consider this post from International Family Law: South Africa’s Court of Appeal has blasted the failure of the courts below to order the prompt return of a child, now aged five, who was wrongfully...Read More