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

Following the digest of Keenan v Dawson, Michigan Court of Appeals Docket No 265725, decided June 5, 2007, Updates In Michigan Family Law gives some great practice pointers in handling grandparent visitation cases.Read More

Many equitable division states, including Kentucky, do not have an automatic equal division of marital property. Rather, marital property is divided in just proportions. Generally where wealth is involved, the greater the estate earned by the working spouse, the less likely the non-working spouse will receive 50%, particularly when their are no children.Read More

Michigan is struggling with the same paternity challenges as Kentucky. Updates In Michigan Family Law reports:Read More

Justia Legal Resources follows more than 1800 legal blogs, covering many legal fields. This week Divorce Law Journal ranks #1 among the family law blogs out of 52 total, and #58 among all 1845 legal blogs. I don’t track their rankings regularly but I was pleased to see this. I don’t claim to know how...Read More