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

While we are posting about depositions, check out Deposition Misbehavior from The Law Profs Blog. It could get you suspended.Read More

This is a very long post, but I think even very experienced litigators will enjoy it. Most of it is below the fold so you can click “continue reading…” as you have time to take it in, or come back to it before you take your next deposition. Vicki Pynchon has been sharing tips for...Read More

The ABA has just published The Family Lawyer’s Guide to Stock Options by Lester Barenbaum, Walter Schubert, and Robert Feder Here is the ABA’s description of the book: From valuation to taxation and distribution, “The Family Lawyer’s Guide to Stock Options” provides practice-focused guidance on handling all issues involving employee stock options in a divorce...Read More

SCOKY Blog has posted the briefs here in the teacher’s retirement case, Shown v. Shown, about which we posted here. Oral arguments are set June 14, 2007.Read More

The Indiana Law Blog published Litigants Blogging, quoting from a Boston Globe article today and linking in an update to a Wall Street Journal blog about the story.Read More

For the first time, Super Lawyers has published a Kentucky directory, listing who it believes are the top five percent of the state’s 14,000 attorneys based on peer recognition and professional achievement. Not surprisingly, ten of the twelve family lawyers selected are Fellows of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers: Mitchell A. Charney, Sandra M....Read More