A year or two ago an accountant prepared some spreadsheets for a case which divided assets but also extrapolated the income those assets would earn so we could very easily next address the maintenance issue by comparing the income from assets to the spouse’s budget. I was surprised to see that the CPA had imprinted...Read More

T.G. V. COMMONWEALTH, ___S.W.3d___(Ky.App. 2007) Mom appealed family court’s order terminating her parental rights to her infant daughter, A.J.M., and transferring her custody to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services with the authority to place her for adoption.Read More

Alabama Family Law Blog posts a series of articles about preparing for divorce: Step 1 – Find a Wise Guide Step 2 – Make an accounting of the family financesRead More

In response to our post here earlier this week on family litigants blogging, I received the following comment form Stephen Page, Brisbane, Australia. Stephen hosts the Australian Divorce Blog and Australian Gay and Lesbian Law Blog .Read More

The International Academy of Collaborative Professionals has released this response to the recent Colorado Ethics Opinion prohibiting the use of four-way agreements in collaborative practice. Thanks to the Family Law News Blog for this update.Read More

The 56 page Maryland decision in In Re Roberto d B. rendered last week can be found here. KRISTEN WYATT, Associated Press, Wednesday, May 16, 2007 writes: A surrogate mother who has no genetic connection to the baby she is carrying does not have to be listed as the mother on a birth certificate, Maryland’s...Read More

The digest follows for Nordike v. Nordike, 2004-CA-002242-MR, designated not to be published. Discretionary review was granted by Supreme Court 5/10/06 and oral arguments were held 5/17/07. You can read the briefs filed in the Kentucky Supreme Court here, courtesy of SCOKY Blog, via Chase Law School.Read More

What does Intellectual Property have to do with divorce law? Well, if it is property and it has value the IP belongs on the asset division spreadsheet. Mediator Victoria Pynchon has launched the new IP ADR Blog on which she posts about the value of domain names, And While You’re At It, Throw In The...Read More

It was bound to happen. Maybe it is not the first family law case to be blogged by a litigant, but it’s the first I have seen. I found it troubling to see a party to a pending case blogging his evidence on the internet. We assume judges read blogs. If I represented the opposing...Read More

T.G. v. Com. –S.W.3d—(Ky. App. 2007), Termination of parental rights. Issues and Holdings: 1. Whether KRS 625.090(1)(a)1 is constitutional. The Court held yes, if the statute is correctly applied. However, the family court did not correctly apply the statute. 2. Whether the family court’s findings under KRS 625.090 were supported by substantial evidence. The Court...Read More