Here’s hoping the legislature can wrap up Senate Bill 140 (Study feasibility of voluntary acknowledgement-of-paternity registry, inter alia) when it reconvenes later this month. The history is below the fold:Read More

Randall v. Stewart, a to be published decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals found here held that a girlfriend who did not live with her boyfriend could not obtain the protection of a domestic violence order against him. The digest:Read More

The Colorado Bar Association Ethics committee has issued an opinion, not yet formally published, that collaborative family law is per se unethical when the agreement calls for disqualification of the attorneys if the matter must be litigated. Further, a client cannot validly consent in advance to the withdrawal of his/her lawyer in the event the...Read More

Law Firms Pitch Themselves As the Divorced Guy’s Guys by Ann Carrens last week at The Wall Street Journal reports on the trend of law firms selling themselves as “father’s rights” lawyers and the Cordell & Cordell firm in particular. We have none (yet) in Louisville.Read More

Register online for The Role of the Lawyer in Relation to the Client: Boss, Humble Servant, or Dr. Phil?,Read More

The LBA Family Law Section is offering a divorce tax seminar on March 28, 11am-1pm and you can register here.Read More

If you are new to DLJ or if you have not toured the complete site in awhile, I would like to tell you about some features. You can subscribe by email at the upper right corner. Each day you will receive an email listing the posts from the previous day.Read More

Last year we posted on Getting A Get here. Some quotes from an article by Lisa J. Huriash at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and then an editorial opposing. Observant women need their husbands to grant them a divorce.Read More

I have seen several articles recently reporting how difficult it can be to retrieve a child who has been abducted by a parent to Japan. See, for example, a page at the U.S.Read More

The cost of conflict: what happens when we frame divorce as combat is the title of a nice post by Diane Levin at Online Guide To Mediation. She was successfully able to put into words (and much more politely than I could have) some of my thoughts when I read about the book to which...Read More