Bookmark the ABA’s Children’s Rights Litigation Case Notes archive. I learned of the archive from the ABA litigation section RSS feed. It will be nice when all these pages have such feeds, but until then you who need to stay up on children’s rights issues know where to check in.Read More

A few lawyers in Kentucky may know as much about family law as retired Chief Judge Richard A. Revell, but none knows more. What is so fascinating about this field of law is the constant movement within it reflecting our changes in society. The seminar at the Louisville Bar Association last Friday was spectacular not...Read More

Collaborative divorce offers parties privacy, one of the reasons Roy Disney (of the Disney fortune) is choosing the collaborative process, according to this article in The Republican. This, most likely, will be all that the public hears in the media about the divorce until the Disneys’ final judgment is entered in court some months from...Read More

It is difficult enough to keep track of the “to be published” decisions. Yet here is the digest of this “not to be published” decision as the Kentucky Supreme Court has accepted discretionary review. Pennington v. Marcum, 2006 WL 2194903 (Ky. App.) Issues and Holdings:Read More

Thanks to Kentucky Cases for giving the “heads up” on Navigating Emotional Roadblocks for Effective Mediation set for April 17, 2007 in Lexington, KY. It is bound to be a fabulous program, featuring Dr. Dan Shapiro, associate director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, and author of Beyond Reason: Listening To Emotions As You Negotiate.Read More

Collaborative Family Law Center Announced by Chief Judge in New York City is the post by Pauline Tessler at Collaborative Divorce Newsblog, in which she quotes from a New York Times story earlier this week. In New York Divorce Report, Daniel E.Read More

Senate Bill 140 (Study feasibility of voluntary acknowledgement-of-paternity registry): Introduced by Sen. Richard L. Roeding on February 8, 2007. Passed in the Senate (35 to 0) on February 26, 2007, to direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to appoint a panel, which may include members of the blue ribbon panel on adoption, to...Read More

Denzik v. Denzik, about which we reported here and digested here, permitted a husband to recoup child support payments many years later, in a civil action for damages, when he was found not to be the biological father of the child born during the marriage. Where will it end? Who knows, but now the Court...Read More

Jefferson (KY) Circuit Court, Family Division has scheduled upcoming committee meetings and notified attorneys on their list by email. Since I do not know whether the judges will be accompanied by their sheriffs, I did not include the location of each meeting. If you are interested in attending, the contact info is noted. The Family...Read More