An interesting and sad husband/putative father custody case is pending in Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division and in the Kentucky Court of Appeals.Read More

Benjamin Cowgill, Lexington, Kentucky, is the former Chief Bar Counsel for the Kentucky Bar Association, where he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of all disciplinary cases against members of the bar. He has also taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.Read More

Bridging the divide between lawyers and mediators is the title of a series of articles Diane Levin is publishing at Online Guide to mediation. Part 1: valuing the rule of law was interesting. Part 2: what mediators can do for lawyers is indispensable reading for mediators to know what we should expect of them.Read More

The ABA Child Custody and Adoption Pro Bono Project will award directed grants supporting the delivery of legal services to children in custody cases. Pro bono programs, legal service programs, children’s law centers, law-school clinics, court programs, and similar organizations are invited to apply. The focus for the 2007 grants is Lawyers and Law Schools...Read More

single issue monetized shuttle no intake lawyer controlled mediation is the title of a post by Victoria Pynchon at Settle It Now Negotiation Blog. It links to Representing Clients Effectively in Negotiation, Conciliation and Mediation in Family Property Disputes by Prof. John Wade. This article isn’t news.Read More

Jeanne Hannah at Updates In Michigan Family Law has written more on this topic than anyone in the blawgospehere: Parentage Issues: Here We Go Again! Why We Need a Federal Putative Father Registry Acknowledgments of Parentage: Can They Protect Parent-Child Relationships? Barnes v Jeudevine: How to Deprive a Child of a Father Can a putative...Read More

The civil case of Denzik v. Denzik, 197 S.W.3d 108 (Ky., 2006) digested here permitted damages to recoup child support payments by a husband who turned out not to be the bio-dad.Read More

Michael Stevens of Kentucky Law Blog comments:Family law is tough because the choices hard, the emotions high, and the consequences grave for all concerned. First, the mother presumably knows or would have reason to suspect the paternity of the child is not conclusive just because of the presumption of conception during wedlock.Read More

Please note: I am updating this post as comments are received, so check back for updates. This is turning out to be a very interesting discussion. There are many thoughtful comments to the Who’s Your Daddy? post that I would like to highlight, so they are not overlooked. Would anyone like to weigh in on...Read More

On April 19, 2007 the Kentucky Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers will welcome back James A. Hennenhoefer, Vista, CA, the President-Elect of the AAML. He will speak this year on Representing the Economically Disadvantaged Spouse. Also back by popular demand is Norman D. Levin, an AAML Fellow from Orlando, FL who will...Read More