Ben Stevens in South Carolina posts the latest on Should Children in Foster Care Receive Help After Turning 18? at South Carolina Family Law Blog.Read More

Three recent law review articles are noted on Family Law Prof Blog: Dual Disciplinary Teaching, ADR and Representation of Children, and Making Divorce Work.Read More

Jeremy Morley at International Family Law reports: The abduction of children from the United States is facilitated by the lack of exit controls at U.S. borders. A lawsuit just filed in Massachusetts against Continental Airlines may help shift at least some of the responsibility onto the airlines.Read More

These days, to call law school a “trade school” is considered an insult to the establishment. Professors are firmly entrenched in their intellectual camps and pursue their academic agendas. Faculty members with “real world” experience are rarely hired on that basis alone–although it is quite common to hire professors who have clerked for judges but...Read More

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