Marcia Oddi at Indiana Law Blog posts today Judge halts public access to Shine divorce papers, linking to the story from the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette. “A special judge has sealed the divorce filings of Allen County Republican Party Chairman Steve Shine.” She has reported a number of similar stories over the last few years...Read More

Carole Levitt and Mark Rosch, authors of The Lawyer’s Guide To The Internet, have a lenghty article published at Law.com last week, Internet Research Digs Up Private Matters, covering private facts that are public record and general investigative tips. As some may recall, this tech duo presented The Cybersleuth’s Guide To The Internet in Louisville...Read More

Part Two of Digging Deeply Into Matrimonial Data Mining, reprinted from the Matrimonial Strategist, is now available online at Law.com.Read More

Stan Billingsly at LawReader requested that we post the law on this fact situation: an unmarried pregnant woman wants to know if the father of her unborn child is responsible for the expenses of her pregnancy and how does she obtain reimbursement if he refuses to pay? KRS 406.011 obligates the father to pay the...Read More

Small Talk and Separate Caucuses highlights the importance of joint initial mediation sessions and the perils of shuttle mediation. Check it out. It takes a very skilled mediator to hold it together, but isn’t that what we want, very skilled mediators?Read More

New Year’s goal setting has been a ritual for more than 30 years for me. First, I buy a lovely new hard bound journal. Then, I think. Then, I brainstorm with a very close friend or two. Next, I put pen to paper. The process consumes much of the month of January, but I look...Read More

As we were pondering our past and setting goals for our future, Richard D. Shapero died yesterday at age 63. He will always be remembered for taking the Kentucky Bar Association to the United States Supreme Court, which resulted in a significant opinion striking down bar restrictions on lawyer advertising. Shapero v. Kentucky Bar Association,...Read More

New Zealand has had a family court for 25 years. Here’s a video interview from Geoff Sharp at the V-Blog Mediation Project. You will find interesting that family court judges there participate in mediation and occasionally include children. Her Honour Judge Jill Moss, a leading judge of NZ’s specialist Family Court and advocate of mediation...Read More

Mediators Without Borders has perfect pitch on the timing of its launch.Read More

Spencer v. Spencer, 191 S.W.3d 14 (Ky.App. 2006)Read More