The Indiana Law Blog posted an excellent updated article on the status of citing unpublished opinions at the federal and state levels. Kentucky non-published opinions have long been available on Westlaw and have been online at the Court of Justice website for some time, so we did not have to address the transparency issue. There...Read More
There is always much printed this time of year about the stress of the holidays. The December 11, 2006 Time Magazine article A Better House Blend is an interesting article on this theme. “Holidays can be complicated for any family, but when children, stepchildren and new spouses are involved, things can get really crazy.” The...Read More
Victoria Pynchon has requested comments to her post, Mediation Abuses in Family Law. I see the problem frequently. Check out her post and let her hear from you! In browsing her ADR site and her negotiation site, Settle It Now Negotiation Blog, you’ll no doubt stumble upon some info that will make you wonder haw...Read More
A comment from a reader, Billy Riggs, lead us to Divorce Tunes and these very funny parodies: “To All The Girls I Could Have Loved” “Only You, That’s All You Think Of” “The Winds Between My Cheeks” “Are You Loathsome Tonight” “You Clog Up My Senses” “You Dried Up My Life” “I’m Gonna Hate You...Read More
It is much more interesting to post articles when they stimulate some discussion. The Legal Profession Blog, a member of the Law Professors Blog Network posted the following (you’ll have to go to their article to hit their links): “Update on Limited Representations: “Unbundling” Discrete Legal Tasks As a follow-up to our posts here and...Read More
It’s official: effective January 1, 2007, unpublished Appellate Opinions rendered after January 1, 2003 may be cited for consideration if there is no published opinion on point. Section (4)(c) of CR 76.28 will read:Read More
Storm v. Mullins, 199 S.W.3d 156 (Ky., 2006) Issues and Holdings: 1. Whether the consent to custody form, signed by the mother, was sufficient to establish the mother’s consent to the paternal grandparents’ adoption of the children. The Supreme Court held that such form was not sufficient. 2. Whether the one-year statute of limitations period...Read More
In an important decision last week, Janet Miller-Jenkins v. Lisa Miller-Jenkins, the Virginia Court of Appeals held that Virginia must give full faith and credit under the federal Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act to a custody determination made by a Vermont court growing out of a Vermont civil union. The opinion determined that DOMA did not...Read More
Com., Cabinet for Health & Family Services ex rel. M.H. v. R.H., 199 S.W.3d 201 (Ky.App., 2006) Issue and Holding: Whether the doctrine of issue preclusion applied to bar the Cabinet from introducing evidence of prior sexual abuse perpetrated against siblings of the infant by the parents at an adjudication hearing regarding the removal of...Read More
Janet Jangjhar’s Florida Divorce Law Blog has a number of very interesting recent posts: A Close-up Look at Routine Bans on Travel with Children of Failed Relationships Is There Such a Thing as Gay Divorce Outside Massachusetts?Read More
