First coaches for lawyers, now coaches for the clients of the lawyers is the title of a post from Idealawg. “Most of us are familiar with the idea of lawyers hiring coaches to help them with goals in business development or time management or career navigation. But how about clients hiring coaches to help them...Read More

The National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws has a valuable website for legal research, www.nccusl.org, to which all the uniform acts are posted, as is the legislative history of each of the acts by state, and all the comments to the uniform acts. I learned of this on the ABA Family Law Section...Read More

Gaskill v. Robbins, NO. 2005-CA-002088-MR, http://opinions.kycourts.net/coa/2005-ca-002088.pdf, was decided December 8, 2006 in an Opinion Reversing and Remanding which is designated to be published. The custody determination and business value determined by Warren Family Court Judge Margaret Ryan Huddleston were reversed and remanded for a new trial.Read More

The Indiana Law Blog posted an excellent updated article on the status of citing unpublished opinions at the federal and state levels.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