I owe an apology to Pieter M. Droppert of New Jersey Family & Divorce Law Blog. He posted a comment which I tried to “approve” on a PDA. I was out of the office at the time, hobnobbing with Pauline Tessler and Peggy Johnson and the collaborative family law group when I saw the email...Read More

Posting of this new story does not imply endorsement. It goes against much of what my clients have told me over the years that their therapists have advised. Yet, it is interesting and on point to an intermittent series of posts that we will put up over the nest few weeks. I was going to...Read More

Reconciling the independence of the judiciary with election campaigning is very difficult. It was timely, then, that I discovered that the ABA litigation section now has RSS feed. When I subscribed, some older articles were delivered, including a poignant one, A Lawyer’s Letter To His Daughter, by H. Thomas Wells, Jr., Chair, Section of Litigation...Read More

Geoff Sharp (check out the clever animation) of Mediator Blah Blah has launched The Mediation vBlog Project at Mediation vBlog. The first post is a short into by Diane Levine of Online Guide To Mediation.Read More

On Monday the Kentucky Law Blog published a list of Court of Appeals family law decisions announced October 13, 2006. Kentucky Cases posted the Kentucky Court of Appeals October 27, 2006 minutes that very day, and posted here the minutes from October 20, 2006 and here the minutes from October 13, 2006.Read More

Last chance to register for tomorrow’s collaborative advanced training! Info and press release below. Even if you cannot attend the seminar, the public is invited to meet Pauline Tessler and Peggy Thompson at Sullivan University, 5-7 pm. Here are the details: Download kcfn_networking_event_poster.pdfRead More

What concerned me when I read the news stories about the New Jersey same-sex marriage case was that it was a 4-3 decision. I was worried that the court was so split on the rights due gay partners, that any change in balance of the composition of government would easily upend the decision. I am...Read More

I was tickled to read Online Guide To Mediation will be hosting Blawg Review on February 5, 2007. Our Blawg Review hosting has been postponed to March 26, 2007. I’ll tell you the reason a little later; it’s pretty funny. In any event it will be great fun and it’s great to have a deadline...Read More

In response to an October 22, 2006 Los Angeles Times article, Is Justice Served, Victoria Pynchon is posting a series of arbitration articles. The first is Does Arbitration Disserve Justice? It is followed by Arbitration v. Litigation.Read More

The summer 2006 Family Law Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 2, released last week, Symposium of Fathers and Family Law, is a must have volume for family law practitioners. $20 plus $3.95 postage will buy you a copy from ABA Service Center, 321 N. Clark St., Chicago, Il 60610.Read More