The National Center for Family Law will be presenting the First National Family Law Symposium Sunday, September 16 – Tuesday, September 18, 2007 at the University of Richmond School of Law. It is designed for family law practitioners, judges, professors and mental health professionals interested in the law and social policies impacting families and children....Read More

The AAML annual meeting in Chicago was filled with the best yet CLE. I often return from these meetings feeling the material is indispensable; this year was over-the-top fabulous. I am not unaware of the furor in some circles about blogging the content of paid seminars over the internet. Of more concern to me is...Read More

Gay Donor or Gay Dad? by John Bowe is The New York Times Magazine November 19, 2006 cover story under the headline An Extended Nuclear Family? . “Gay men and lesbians are having babies – and redefining fatherhood, commitment and what a family can be.” The entire article is online and worth a read.Read More

A Case for Strengthening Marriage, By Hon. Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court The Washington Post, Monday, October 30, 2006; Page A17 is set out below in its entirety. In the coming weeks and months we will report on initiatives, some local, focusing on strengthening marriage, funded by new federal grants. The AAML...Read More

The High Conflict Pilot Project, about which we posted in April here, has revised its criteria. Initially there was to be a control group that received lesser services. Now, all families accepted into the program will receive the full benefit of all counseling services. They are accepting families that: (1) Have a divorce action pending,...Read More

The November Vanity Fair was called to my attention by a friend. I love that magazine, but can’t seem to find the time to read it often, so I don’t subsribe. I was delighted to find an online link to this article to share. Red State Babylon If the blue states are sinkholes of moral...Read More

“As soon as the divorce papers are served, the asset shuffling begins. It’s amazing what angry spouses try to do–and what they can get away with” is the distressing title of an article the November 13, 2006 edition of Forbes, published online last week. A correction to the article: the third edition of Equitable Distribution...Read More

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