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

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