It seems there are a few misconceptions out there about the Louisville, KY contempt motion heard this week against the Kentucky Finance and Administration Cabinet. The Courier-Journal headline reads Lawyers Seeking Higher State Fees ‘There are 30 lawyers who represent children in abuse and neglect cases in Jefferson County’s 10 Family Court divisions, and 40...Read More
J. Benjamin Stevens at South Carolina Family Law Blog posts today the last of a weekly five-part series, 50 Ways Not To Leave Your Lover, written by Dr. Trey Kuhne a pastoral counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist with Pathways Pastoral Counseling in Spartanburg, SC. In the final post, he links to the first...Read More
Many a corporation owner argues that pass-through income from a subchapter S corporation should not be included for child support purposes because it is not distributed and therefore it is not an available source from which to pay child support. The Sub-S company usually distributes an amount equal to the estimated personal income taxes that...Read More
Law students and recent grads can go on to something else. For those of us who predate the internet, however, how to cite something found on the internet in a legal pleading can be perplexing. The Chicago Manual of Style Online offers helpful internet citation tips at the free Q & A section.Read More
The Family Law Prof Blog reports: “Many thought the U.S. Supreme Court had essentially settled this issue in 2000 when it ruled that Tommie Granville, a mother in Washington state, could limit to once a month her two girls’ contact with their paternal grandparents after the girls’ father had committed suicide. But the issue is...Read More
Empirical Forensic Model: Conjectures and Refutations by Timothy M. Tippins and Jeffrey P. Wittmann appeared in the New York Law Journal Online yesterday. The issue is not new, with the same authors writing about it last year. What we are not seeing are many Daubert challenges locally nor specific motions to delineate what the task...Read More
Watch with me as the Pacific Rim mediation conference unfolds in New Zealand NEXT September. I am no talent scout, but I have to say I am very impressed with Geoff Sharp’s mediation thinking and passion. I am tempted to lightly pencil it in the book, far flung as it may seem. Here’s the trailer...Read More
The New York Times published an article by Ralph Blumenthal last week about a lawsuit against a church therapist who disclosed the wife’s infidelities. The Texas Supreme Court is poised to consider the issue.Read More
