The Kentucky Family Law Network, Inc. now has a membership application posted on its website as well as the registration form for the Advanced Collaborative Divorce Practice presentation November 1, 2006 featuring Pauline H. Tessler, J.D. and Peggy Thompson, Ph.D. KCFN membership is open to attorneys, financial professionals and mental health professionals who have, inter...Read More
As the Michigan legislature considers a bill that would presume equal parenting time of children when both parents reside in the same school district, Jeanne Hannah at Updates In Michigan Family Law posts about the proposed legislation. I like how she links to newspaper coverage, the bill in question, position papers from two Michigan Bar...Read More
Ann Hartwell Britton has published an article entitled “Bones of Contention: Custody of Family Pets” in the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Vol. 20, 2006, No. 1.Read More
John Walsh, CEO of the Morton Center, an alcohol treatment center in Louisville,KY will retire next year. John co-founded the Morton Center in 1984. Over the years he became an indispensable resource to family law practitioners. If substance abuse was a concern for a child’s safety, we could always count on John to objectively assess...Read More
“The 2006 Judicial Forum will be held on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at the Seelbach Hilton Hotel, Louisville, KY from 11.30 am to 3.00 pm. The Forum’s partnering sponsors include the Women Lawyer’s association of Jefferson County, the Louisville Bar Association, the National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section, the Junior League of Louisville, the...Read More
When clients ask whether it matters who files for divorce first, we generally say that divorce lasts a long, long time, and no one should file first to get a leg up. We may add that if a case goes to trial, there is a school of thought that the rule of primacy favors a...Read More
After the Kentucky Court of Appeals decided Blue v. Blue, 60 S.W.3d 575 (Ky. App. 2001), we wondered whether there were any circumstances that could cause an ante-nuptial agreement to be declared unconsionable. Now we have one. In an opinion rendered September 21, 2006, Lane v. Lane, the Kentucky Supreme Court reversed the Court of...Read More
Many people cannot afford a divorce. Pro se litigants are causing a huge strain on our judicial resources. Legal Aid is without the staffing and finances to help further. To its credit, Jefferson County , Kentucky Family Court has developed a set of forms for clerks to provide pro se litigants for post-divorce motions. New...Read More
Victoria Pynchon from Settle It Now Blog asks , Are We Trading Justice for Harmony? Addressing “those critics of ADR who claim that privatizing dispute resolution according to a set of norms that value cooperation over conflict is a subtle but pernicious form of social control, especially when the power relations between the disputing parties...Read More
