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

Law.com reports partnership packages to protect gay couples are complicated and expensive.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

“Woman Beaten By Husband Wins Suit” was the headline of an MSNBC article, reporting on a $550,000 actual and punitive damage award to a domestic violence victim.Read More

Two More State Supreme Courts Uphold Grandparent Visitation Laws – Despite the Supreme Court’s Holding that They Can Be Unconstitutional is an online article by Joanna Grossman posted yesterday. In it she digests the recent Utah and Pennsylvania cases upholding grandparent visitation along with links to them, to Troxel and to other post-Troxel cases “Importantly,...Read More

The Kentucky committee reviewing dependency, abuse, neglect and quick trigger adoptions met last week. If you read the Courier Journal report and the Lexington Herald-Leader story, they hardly seem to be covering the same meeting.Read More