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
“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
In written remarks accepting the Indiana Judges Association Award for reporting on the judiciary, Marcia Oddi gave a hint of things to come at the Indiana Law Blog. “What about the future? I could go on and on, but here is something of particular interest to this audience — I’d like to post more trial...Read More
Don’t like or understand RSS feeds? (icon at upper right) Don’t like or want FeedBlitz (email subscription on upper right) for each blog to which you subscribe? I love RSS feeds, so I have no interest in monkeying with this, but The Simply Headlines sounds promising. “SimplyHeadlines is a once a day email newspaper. You...Read More
Pauline Tesler and Peggy Thompson, the dynamic presenters who are coming to Louisville November 1, 2006 to teach an advanced interdisciplinary collaborative divorce program, appeared on the PBS show last night, Kids & Divorce: For Better or Worse. Their book released this year, Collaborative DivorceRead More
