Kudos to Oldham County Attorney John Fendley was honored as Kentucky’s top child support contracting official for the fourth consecutive year. The state government press release is reprinted below in its entirety. Thanks to Mike Stevens of the Kentucky Law Blog for sending this over. “The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services honored child...Read More

Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips Blog site of the week is the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility’s online resource center. Jim says “(T)he ABA Center for Professional Responsibility homepage provides free ethics and professionalism resources for lawyers, such as an online version of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, links to many ethics and professionalism...Read More

Ten Mistakes Even Good Mediators Make is post from Mediator Blah Blah and is well worth reading. Geoff Sharp, the author of this blog, knows his stuff. He credits New York attorney Stephen A. Hockman for the list, but adds nice links to illustrate the rationale behind many of the rules.Read More

While beyond the scope of this blog. the Indiana Law Blog published last evening Judicial Surveys Vex the Bench, offering comment and a link at the end to a number of other posts on the politics of electing and appointing judges. It is must reading for those interested in the politics surrounding our judiciary, and...Read More

While I am not a proponent of electing our judges, with all Kentucky Family Court Judges facing election in November, the following post from Baton Rouge is timely. Many of our candidates will get less press. What is it that voters need to know to make informed decisions? I think a judge sitting in family...Read More

Retired Kentucky Supreme Court Justice Martin E. Johnstone’s comments in the Louisville Bar Briefs which cite the challenges blogs pose to the judiciary were directed at political blogs and not legal blogs, I am pleased to report. Further, he is most interested in participating in a forum to air concerns of the bench and the...Read More

In cases where both parents care for the children half the time and both earn equal incomes, there usually isn’t a need for fixed child support, only an agreement for the division of agreed upon expenses. These arrangements are rare. In other cases our clients often want to make agreements for something other than fixed...Read More

Yesterday we posted the new Rules of Practice of Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division and its new website. Today LawReader posts links to: Other Kentucky Court Family Law websites Administrative Office of the Courts forms available onlineRead More

Janet Janghahr’s Florida Divorce Law Blog: reports: “An adoption agency notified a biological father that his baby was going to be adopted. That was how the biological father allegedly first learned of the child’s existence. By that time, the baby was two months old and had been living since he was three days old with...Read More

New Family Court Rules of Practice, Jefferson Circuit Court, Kentucky, became effective September 2, 2006. Click on the link at the end for a .pdf copy. If anyone has a redlined version, I would be glad to post so it would be easier to ascertain the new information within the 116 pages of rules. Obvious...Read More