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

Thursday, September 14, at 10p.m. on PBS, Kids & Divorce: For Better or Worse will explore what parents and the legal system can do to minimize the negative impact of divorce on children. The one-hour television special will look at innovative approaches to divorce education, debate whether current custody laws should be changed, and will...Read More

My Trial Blog is chock full of trial practice tips. Check out some of the recent posts: Oops! I Forgot to Object!- Or, How Not to Lose your Appeal at Trial Direct Examination Doesn’t Have To Be Boring PowerPoint Examples from Leading Plaintiff’s LawyersRead More

Upon his retirement as Deputy Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, Hon. Martin E. Johnstone was interviewed by Daniel T. Goyette, Chief Public Defender for Louisville Metro/Jefferson County, KY. Justice Johnstone served over thirty years with distinction in every level of our state’s judiciary. The interview is published in the October, 2006 issue...Read More

Legal Aid still needs our help: “I am processing the most recent list of clients off the Uncontested Divorce List and need several volunteers to accept a case at this time. Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. They (clients) have been patiently waiting for a couple of months. Please consider assisting one...Read More