“The Supreme Court of Canada sent a warning to divorced parents on Monday that they better come clean when their income goes up, or they could face sizable retroactive child support bills, ” reports the Family Law Prof Blog. “The Supreme Court stopped short of ordering a duty to disclose salary increases automatically, but the...Read More

The first meeting of the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services’ panel on adoption is scheduled for next week. The meeting will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 7, in the music room of the Berry Hill Mansion, 700 Louisville Road, Frankfort, KY. The meeting is open to the public. The...Read More

“The Supreme Court of Massachusetts held that the trial court’s decision was not an abuse of discretion. The court cited a number of authorities from other states, and a number of law review articles on the subject, along with the ALI Principles. The court observed that:Read More

Practitioners need to be reminded occasionally that Family Courts are courts of equity as well as of law, as The South Carolina Family Law Blog reports the case of Buckley v. Shealy.Read More

Much ado has been made over the Kentucky Supreme Court footnote 16 in Lisa Baker v. Ernie Fletcher, but on June 15, 2006, (now final) it appears that another gratuitous footnote was made. In B.F. v. T.D., the same-sex custody case based on the defacto custodian statute, at footnote 1, the court says “We also...Read More

I came across California Supreme Court Pending Civil Cases Blog, and thought what a great idea. It is very helpful for practitioners to know particular issues of law are before a state’s highest court, the outcome of which may change the law in other cases at the trial court level. Denise Howell’s Bag and Baggage...Read More

Florida Divorce Law Blog posts on a pending lawsuit, Can Boy Born to Married Parents Compel Bio Mom to Disclose Bio Dad After Legal Dad Ruled Out? “After his parents’ divorce, the boy resided primarily with his legal father – the then-husband of the boy’s biological mother.(In many states, including Florida, the man married to...Read More

A unique new book from the ABA Section of Family Law –Here’s their announcement: Assisted Reproductive Technology: A Lawyer’s Guide to Emerging Law and Science By Charles P. Kindregan, Jr. and Maureen McBrien http://www.abanet.org/abapubs/books/5130139Read More

Divorce after Death? Not in PA, a lower court has ruled. For stories on this case, see: Indiana Law Blog, “A man can no more be divorced after he is dead than he can be married or condemned to death. Marriage is the union of two lives which can be dissolved either by death or...Read More

The ABA Section of Family Law has adopted Civility Standards which apply to clients, to the court, and to opposing counsel.Read More