Although federal college financial aid amounted to $90 billion in 2004-2005, colleges provided $24 billion of their own money, and their treatment of stepparent income and non custodial income varies significantly. Some consider only the resources of biological or adoptive parents, some consider stepparent income only in the custodial household, and some collect income information...Read More

LawReader announces the formation of the American Association of Internet Journalists. Members willing to subscribe to its aspirational code of ethics are invited. After reading Indiana Law Blog,and the journal article to which it links, I better understood some of the rationale inspiring this goundbreaking move to form an association with foundations of good journalism....Read More

“The Michigan supreme court reversed the court of appeals’ decision in Barnes v Jeudevine, in an opinion released on July 26, 2006. Docket No. 129606. As a result, Barnes, who filed an action seeking a determination of paternity of a child conceived while the child’s mother was married to another man—a child whom he co-parented...Read More

Louisville Magazine , July, 2006 issue, has a nice piece on the innovations in Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Divisions as well as the challenges facing it.Read More

There are two good posts on a new collusive divorce case, one from Updates in Michigan Family Law and the other from the Family Law Prof Blog.Read More

Jeanne Hannah posted an article about the Washington State supreme court’s 5-4 decision today banning same-sex marriage on Updates in Michigan Family Law. This article contains links to the majority opinion, 2 concurring opinions, the dissent and 2 opinions concurring in the dissent.Read More

The New York Law Journal, July 18, 2006, discusses a new case that enforced all but the attorney fee restriction of a prenuptial agreement. “An appeals court in Brooklyn has declared unenforceable provisions of a prenuptial agreement that barred a spouse from seeking attorney fees. A lawyer on the case said the decision was the...Read More

Read the new Nevada case of McClintock v. McClintock, which demonstrates the soundness of advice from attorneys that parties not remarry until Divorce Decree entered and final, from the Family Law Prof Blog.Read More

The recent New Jersey ethics opinion is gathering steam in the online discussions. The latest announcement of “super” lawyers is from the Family Law News in which it is announced that the San Francisco magazine has recently proclaimed that many collaborative lawyers are among the Super Lawyers of San Francisco.Read More

“The Kentucky child support statutes, like those of most states, provides a preference for prior-born children when calculating child support. In this case of first impression, the Kentucky Court of Appeals holds that this preference does not violate equal protection. ‘We agree with [other state] courts that the state’s interest in seeing that prior-born children...Read More