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
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
