AAML President-Elect, Guy Ferraro is cited in a Concord Monitor Online article, as American’s attachment to their pets filters into the divorce arena. The St. Petersburg Times reports on pending cases that are attempting to test pets being treated merely as divisible marital property.Read More

Settle it Now Negotiation Blog posted “Professor Robert Cialdini’s Influence has become a classic in the science and practice of persuasion. Here are his six basic principles of powerful persuasion.” I like what I am seeing on Victoria Pynchon’s blawg and her Settle it Now Mediation Blog. I have added both her blogs to our...Read More

“OK, Let’s Tackle This Unhappy Lawyer Thing” is the title of a posting in the Settle It Now Negotiation Blog. “Look around your law firm. Are the transactional lawyers actually having more fun putting deals together than are the litigators tearing them apart? We might learn a thing or two from them. Take a tax...Read More

Negotiation advice from Harvard Business School Professor Michael Watkins is summarized at Settle It Now Negotiation Blog. While not geared specifically to divorce lawyers, I have long thought negotiation training is something law school students lacked. There is no more important field for lawyer continuing education.Read More

Using financial planners to help divorcing parents deal with their children’s college expenses was the subject of a posting on the South Carolina Family Law Blog. In the states where there is no legal requirement for support beyond high school, as with Kentucky, perhaps the language of financial planners could help us convince parents (over...Read More

Add Nebraska and Tennessee to the list of states whose courts have upheld same-sex marriage bans. Source: Family Law Prof Blog.Read More

HB 424 became law July 15, 2006, as we reported April 11, 2006. Yet, we have heard the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts is delaying enforcement pending the Kentucky Supreme Court’s likely revision of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure.Read More

The Family Law Prof Blog posts on the discovery of artificial sperm created from mice stem cells and links to a Scotland article about it. Now kids can theoretically have 7 biologically related human parents and one mouse ancestor. Or, maybe the mouse would substitute for one or more of the human biological parents. TheRead More

Unless one of the other lawyers in our office gets a wild hair and starts posting here, the lights will be off for a week. Time for a little R&R. See you next week.Read More

The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts has published Model Standards for Child Custody Evaluators. The American Psychological Association has long had standards, but the problem arises when the evaluator is not a psychologist. This model should help fill the gap and be a useful resource in cross-examining those evaluators.Read More