Steven Kriegshaber, Louisville attorney, and a past president of the Kentucky Chapter of the AAML, serves on the national AAML Special Concerns of Children Committee, and helped author a publication, REPRESENTING CHILDREN: Standards for Attorneys & Guardian Ad Litems in Custody or Visitation Proceedings. Published several years ago, it advocates that GALs not make recommendations...Read More

Register Online for the 90 minute ABA Teleseminar, “Ethical Issues in Representing Children in Custody Proceedings,” June 13, 2006 at noon Eastern time.Read More

Magaret Dore’s article, Court Appointed Parenting Evaluators and Guardians ad Litem: Practical Realities and an Argument for Abolition, makes a good case for such professionals not providing opinions on the ultimate question to the court. In Kentucky divorce cases, there is no authority for the court to even appoint a GAL, of which I have...Read More

As you will notice, this blog has a new name, as our content has expanded beyond Louisville and Kentucky. In the process of many behind-the-scene upgrades, our old feeds failed. Please resubscribe (or subscribe if you haven’t already) to the RSS feed. There is a new URL, too: http://DivorceLawJournal.com, but the old URLs still work...Read More

Posted by Michelle Eisenmenger Mapes I have now been back in Kentucky for just under two weeks, having returned on May 27th from an eight day seminar in Houston, Texas. I think I am almost fully recovered. A friend of mine has referred to this trip a few times as a “vacation,” and each time...Read More

The mindmapping tool is discussed, and a link provided to a demo, in Online Mediation. Denver’s Steve Harhai presented mindmapping at a LBA/AAML seminar a few years ago.The possibilities of mapping case information and issues are endless, and at the time I thought it was something we should explore. Sorry to say, other new, cool...Read More

Click for more discussion of parental relocation on The South Carolina Family Law Blog.Read More

From the Indiana Law Blog, “Electing Judges Is Not Wise”, which links to an interview with former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. She’s preaching to the choir here.Read More

Online Guide to Mediation reports a new alternative dispute method (can this be a joke?) used by a federal court in Florida. The order directs that “counsel shall engage in one (1) game of “rock, paper, scissors.” The winner of this engagement shall be entitled to select the location for the 30(b)(6) deposition to be...Read More

The UK Office on Continuing Legal Education has just published the first edition of Kentucky Domestic Relations Practice, and it looks to be a beauty. Its 16 chapters are authored by many different Kentucky family and divorce law attorneys and judges. We are fortunate to have it hot off the press because Michelle Eisenmenger Mapes...Read More