The Mediator Blah…Blah… blog has a good posting called “When The Going Gets Tough…Do’s and Don’t for Mediators“. The blog itself has a nice flair. The preceding post , Tech News, was good, too. It shows a white board with the nuts and bolts of an agreement scribbled on it.Read More

In an article in The Weekly Standard yesterday, Edward Whelan heaves insults at the divorce bar by pronouncing, “Tucker’s narrow specialty, divorce law, is far removed, in both substance and sophistication, from the work of the federal appellate courts–especially from the complex cases of administrative law that are the staple of the D.C. Circuit.” Excuse...Read More

United Press International reports Gallop Poll results showing an increasing number of people who view marriage less important than in prior polls, even in families with children. The Guardian UK News reports a new proposal in the UK that would apply divorce type law to unmarried couples. If marriage declines, are divorce type laws the...Read More

The KentuckyLawBlog reports today that the state will hold hearings on children hastily removed from biological parents to facilitate “quick trigger” adoptions. The post links to a Lexington Herald-Leader story. The hearings in the legislature will begin June 21, 2006 at 1 p.m.Read More

The Online Guide to Mediation has a good post on the useful tool of reframing issues.”The art of reframing is to maintain the conflict in all its richness but to help people look at it in a more open-minded and hopeful way.”Read More

The Art of Divorce covers parents rotating living in the marital residence where the children remain, linking to an ABC Good Morning America story. There was a time when this was suggested fairly frequently, but we haven’t seen it done lately.Read More

Here’s an easy way to Create a Graph for your demonstrative evidence.Read More

Look at today’s Christian Science Monitor for a perspective on this issue. As Congress takes it up this month, we will post more.Read More

A South Carolina case last month held that a man had standing to pursue visitation, even though not biologically related to child. Mom was estopped from contesting standing because of multiple year relationship she permitted to develop between man and child. Middleton v. Johnson.Read More

In a story in yesterday’s Lexington Herald-Leader, the recent unpublished opinion of V.S. v. Commonwealth was the topic. It is newsworthy because of the ongoing investigation into “quick-trigger” adoptions.Read More