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In a story in yesterday’s Lexington Herald-Leader, the recent unpublished opinion of V.S. v. Commonwealth was the topic.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

Florida’s Janet Langjahr has two recent postings relating to domestic violence. Last week on FlaDivorceLawBlog she wrote about a study reported in Forbes, that found victims were more apt to confide the abuse to a computer than to a physician, leading advocates to the recommendation that health care providers use computerized questionnaires.Read More

Tovia Smith, on yesterday’s NPR Legal Affairs, reported on the relocation case of Mason v. Coleman, which is pending before the MA Supreme Court. The online version has the oral arguments posted, linked to Suffolk University Law School. Some comments: 1. I don’t know how long the online link will remain “live”, so if you...Read More

We don’t make this stuff up! From the Online Guide to Mediation Blog:“The marrying kind: wedding planning mediators help couples steer clear of conflict” Later this year you will be hearing much about the AAML’s newest project, “Focus on Forever”, aimed at helping couples work through difficult life questions before marrying, in an effort to...Read More