Several Kentucky divorce attorneys, including yours truly, have used Laura (the “goddess”) Morgan’s Family Law Consulting Service. She has been so generous with her time coming to KY to teach at our seminars, meeting with our Child Support Commission, answering our telephone questions, and magically appearing with “white papers” at precisely the right time, that...Read More

Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA School of Law, a prolific writer, and in a former life a law clerk to Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, will publish this month a significant piece of legal scholarship, Parent-Child Speech Restricitons. I am please to have his permission to link to the draft.Read More

Hollbrook v. Hollbrook, 151 SW3d 825 (Ky.App., 2005) Where wife did not file a complaint in Bankruptcy Court, the Court did not have jurisdiction to reverse the order of the Bankruptcy Court discharging husband’s debt to wife arising from pension benefits he received prior to entry and acceptance of QDROs.Read More

B.C. v. B.T. and K.F., Joint Custodians of N.C., 182 SW3d 213, (Ky.App., 2005) Appeal to Court of Appeals proper since Circuit had a Family Court. Evidence was sufficient to establish father as unfit, although such finding was unnecessary as grandmother was found to be a de facto custodian and, thus, had equal footing with...Read More

Today on Ben Cowgill’s SoloBlawg he links to a nice tutorial on RSS feeds. FeedDemon is easy, and I also recommend it. When you subscribe to RSS feeds, you can check all your favorite news and blog updates at leisure, and all in one place. Set up a news aggregator such as FeedDemon, then link to...Read More

Clark v. Com., Cabinet for Health and Family Services, 170 SW3d 426 (Ky.App., 2005) Premature notice of appeal from an intermediate order may proceed even though a second notice of appeal was not filed from the final order.Read More

Thorn v. Commonwealth of Kentucky and Shirley Robinson, 181 SW3d 560 (Ky.App., 2005) Appeals from Family Court are to be taken to Court of Appeals. Appeals from Family Court are to be taken to Court of Appeals. KRS 620.155 is intended for use in counties that do not have a family court. When two statutes...Read More

Fowler v. Sowers, 151 SW3d 357 (Ky.App., 2004) Although Fenwick was decided after the 2001 changes to KRS 403.340, the Court acknowledged its decision was based on the older version because that version was in effect at the time of the entry of the order under review. A contemplated move to Alaska three years after...Read More

Thanks to Rob Robertson of Austin, TX for his ABA Family Law listserve posting suggesting the use of a new beta google calendaring utility in which parents can share a calendar for each child’s activites. The more parents can share information about their children, the better. And, when it is just too difficult to communicate...Read More

The Kentucky Collaborative Family Network, Inc. (KCFN) elected its new officers for 2006-2007. Steven Kriegshaber of Conliffe, Sullivan and Sandmann will succeed Patricia Bennett of Smith Barney as President. Allison Johnson, LCSW was elected Vice President and John Walsh and Sandra G. Ragland were re-elected Treasurer and Secretary.Read More