Many years ago, Kathy Revell, the daughter of Retired Judge Richard Revell (she was also his secretary at the time) circulated this country divorce song quiz. We have added to her list of love gone wrong tunes starting with #32, following her list of artists. Divorce is about as sad a field of law as...Read More

The April 16, 2006 Couier-Journal reported the creation of a new District Court docket to monitor compliance with domestic violence offender treatment. Today’s Courier editorial page rightly praised Judge Angela Bisig’s pilot program, but inaccuratley referred to the court as a Domestic Violence Court.Read More

The OCSE is seeking comments by April 21, 2006 to revisions to the federal wage assignment order form.Download wao.docRead More

RSS feeds are the way to go to receive manageable updates to news and new blawg postings. Thanks to KY’s Michael Stevens and his www.KentuckyLawBlog.com and LouisvilleLawWire for making this easier for the rest of us. His suggestion that FeedDemon was the easiest aggregator was taken (for $29 why take a more difficult route?) and...Read More

Hofstra Law School established an L.L.M. program in family law and will enroll its first students beginning in the fall of 2006, in response to increased specialization and interdisciplinary issues. http://www.hofstra.edu/Academics/Law/law_llm_familylaw.cfm. This is the third such program in the U.S. although in other countries they appear to be as well known as our L.L.M. programs...Read More

I have invited the other KY blawgers to my home Friday April 28 for drinks and dinner. All have insipired and helped me as I created this blog, yet few of us have met. It will be great fun sharing tips and ideas. My daughter has dubbed it the “Geek Party.” If you are a...Read More

Maine has new pet protection provisions in its domestic violence statutes. I know of no reason in KY why a court could not protect animals as part of the entry of a domestic violence order in the absence of a specific statute. The comments are passionate to the Press Herald online report of the new...Read More

The Family Law Taxation Blog has a recent posting about innocent spouse tax relief: http://www.familylawtaxation.com. However, even if the IRS absolves a sopuse from tax liability, in a KY divorce, the trial court can assess some of the burden of the tax to the innocent spouse. Dobson v. Dobson, 159 SW3d 335 (Ky.App., 2004) Spouse...Read More

As promised, here’s the complete list and summary of the latest Kentucky cases that are final and now published. I have included just a few important non-final cases, but the status is indicated. Retired Chief Family Court Judge Richard A. Revell summarized half the cases in connection with our Fifteenth Annual Domestic Relations Update at...Read More

Finally we have a law sealing social security numbers, date of birth, name of minor child and financial account numbers in domestic relations court files.Read More