Coffman v. Rankin, –S.W.3d– (Ky. 2008), 2007-SC-000348-DGERead More

Z.T. v. M.T., et al, re rights of a parent in dependency action when child is questioned by the court and ineffective assistance of counsel. Digest to be posted soon.Read More

Z.T. v. M.T., et al, re rights of a parent in dependency action when child is questioned by the court and ineffective assistance of counsel. Digest to be posted soon.Read More

BEARDEN V. MAULDIN 2007-CA-001888 PUBLISHED: REVERSING IN PART, VACATING IN PART, AND REMANDING PANEL: BUCKINGHAM PRESIDING; LAMBERT AND MOORE CONCUR COUNTY: JEFFERSON Mom appealed from TC’s order denying her motion to set aside TC’s judgment awarding permanent custody of Daughter to Paternal Grandparents. Mom further appealed from TC’s order denying her motion for visitation, where...Read More

MCKINNEY V. MCKINNEY 2006-CA-002132 PUBLISHED: REVERSING AND REMANDING PANEL: DIXON PRESIDING; NICKELL, GRAVES CONCUR COUNTY: JEFFERSON Ex-Husband appealed from TC’s order imputing to him a monthly income of $8,000 for the purposes of establishing child support in accordance with the Kentucky Child Support Guidelines.Read More

The Kentucky Supreme Court decided Coffman v. Rankin today, a 4 – 3 decision reversing the Court of Appeals and reinstating the trial court change in the primary residence of the parties’ two children, now 13 and 10 years old.Read More

McKinney v. McKinney, court imputed income to part-time attorney and real estate “flipper” but did not make finding he was voluntarily underemployed and did not set out more specific findings. Since findings are essential to this judgment, case was reversed for further findings. A digest will follow. There is no link to the case here...Read More

I am glad Kentucky Law Review posted about the upcoming IdeaFestival. (Thanks, Mike, for the nice words.) While 9/25-9/27/08 has long been on my calendar, I didn’t realize the agenda was now available: From the Lexingon Herald-Leader: Scott Jones, the man who invented voicemail, will be there. So will J. Richard Gott, a Princeton University...Read More