The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children announces: The International Missing Children’s Division of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is very pleased to announce the creation of a practitioner’s guide to litigating Hague Convention cases. The manual, “Litigating International Child Abduction Cases Under the Hague Convention,” was prepared by the law...Read More

When we link to a case (usually by simply highlighting the case in red, although that may change soon to make it more obvious) if the status of the case has changed, the link will be to the newest online version. That’s how we discovered discretionary review was granted August !5, 2007 in Rankin v....Read More

A Referee for Mom and Dad: Increasingly, Divorced Couples Enlist Professionals to Help Resolve Parenting Disputes is the title of the article by Rachel Emma Silverman in the Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2007; Page D1 (subcription required for online access).Read More

Family Law Prof Blog directs us to a new twist on the third party bio-dad of a child born during a marriage. What name should the child have? In the Matter of the Change of Name of L.M.G., (South Dakota August 8, 2007) , found here, Prof.Read More

When I read Wireman v. Perkins, digested here, I thought the underlying constitutional questions were interesting. While not mentioning this recent Kentucky decision about religious upbringing of children in the child custody context, scholar Eugene Volokh’s analysis here of constitutional issues in custody questions indicate the Kentucky Court of Appeals reached the correct result.Read More

Wireman v. Perkins (To be published)Read More

South Carolina adopted the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdication Act (UCCJEA) this month, bringing to 46 the number of states that have finally come onboard.Read More

Even in countries who are signatories to the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, parental abduction can be difficult to remedy. Consider this post from International Family Law: South Africa’s Court of Appeal has blasted the failure of the courts below to order the prompt return of a child, now aged five, who was wrongfully...Read More

The digest follows for Nordike v. Nordike, 2004-CA-002242-MR, designated not to be published. Discretionary review was granted by Supreme Court 5/10/06 and oral arguments were held 5/17/07. You can read the briefs filed in the Kentucky Supreme Court here, courtesy of SCOKY Blog, via Chase Law School.Read More

The Kentucky Supreme Court has stayed a trial in Rhoades v. Ricketts, expedited the briefing schedule in the matter of J.N.R., et al. v. Hon. Joseph O’Reilly, Judge, Jefferson Family Court, 2007-SC-000175-MR, and has scheduled oral arguments September 12, 2007, at 9:00 a.m., at the University of Kentucky College of Law courtroom, 620 Limestone Street,...Read More