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’re read and recommended Ricci’s original book and look forward to reading this one.Mom’s House, Dad’s House for Kids: Feeling at Home in One Home or Two “Excerpt: ‘Separation and divorce are a little like a long road trip. The destination is a new version of normal family life – one that is different from...Read More

A Califonia bill which would have permitted a primary residential parent to relocate a-la-Fenwick was withdrawn after more than 4,000 complaints. Here’s the scoop from the San Francisco Law Blog.Read More

John and Mary were a typical couple. Married for twelve years, they had an eight-year-old son, John, Jr. John had been ecstatic when Mary became pregnant and enthusiastically participated in the prenatal preparations. He attended Lamaze classes with his wife and converted his den into a nursery. He coached Mary in the delivery room and...Read More

From John E. Harding at the California Divorce Blawg,   U.S Supreme Court Allows Lesbian To Seek Parental RightsRead More

No wonder I couldn’t find this case in a prior post; it was still in the draft stage pending ruling by the Kentucky Supreme Court on discretionary review, although we did refer to it in a story on the Supreme Court elections in Kentucky. As a general rule, we intend only to publish cases that...Read More

We first saw the BIG news of the day at The Art of Divorce blog which linked to an AP story reporting on the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to block a lesbian woman from pursuing a custody claim to a child conceived by her partner through artificial donor insemination. The case arises from Washington state,...Read More

There is an online site to help parents eliminate the conflict and put their children’s interest first, Up To Parents. Looks like these folks have the right idea! Michelle Eisenmenger Mapes learned of this resource on the Indiana Bar listserve.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

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