Tips for Family Law Practitioners from My Shingle. It links to a National Law Journal report. Mike Stevens came across this on his blog watch and passed it on.Read More

In several marital settlement agreements we have made provision for the right to a Jewish get as well as detailed who would pay the associated expense. The Jersusaleum Post has a recent article that articulates the importance of a get in Israel and the consequences of the refusal of the husband to consent. Among many...Read More

As client handouts go, The AAML’s Stepping Back From Anger is the best for divorcing parents. The brochure is available for purchase at a nominal cost ($1 per pamphlet) online.Read More

Great news from the Kentucky Law Blog! The Kentucky Academy of Trial Attorneys is forming a Domestic Law Section. The organizational meeting will be July 11, 2006, 9:30 am at KATA headquarters. This section will fill a badly needed void in the professional development of family lawyers in Kentucky. No other family law organization has...Read More

Dennis Kennedy writes one of the most helpful law practice management blogs. He has a nice posting up about protecting client confidences, and another this week on public speaking. “1. Know your stuff, 2.Focus on what’s really important, really novel or really interesting, and 3. Only speak on subjects you care about to audiences you...Read More

The ABA Family Law Section has new CLE on CD: Military Pension Division: Crossing the Minefield Assisted Reproduction and Alternative Families Family Law Attorney’s Guide to Divorce Related Tax IssuesRead More

Find useful tips on searching federal gorernment websites, from the Indiana Law Blog.Read More

The San Francisco Family Law Blog reprints an article from Gannett, Till Debt Do Us Part. “Which financial issues most often cause strife? Spending too much and saving too little, according to couples who responded to a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll in March….Making matters worse is that couples don’t talk much about money before committing to...Read More

After many years of study, The American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers published a Model Relocation Act, for consideration by state legislatures in 1997. Shame on us for waiting on our courts to adopt on a case by case basis standards for removing children from the locale of a parent. We need to get this into...Read More

Steven Kriegshaber, Louisville attorney, and a past president of the Kentucky Chapter of the AAML, serves on the national AAML Special Concerns of Children Committee, and helped author a publication, REPRESENTING CHILDREN: Standards for Attorneys & Guardian Ad Litems in Custody or Visitation Proceedings. Published several years ago, it advocates that GALs not make recommendations...Read More