The Kentucky Supreme Court has proposed an Amendment to the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure regarding the citation of unpublished decisions, as follows: The proposed amendments to section (4)(c) of CR 76.28 are:Read More

We were saddened by the death last week of our Louisville colleague, E. Michael Runner, a former AAML Fellow. Mike was opposing counsel in an alienation of affection case early in my career, a tort which has, thankfully, since been abolished in Kentucky. It was quite a circus and Mike did a masterful job. Judge...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A Califonia bill which would have permitted a primary residential parent to relocate a-la-Fenwick was withdrawn after more than 4,000 complaints.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

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 have been slowly doling out the final KY decisions of the last year as we build our online database, so we can keep the blawg interesting with other material. Now we’re ready to move on to the latest and greatest, so you will see a blitz of the final decisions of the last year...Read More

Bonnie Brown, a Louisville attorney, AAML fellow and KCFN member, sent this article from the May 3, 2006  Boston Globe quantifying the value of homemaker services. While divorce does not directly provide a vehicle for compensating such services, we remind each other from time to time of a case where she made this argument as part of a spousal support claim.Read More

  The Kentucky Office of Inspector General is investigating whether children whose mothers are domestic-violence victims, and others are being inappropriately removed from their families to increase state foster-care adoptions and federal financial bonuses. The matter is also under review by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, by various grass-roots organizations and, most recently,...Read More

The Family Law Professor’s Blog reported on this case today following yet another N.Y. Times article. Detective Anthony Pellicano was indicted in February following a long investigation which is including more than one divorce lawyer in its net. One of the allegations is that the lawyer received wiretapping information from the detective. Moral of the...Read More

Andy Wolfson reports in today’s Courier Journal that three justices may retire before the expiration of their terms this year, permitting Gov. Fletcher to appoint replacements. I have been a long term critic of subjecting our judges to the elective process. Mr. Wolfson didn’t emplasize the fact that Gov. FLetcher’s appointees will be limited to...Read More

The Courier Journal printed an AP story on Monday revealing that the state has removed 50 children in the last year from women who fled to Lexington, KY shelters to escape domestic violence.Read More