Few men seek alimony. That is why it is news that The Miami Herald reports in its story on Sunday, CBS4 anchor asks wife for alimony. As co-anchor of the 5:30 p.m. newscast and an Emmy-winning reporter, (Eliott)Rodriguez earns $300,000 a year. His wife, Univisión anchor Maria Elena Salinas, 51, earns more: upward of $2...Read More
Untying the knot, more couples calling it quits later in life is the troubling headline of a story by Korky Vann; a special to the Hartford Courant, republished in the Courier-Journal yesterday. When Hon. John Potter, retired, was presiding in Jefferson Family Court many years ago, he said that there ought to be a statute...Read More
Why Are There So Many American Singles? by Kate Zernike appears in the New York Times Week in Review Section, and provides some insight to the stats published recently that 51% of American women are unmarried. It turns out that the marriage gap is not between women and men, but is about class and education.Read More
Bar Represents Man Who Went Online to Arrange Divorce Posted on January 15, 2007 by Grant Griffiths at Kansas Family Law Blog. The North Carolina State Bar is taking up the case of a man who went online to try to arrange his divorce, only to find court officials wouldn’t accept the documents he downloaded...Read More
Andrew Wolfson reports in today’s Courier-Journal, Family Court Attoney Fees Stand. I loved the quote from Jefferson Circuit Court Chief Judge, Family Division, Stephen M. George: The importance of work done by GALs and CACs cannot be overstated…There are very few judicial acts that have as profound effects as the actions made involving the parent-child...Read More
If there was a photograph of R. Gary Lowen that was not at least 20 years old, I would post it with this announcement of his selection as the Louisville Bar Association 2007 recipient of the Richard A. Revell Family Law Award. I refuse to print one that makes him look like he’s 30 years...Read More
Thanks to the San Francisco Family Law Blog for the heads up on this article;Buying babies, bit by bit, An International Guide to Baby-Making, from Economist.com “ One of the tests of a liberal society is whether the state stays out of the bedroom—but more than 3M people alive now were not made in bedrooms....Read More
The Court of Appeals in Ontario ruled that three parents can have parental rights over one child . Between A.A., Appellant and B.B. and C.C., Appellees. The background of the case is reported in Jurist. A Canadian child can legally have three parents – two mothers and a father.Read More
Lawyers take legal debates online is the story by Brandon Ortiz published today in the Herald-Leader about Kentucky lawyers authoring law weblogs. Kentucky Law Blog has an excellent post, Herald Leader Story Addresses Growing Law “Blogs” , speaking well for all of us interviewed for the article, of our fears in submitting to an interview...Read More
