The New York Times reports today U.S. Set to Begin a Vast Expansion of DNA Sampling. Peter Neufeld, a lawyer who is a co-director of the Innocence Project, which has exonerated dozens of prison inmates using DNA evidence, said the government was overreaching by seeking to apply DNA sampling as universally as fingerprinting.Read More

Parker v. Parker, from the Supreme Court of Florida was decided February 1, 2007. The parties married in 1996, the child was born in 1998, a 2001 divorce decree incorporated an agreement for child support and the husband did not have a paternity test until 2003. The wife’s misrepresentation of paternity was held to be...Read More

Whether a state has adopted the Uniform Parentage Act answers the question posed in Is Bio-Dad a Legal Stranger to Child Born During a Marriage?, according to this comment posted by Jeanne Hannah of Updates In Michigan Family Law: Clearly, this case boils down to the fact that the biological father, under Kentucky law, does...Read More

I received a brochure this week from Genetic Technologies, Inc. It provides genetic testing services in accordance with the Uniform Parentage Act, according to its website. It offers a self-testing kit ($50.00) for anonymous in-home testing. I thought it was interesting that the website states New York residents are prohibited from ordering paternity tests directly....Read More

Ben Stevens in South Carolina posts the latest on Should Children in Foster Care Receive Help After Turning 18? at South Carolina Family Law Blog.Read More

Three recent law review articles are noted on Family Law Prof Blog: Dual Disciplinary Teaching, ADR and Representation of Children, and Making Divorce Work.Read More

Jeremy Morley at International Family Law reports: The abduction of children from the United States is facilitated by the lack of exit controls at U.S. borders. A lawsuit just filed in Massachusetts against Continental Airlines may help shift at least some of the responsibility onto the airlines.Read More

These days, to call law school a “trade school” is considered an insult to the establishment. Professors are firmly entrenched in their intellectual camps and pursue their academic agendas. Faculty members with “real world” experience are rarely hired on that basis alone–although it is quite common to hire professors who have clerked for judges but...Read More

An interesting and sad husband/putative father custody case is pending in Jefferson Circuit Court, Family Division and in the Kentucky Court of Appeals.Read More

Benjamin Cowgill, Lexington, Kentucky, is the former Chief Bar Counsel for the Kentucky Bar Association, where he was responsible for the investigation and prosecution of all disciplinary cases against members of the bar. He has also taught professional responsibility as an adjunct professor at the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law.Read More