“Woman Beaten By Husband Wins Suit” was the headline of an MSNBC article, reporting on a $550,000 actual and punitive damage award to a domestic violence victim.Read More

From The Family Law Prof’s Blog: Commentary: Do State Constitutional Bans on Same-Sex Marriage Impact Domestic Violence Statutes and Unmarried Women? and Another Ohio Appellate Court Holds Domestic Violence Statute Unconstitutional under Ohio’s Defense of Marriage AmendmentRead More

Florida’s Janet Langjahr has two recent postings relating to domestic violence. Last week on FlaDivorceLawBlog she wrote about a study reported in Forbes, that found victims were more apt to confide the abuse to a computer than to a physician, leading advocates to the recommendation that health care providers use computerized questionnaires.Read More

The Contra Costa Times has an article on domestic violence against men. Thanks to Janet Langjahr’s FlaDivorceLawBlog, for reporting on this. Janet was also kind enough to give me a couple of tips for linking and better describing other family law blogs, which we put in place this weekend.Read More

Wright v. Wright and Fraley v. Fraley, 181 SW3d 49 (Ky.App., 2005) A full evidentiary hearing must be afforded by the Court before entering or denying a DVO.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 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

The April 16, 2006 Couier-Journal reported the creation of a new District Court docket to monitor compliance with domestic violence offender treatment. Today’s Courier editorial page rightly praised Judge Angela Bisig’s pilot program, but inaccuratley referred to the court as a Domestic Violence Court.Read More

Maine has new pet protection provisions in its domestic violence statutes. I know of no reason in KY why a court could not protect animals as part of the entry of a domestic violence order in the absence of a specific statute. The comments are passionate to the Press Herald online report of the new...Read More