Adoptions Changes Sought, Panel Wants Safeguards For Removing Kids From Parents is the title of a Lexington Herald-Leader article by Valarie Honeycutt Spears. Some quotes: A task force studying the improper removal of children from their parents in Kentucky is for the second time asking the General Assembly to pass a reform bill.Read More

Kansas is the 5th state to adopt The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act, International Family Law reports at Preventing International Child Abduction: The Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act – which includes some specific provisions designed to prevent international child abduction – was signed into law in Kansas on April 6, 2007. Kansas is the fourth...Read More

On the evening of the last day of the 2007 session, the “Boni” bill finally passed, named for Boni Frederick, the western Kentucky social worker murdered last year after she took a child on what was to have been a final home visit with the mother. The legislation includes funding for centers where supervised visitation...Read More

In a companion Courier-Journal article to Ky. cases post question: What defines a father, Andrew Wolfson writes today Some states handle paternity with Uniform Parentage Act .Read More

House Bill 396 (extend domestic violence protection to dating partners): dead. The legislative history is below the fold. Related info: see today’s digest of a new, to be published Kentucky case.Read More

Senate Bill 220 (require prosecution in certain child support arrearage cases): dead House Bill 369 (raise minimum child support obligation to $100 per month): dead. The legislative history of each is below the fold.Read More

Deborah Yetter at the Courier-Journal has the latest on the proposed legislation to provide social worker protection and to establish more family visitation centers, House Bill 362. Bottom line? They’re still working. I would say surely the broad support for this “Boni Bill” will result in legislation and funding, but nothing apparently is sure in...Read More

Senate Bill 158 (Expand methods of collection of maintenance order): dead. House Bill 382 (Collection of spousal support): dead. Both these bills were meritorious and cost the taxpayers nothing. Here’s hoping that something similar will get through next year. The legislative history of each is below.Read More

Senate Bill 198 (which included an amendment to provide for electronic filing for divorces, which was withdrawn): dead. The legislative history is below the fold.Read More

Senate Bill 141 (State pays for counsel in certain custody case) : dead. What a pity. The legislative history is below the fold.Read More