By all accounts, the program of Irv Maze, Jefferson County Attorney in threatening to publicize the names of child support obligors who are six months delinquent is very successful. A long list appeared in a supplement to today’s Courier Journal. 20% of the deadbeats are women, so let’s lay to rest the phrase “dead beat...Read More

ABA Journal, Law News Now reports, Divorce Fair Offers Legal Services and More, linking to an online Bloomberg article today.Read More

All lawyers remember their first jury trial. Mine was a dreadful alienation of affections case about which I reported here, on the death of E. Michael Runner. Thankfully the tort has since been abolished in Kentucky. Seven states still allow lawsuits by people who claim someone stole their wife or husband, Hawaii, Illinois, New Mexico,...Read More

As Miami’s family courts prepare to go paperless, a law.com article Family Court Embarks on Paperless Odyssey, by Billy Shields, Daily Business Review, October 22, 2007, available online discusses: The PlusesRead More

Check out the Metropolitan Corporate Counsel magazine interview with Lynne Z. Golk-Bikin, What Price Does The Company Pay In An Executive’s Divorce Or Custody Battle? It is available online.Read More

Here are some quotes from a front page New York Times article today, Tell-All PCs and Phones Transforming Divorce. Divorce lawyers routinely set out to find every bit of private data about their clients’ adversaries, often hiring investigators with sophisticated digital forensic tools to snoop into household computers.Read More

Jefferson divorce packets cut costs is the headline of Jason Riley’s front page Courier-Journal story this morning, online here. Over 600 people have started using the forms. As we reported here last spring, Hon. Stephen M.Read More

How states will deal with divorces between same-sex partners legally married in another state or country is an issue family lawyers are watching and busy planning strategies.Read More

Many equitable division states, including Kentucky, do not have an automatic equal division of marital property. Rather, marital property is divided in just proportions. Generally where wealth is involved, the greater the estate earned by the working spouse, the less likely the non-working spouse will receive 50%, particularly when their are no children.Read More