Steven Peskind’s “Lex Familia” Blog

Recent Posts from Steven Peskind’s “Lex Familia” Blog

• The Lawyer’s Job

  ” But the job of a lawyer rendering advice is not to seek to satisfy the client’s wishes, but it is to inform the client, as objectively as possible, what the law requires or permits…

• Nothing Personal

  Lex just met a former public defender who recently became a family lawyer. She formerly handled death penalty cases. Life or death stuff. And what she told me was interesting. The practice of family law…

• A Noble Profession

  “True, we build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures—unless as amateurs for our own amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of…

• Compassionate Advocacy

  Compassion contemplates concern for another’s suffering, accompanied by a subsequent need to alleviate the suffering. Compassionate family law advocacy requires both a concern with a client’s pain, coupled with appropriate action to address and help reduce…

• Deposing the family czars

  The Idaho Supreme Court recently issued a decision  that explores the role of familycourt. While generally unremarkable, the ruling is insightful in its examination of the limits of the court’s power. In Allbright v. Allbright, http://tinyurl.com/phk9tj, filed August…

• Who’s Your Daddy Redux

  In 2004 Lex published an article in the Loyola University Chicago law Journal entitled, “Who’s Your Daddy? : An Analysis of Illinois’ Law of Parentage and the Meaning of Parenthood.” The premise of the article…

• D-Mail

  Just as technology has changed society , it has significantly altered the divorce landscape. Divorce mail, or D-mail is a modern phenomenon in family court. More and more lawyers deal with the use and abuse of …

• Does a parent’s duty of support include saving a child’s life?

  This is an interesting post by Eugene Volokh,  from the “Volokh Conspiracy” Blog   http://volokh.com, that poses the question whether a parent should have a legal duty to contribute a kidney to a child. If we compel a…

• Legislating Morality

  This is an interesting discourse on the difficulty legislatures have balancing needs of the family against individual rights.  To what extent can public policy influence intimate relationships? And vice versa. From Concurring Opinions Blog   http://www.concurringopinions.com. Is Divorce Too…

• Parent Support?

  As our society ages, should we explore the notion of parent support? Nobody questions mandatory child support (well a few perhaps), but does it make sense to compel senior support? Do we owe anything to our parents…