Family Law Prof Blog
Covers family law related news and issues, including marriage, divorce, adoption, child abuse, domestic violence and reproductive issues.
Author: Barbara Glesner Fines, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Nancy Ver Steegh, an associate professor at William Mitchell College of Law, edit Family Law Prof Blog, which is part of the Law Professor Blogs Network.
Blawg Related Categories: Family Law • Law Professors • University of Missouri, Kansas City • William Mitchell College of Law • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Family Law Prof Blog
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Family Law Prof on Custody of Michael Jackson's Children
University of Dayton Family Law Prof Pamela Laufer-Ukeles contends the nanny of Michael Jackson's children ought to have a legal claim for visitation or custodial rights to the pop star's children, but Grace Rwaramba's status…
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Marriage Stronger than Ever
The New York Times summarizes a range of studies on the impact of infidelity on marriage and concludes that most marriages weather these storms and that the marriage tie is stronger than ever in today's…
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Case Law Development: Rude Behavior of Attorney Tipped the Scales in Favor of Protective Order Against Client
In a good example of the lesson that rude or aggressive lawyering is not effective advocacy, a California trial court issued a protective order based on the aggressive conduct of examination by the defendant’s attorney.…
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What New Family Law Attorneys Need To Know
At a conference on the Future of Family Law Education yesterday, a group of attorneys and mental health professionals were asked to advise the law professors present on what new lawyers need to know about…
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Case Law Update: Voluntary Acknowledgement Wins in Competing Presumptions of Paternity
In an extremely messy case involving dramatically differing stories from the parties and the intersection of four separate statutory provisions governing paternity, the California Court of Appeals held that a voluntary acknowledgment of paternity trumped…
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Father's Day Facts
New York Times Magazine columnist Lisa Belkin compiled a list of facts about contemporary fathers that provides a nice snapshot of the changing roles of fathers. Her column notes that fathers are more involved in…
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Recession and Divorce
While previous reports have noted that the recession may make divorce too expensive an option for some couples, the National Law Journal recently reports that high-end divorce attorneys are seeing an increase in their work…
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Incarceration for HIV-Positive Pregnant Immigrant
An immigrant woman from Cameroon was arrested for allegedly having false immigration documents. Shortly after her arrest, she learned she was both pregnant and HIV positive. On May 14, 2009, a US District Court Judge…
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Sham Divorces
Students sometimes come to the study of family law thinking that "no fault" divorce is the same as "on demand" divorce. These students need to be reminded of the necessity to prove "irreconcilable differences" or…
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Case Law Development: Preference for "Traditional Family" Insufficient Justification for Removing Child from Foster Care Placement
The West Virginia Supreme Court, writing for the first time on the issue of the propriety of same-sex parenting, granted a writ of prohibition against a trial court's order to remove a foster child from…