The Family Law News Blog
Family lawyers share and analyze news about family law.
Author: John Crouch practices at Crouch & Crouch in Arlington, Va.; Pauline Tesler practices at Tesler, Sandmann and Fishman Law Offices in Mill Valley, Calif.; and Ronald W. Nelson practices at Nelson & Booth in Overland Park, Kan.
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Recent Posts from The Family Law News Blog
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Marry Goyim, Get Bupkis.
Link: Law Blog - WSJ.com : Marry Goyim, You Get Bupkis; Illinois Court Strikes 'Jewish Clause'. Illinois dentist Max Feinberg's will said that any of his grandchildren who married non-Jews would get nothing. An Illinois…
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New form required for divorced spouses to get military pension survivor benefit
Military family law guru Mark Sullivan of Raleigh tipped me off about this. This new form will become the only way to elect military survivor benefit coverage in a divorce. Its use is mandatory after…
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Judge Posner pens best-written Hague Convention opinion ever
Only four pages long. Link: International Family Law News & Analysis: Judge Posner analyzes custody rights under foreign law in child abduction case.
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Japanese panel recommends outlawing surrogate birth as international surrogacy case's difficulties make news
Link: International Family Law News & Analysis: Japanese panel recommends outlawing surrogate birth as international surrogacy case's difficulties make news.
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Lesbian child custody battles and heterosexual divorce
My friend Mike Thompson in Austin just sent me this column by Glenn Sacks on "Lesbian child custody battles and heterosexual divorce". Sacks illustrates how many of the worst things about child custody cases, which…
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Japan to sign Hague Convention on Child Abduction.
Link: Japan to sign Hague Convention on Child Abduction.
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Fathers need to do more; mothers need to let them
Link: Get Ready to Step Up, Dad - washingtonpost.com. A great article from the March 25 Washington Post about how mothers and fathers set up their parenting roles, and how fathers need to get, or…
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Mills v. McCartney: Entertaining but irrelevant
Link: Text of full judgment: Heather Mills v Sir Paul McCartney - Times Online. I agree with the Mills opinion -- the idea of deserving to be supported "in the manner to which she has…
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It's not about the wife!
Some more perspective on Spitzer and the Mrs., from one of my gurus on such matters, Diane Sollee of smartmarriages.com, discussing another one of our mutual gurus, Dr. Frank Pittman: "I didn't see the Today…
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Columnist: Stop pressuring wronged wives to divorce.
Maggie Gallagher came out with one of those observations that has been vaguely bothering me for years, but which I probably couldn't have articulated in a million years, in her column today, "SPITZER, STOP TORTURING…