Category: Family Law  
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 08, 2010
Eighty-two year old Husband owns used auto parts business. Husband has stroke. Wife gets legal guardianship of Husband. Husband is admitted to nursing home. Eighty year old Wife discharges Husband from nursing home. Wife rejects in-home nursing care. Husb
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 07, 2010
In Japan, the wives control the pursestrings. Historically, Japanese wives skim some of the family’s earnings and roll it over into their own personal rainy day fund, called “bellybutton money”. The weak economy in Japan over the last year and a half or so has taken its
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 06, 2010
Ontario Canada’s highest court has fired a shot which may be heard around the family law universe. Common law Husband threatens and harasses common law Wife … with the intention of intimidating her into backing off on her claims for property division and alimony. For exa
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 05, 2010
Maltese Mother and Scottish Father are divorced. Mother has custody of their Daughter and they live in Malta. Father lives in Scotland. Last November, Mother and Daughter go to Scotland to visit relatives. While they are there, Father requests a visitation day in Scotl
Divorce Law Journal - February 05, 2010
Campbell v. Campbell, arbitration not allowed in Ky divorce cases. 
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 04, 2010
Everyone knows some parent (or grandparent) of an adult child who just doesn’t like their child’s chosen spouse. The reasons vary – and sometimes there really is no actual reason. In most instances, the parent (or grandparent) has no choice but to “get over
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 03, 2010
UK Husband owns roughly 300 acre farm. Husband and Wife have stormy marriage. Wife tells friends that Husband is violent with her. Husband also reportedly threatens Wife Wife e-mails one friend that Husband claims to have associates “who could get rid of b
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 02, 2010
Attorney-Husband has a lucrative class-action personal injury litigation practice. Husband and Wife have millions of dollars in assets. Husband has been working on a particular case for the last several years of Husband’s marriage to Wife. Wife files for divorce from
The Family Law Blog - February 02, 2010
Various media reports have claimed that the Italian Prime Minister and his wife, Veronica Lario, have been trading allegations of adultery in the context of their divorce. Mr Berlusconi's antics have been widely reported and it is understood that Ms Lario left Mr Berlusconi when she heard
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - February 01, 2010
Husband is celebrated surgeon and professor in Germany. Then he reportedly pleads guilty to intentionally harming patients and then falsifying medical records. He is fined approximately $37,000, but is not sentenced to jail. He does however lose his position and standing.
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - January 31, 2010
Teens in foster care are not that adoptable. So they tend to remain in foster care. Permanently. Yet these teenagers may have extended family who might be willing to take them in and adopt them. If they only knew of their circumstances. Or existence. That’s the premise tha
Domestic Diversions - January 31, 2010
The New York Daily News reveals research showing that couples who use ‘we’ are happier than those who use ‘I’, ‘me’ or ‘you.’ Sherryl Connelly writes (excerpt): We-ness is a language that spouses who are better able to resolve conflicts speak, ...
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - January 30, 2010
First came The Divorce Party, not long ago at all. So it was just a matter of time until … The Divorce Gift Registry. The brainchild of a Bri
Florida Divorce * Child Custody * Domestic Violence Law - January 30, 2010
It’s been ten years since the US Supreme Court all but stranded grandparents seeking visitation with their grandchildren out in the cold, but the grandparents of America refuse to be left there … and many state legislators have since taken up their cause, despite the high court’
Divorce Law Journal - January 29, 2010