Today I presented on Hot Topics in Family Law for the AICPA National Forensic Accounting Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. These CPAs were very interested and interactive. They asked probing questions and really seemed eager to learn. It was very refreshing and a little intimidating. They wanted to learn and asked some great questions. The gist […]
Bar family law section head says lump-sum payments ‘predict’ facts, assume situation will not change By Meredith Jordan Several family law lawyers say a Sept. 20 Georgia Supreme Court ruling that affirmed a lower court’s grant of a lump-sum child support payment to cover 13 years of care sets a “dangerous” precedent because it grants […]
By SEAN GARDINER And CHRIS HERRING Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards could face up to six months in jail for violating probation after being arrested in Manhattan Tuesday morning on drunken driving charges. Police said Mr. Edwards’s 2007 Range Rover was stopped around 5 a.m. because officers believed his windows’ tint was too dark. He […]
After all, if the parents are fighting with each other, shouldn’t the court be the one voice that speaks first and foremost for the children?
It is great to be around so many lawyers who are committed to improving the practice of law.
I get excited when I have an opportunity to meet other professionals that can help me do my job better.
By Bill Rankin Doctors at Scottish Rite Children’s Hospital became suspicious of a couple’s complaint that their baby boy was having trouble breathing, so they put him in a room with hidden surveillance cameras. To her horror, a security guard watching a video monitor the next day saw the 3-month-old’s father enter the room and […]
1978. That was the first time in the history of the world that a child was conceived outside of a mother’s body, with a donated/borrowed egg and then successfully carried through pregnancy to life.
Unfortunately, the symbolic gesture of closure for many divorcing parties in the U.S. is a trial.
The McCourt’s (owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ baseball team) divorce trial is revealing many of the truisms of family law (to read the Associated Press article, click here.) In the article referenced above, Mr. McCourt mentions that each insistence by his wife on a post nuptial agreement reinforced his feelings that things were not […]
