If You Can Stop Your Divorce Client From Doing This, You Get A Prize.

18 Monday Aug 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Child Abuse, Divorce, Family Law, Parental Rights

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Alan Childress, Child Visitation, Divorce, Family Law, Judge Larry Primeaux, The Better Chancery Practice Blog

Top Ten Ways To Destroy A Child In A Divorce Or Custody Case, by Judge Larry Primeaux, The Better Chancery Practice Blog

http://chancery12.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/top-ten-ways-to-destroy-a-child-in-a-divorce-or-custody-case/

If you have spent any time at all in family law, then you know too well how destructive divorce can be. The court may admonish the parties against involving their children. The parties’ attorneys may give them the same advice. Why is it so unusual for a parent to resist using the child to hurt the soon-to-be ex-spouse? Judge Primeaux lists ten ways parents or others often hurt children in various ways during a divorce and urges lawyers to influence their clients to avoid this abusive and damaging behavior. -CCE

Expert Witness Lesson – Don’t Do This.

24 Monday Feb 2014

Posted by Celia C. Elwell, RP in Child Abuse, Expert Witnesses, Family Law, Judges

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Attorney Fees, Dr. V. Kavirajan, Dylan Farrow, Expert Witnesses, Family Law, New York Times, Rita Handrich, The Jury Room Blog, Woody Allen

What Expert Witnesses Should Not Do (Dylan, Woody & the Judge), posted by Rita Handrich, The Jury Room Blog

http://keenetrial.com/blog/2014/02/24/what-expert-witnesses-should-not-do-dylan-woody-the-judge/

The sad and painful tale of Dylan Farrow has emerged again following her letter to the NYT after Woody Allen received the Golden Globes Lifetime Achievement Award. Woody Allen responded to Ms. Farrow’s open letter and she responded to his response. The internet has been on fire with reactions, pro-Farrow, pro-Allen, and everything in between. You can find them with a simple internet search and we won’t link to them here.

This post isn’t really about the letter, the responses, or the internet reaction to them. Instead, it’s about the original judge in the dispute and a cautionary tale for the attorneys who hire expert witnesses everywhere. I first saw the judge’s written opinion when it was sent around on a mailing list. It reads like a ‘don’t do this’ text for the would-be forensic expert witness. There are so many legitimate reasons this case would not have succeeded at trial–regardless of Mr. Allen’s actual culpability. . . .