Tag Archives: Family Law

How Using Latest Technology Can Lower Stress During Your Child Custody Lawsuit, by J. Benjamin Stevens, South Carolina Family Law Blog (with hat tip to Jim Calloway’s Law Practice Tips)

21 Monday Mar 2022

Posted by in Apps, Divorce, Family Law

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https://www.offitkurman.com/blog/2022/03/10/how-using-latest-technology-can-lower-stress-during-your-child-custody-lawsuit/

Family law takes a special breed. How often have you received a call from your client complaining that the soon-to-be-ex-spouse forgot the child’s teacher/parent conference, was late to pick up the child for a doctor appointment, or disagrees how to parent in a given situation? It happens all too often, and punches a divorce client’s button every time.

What if your client had a way to permanently, securely document and communicate with the other party about appointments, vacations, homework assignments, and all the other hot-button issues that pop up?

Mr. Stevens has the best solution I have seen. Online portals, such as Our Family Wizard, provides a color-coded calendar and message board for the parents. The calendar helps to avoid miscommunication about things such as appointments, visitation schedules, and school events. Messages posted on the message board cannot be deleted, redacted, or edited in any way, providing a communication log that can be used in court.

Mr. Stevens’ has generously shared additional online portals and apps for family scheduling, school, and medical communication that make it easier for each parent to stay informed. It helps to cut down on your client’s stress, the parties’ disagreements, and the frequent calls to your office. This technology is easy to use and good for your practice and your client. -CCE

Limited License Legal Technicians – Can They Really Practice Law?

23 Saturday May 2015

Posted by in Family Law, Limited License Legal Technician Program, Paralegals/Legal Assistants, Regulation, Unauthorized Practice of Law, Washington Supreme Court

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Future or Folly: Limited License Legal Technicians, by 2Civility, Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism (with hat tip to William P. Statsky)

http://tinyurl.com/lk9jap6

It’s graduation time. This year, there is a brand new class of graduates in the State of Washington: Limited License Legal Technicians (LLLTs). These graduates are from a unique legal educational program—not a traditional law school. Yet they will eventually have a law license to perform limited legal services in family law. . . .

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

18 Monday Aug 2014

Posted by in Child Abuse, Divorce, Family Law, Parental Rights

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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

Are Patent Rights A Marital Asset?

10 Saturday May 2014

Posted by in Divorce, Family Law, Intellectual Property, Marital Asset, Patent Law

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Patent Rights are a Marital Asset and Non-Inventing Spouse is a Co-Owner, by Dennis Crouch, Patently-O Blog

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James Taylor v Taylor Made Plastics (Fed. Cir. 2014)

I should note here that this case is neither about the musician or the golf club company. Rather, it is about the now fractured Taylor family and their patented pipe plugs. I discussed the district court decision earlier here.

Several years ago James T. invented storm drain equipment and obtained a patent in his name only. U.S. Patent No. 5,806,566. When he and his wife Mary T. later divorced, the divorce court ordered “equitable distribution of marital property” with Mary T. receiving 60% of proceeds from the patent and James T. receiving 40%. The divorce court seemingly only dealt with equitable title in the form of rights-to-proceeds and not with legal title to the patent itself. And, in particular, the divorce court did not identify who held the exclusive rights associated with the patent. . . .

Expert Witness Lesson – Don’t Do This.

24 Monday Feb 2014

Posted by in Child Abuse, Expert Witnesses, Family Law, Judges

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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. . . .

Compilation of Resources on Adoption Law.

21 Friday Feb 2014

Posted by in Adoption Law, Family Law, Indian Child Welfare Act, Legal Directory, Parental Rights, References

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Adoption Law, HG.org

http://www.hg.org/adoption.html

A compilation of information about adoption, starting with a brief explanation of this area of law, termination of parental rights, open vs. closed adoptions, adoption by a step-parent, and working with an adoption law. This is interesting but the meat comes next, in my opinion, in the sections on knowing your rights, articles on adoption law, and so on. You might also take note at the top of the web page of a hyperlink to “Family Law,” which provides a good overview of that area of law as well.

HG.org (formerly Hieros Gamos.org) is a free legal directory with an abundance of information about American law. It provides a search engine to look for attorneys, topics of law, and more. If you have not already spent time looking at each section of this legal directory, I encourage you to do so.

HG.org is not the only legal directory, but I think it is one of the best. I have already provided a list of similar resources on the Internet at https://researchingparalegal.com/2013/10/23/some-of-the-best-free-legal-research-guides-on-the-internet-no-wikipedia-does-not-count/. If you have not already had an opportunity to visit that link, I think you will find the resources there worth bookmarking. -CCE