Honest Abe was a Family Lawyer
I just read a recent speech by Mark Baer given at the opening night of The Divorce Expo in Detroit Michigan on March 23, 2012. In it he states that Abraham Lincoln specialized in family law. Baer... Read More
Why Divorced People Should Forgive Their Exes
In a recent article in The Huffington Post, therapist Deborah Moskovitch quotes research done by Dr. Charlotte van Oyen Witvliet at Hope College in Michigan, who finds that when people “relived ... Read More
Video about Collaborative Divorce
IACP (International Association of Collaborative Professionals) has a video on their website that is a twenty minute film following the true life story of one couple as they proceed through their own ... Read More
Privacy a Consideration in Divorce
I just read that movie director Cameron Crowe and his wife, Nancy Wilson recently divorced using the collaborative law process. Cameron and Wilson, a member of the rock band Heart, must have been attr... Read More
Is the family courthouse really a “Perjury Palace”?
I just read an interesting OpEd piece by Sylvia Clute, author of “Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality: A Call for a Compassionate Revolution”. Her article is called “The CourtroomR... Read More
Gone: A Kindly Judge
Yesterday I attended the funeral of Judge Brent Burg, the Associate Judge of the 312th Judicial District Court of Harris County, Texas. The funeral home was packed with people. All of the seats were f... Read More
Family Courts are Overwhelmed
In early June, I heard a report from the Harris County District Clerk, Loren Jackson, that 77,000 new family law cases were filed in Harris County in 2009, to be handled by 9 Family District Courts an... Read More
What About the Children?
At a recent meeting of a family law organization, a speaker reported on a recent case that was heard by the Beaumont Court of Appeals. It involved a lesbian couple and their fight over visitation with... Read More