Archive: July 2012

Just when I thought I’d heard them all a husband requests placement for any first round NCAA championship game played by Syracuse.

Marry the right person, who will accept your changes and whose change you can accept.

The Court of Appeals decision in Tierney is just silly. That led to me thinking … what other family law rules are simply silly?

An article in today’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel entitled “Prosser May Use Campaign Account to Pay Legal Bills” raises several common questions about judicial politics and finances with an unusual twist.

There is something severely wrong with a person who plans for months to execute innocent people. But, that is not the standard for being Not Guilty by Reason of a Mental Disease or Defect.

Yes, the law sometimes works in mysterious ways. Take, for example, a recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinion that reached the right conclusion, although for somewhat convoluted reasons. In the process, the court has, thankfully, cleared up one of the more silly aspects of family law in Wisconsin.

Lawyers, especially courts in a common law system, need to be careful of the words they choose.

First question I was asked at my dentist’s office yesterday: “How was the Tom Cruise case resolved so quickly?”

Junk faxes are worse than spam email, because there is an incremental cost.

Smart Money Magazine recently published an article titled “10 Things Divorce Attorneys Won’t Say.” My response: If there are things divorce lawyers won’t tell their clients, it’s probably because they’re untrue.