Archive: 2014

In Wisconsin, at least, “legal custody” involves only decision making about six areas, few of which are ever in dispute. The determination of where the children live is called “physical placement.” In most cases, that is the battlefield.

Our disciplinary system is severely flawed. It’s dismaying to see how little the SC seems to understand and appreciate its own role in it.

While Texas has a statute requiring courts to accept settlement agreements, which Wisconsin does not, I was most impressed with the language of the decision recognizing the harm caused to children by litigation. Yet Wisconsin courts have consistently refused to recognize this harm.

I’ve been critical of several Wisconsin decisions which, in my opinion, fail to recognize that the best interests of children is promoted by limiting conflict, including litigation between the parents. No Wisconsin court seems to recognize the importance of resolution. But the Texas Supreme Court does.

The petition is to provide the public with information when an attorney is being investigated – not formally accused or convicted, but merely investigated.

I seem to have a lot of cases right now where one side simply will not accept that the marriage is over.

Occasionally, someone abuses the legal system by filing numerous motions, affidavits and other pleadings

This is not the first time CJ Abrahamson and Justice Bradley have dissented on the stricter side in disciplinary cases and once again I agree with their dissent.

A film I won’t be seeing anytime soon is a new documentary called “Divorce Corp,” billed as an “expose” on the divorce “industry.”

The skill in lawyering is knowing when to be aggressive – and when not to be.