Archive: February 2015
Soft Attorney Discipline in Wisconsin
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Counts included two criminal convictions, one of them a felony. Amazingly, that did not result in a revocation of attorney’s license.
Maintenance Guidelines
Published: Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
Are maintenance guidelines good ideas? In my opinion, they are OK if they allow for judicial discretion if they are guidelines instead of standards.
How to Stay Married to an Attorney
Published: Thursday, February 19th, 2015
My friend, Nate Cade, posted a link on FB to an article entitled “How to Stay Married to an Attorney.”
Same Sex Divorce
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
My latest column in the Wisconsin Law Journal is my somewhat whimsical speculation on same-sex divorce.
Rewriting the Book on Marriage
Published: Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
With same-sex marriage now legal in 36 states — and probably legal in all 50 after the U.S. Supreme Court rules next summer — same-sex divorces will follow in due course. Will there be any differences between opposite-sex divorces and same-sex divorces?
State v. Alger Affirmed
Published: Monday, February 2nd, 2015
On January 20, 2015, the Wisconsin Supreme Court released its decision in State v. Alger.