Archive: 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.

My friend, Nate Cade, posted a link on FB to an article entitled “How to Stay Married to an Attorney.”

My latest column in the Wisconsin Law Journal is my somewhat whimsical speculation on same-sex divorce.

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?

On January 20, 2015, the Wisconsin Supreme Court released its decision in State v. Alger.

Since the 5th Circuit ruling was not stayed, same-sex couples are now routinely getting marriage in Wisconsin (and elsewhere).

Wisconsin CA decided life insurance provision was in the nature of child support and thus ended when the children were no longer minors.

It is common, where there are minor children, for a divorce agreement to require at least the payor of child support and sometimes both parties to maintain life insurance with the children as beneficiaries. A recent unpublished, but citeable, Wisconsin Court of Appeals case has implications for some of these divorce cases.

Co-parenting really does not need 11 commandments. It needs one.