Archive: 2021

My dear late mother used to say: It takes an awfully ill wind not to blow some good.

Some things sound better on paper than they turn out to be in real life.

At the beginning of the COVID pandemic, the prevailing “wisdom” was that divorce filings would substantially increase. Actually, the opposite occurred.

Last month, I took a look at the Wisconsin Supreme Court decisions in family law in the past year.

Although most of my columns on family law criticize courts (it’s more entertaining than praising them), I am going to start my new project by praising our legal system. Although, for the most part, during the interim between the election and inauguration most politicians have looked disingenuous (and that’s a mild term), the courts almost uniformly have not.