Archives: Caselaw

It doesn’t take a village to raise children. It takes parents. That’s one of the central implications of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals recent decision is Lubinski v. Lubinski.

After nearly nine months without a Wisconsin Court of Appeals case arising from a divorce action being recommended for publication, late last month, the District I Court of Appeals its opinion in Lubinski v. Lubinski.

A song by the Temptations comes to mind after reading Steinmann v. Steinmann. “Ball of Confusion.” That’s what the law of maintenance is today.

This is the second of three articles analyzing the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision in Steinmann v. Steinmann, examining its implications for marital property agreements.

Last month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued its decision in its only pending family law case, Steinmann v. Steinmann. This is the first of three articles which will discuss the case, and its puzzling implications.

In this series of articles, Attorney Gregg Herman discusses the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision in Steinmann v. Steinmann, which dealt with post-nuptial marital property agreements and property division issues.

This is the last of a series of three articles discussing the recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision in Wright v. Wright, No. 2006AP2111 (Wis. Ct. App. Dec. 4, 2007), which was recommended for publication. As discussed in the previous articles, the appellate court affirmed most of the trial court’s rulings on property division, which  […]

This is the second in a series of three articles discussing the recent Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision in Wright v. Wright, No. 2006AP2111 (Wis. Ct. App. Dec. 4, 2007) (recommended for publication). As discussed in the previous article, the appellate court affirmed most of the trial court’s rulings on property division, holding that the […]

The following series of articles, which originally ran in Wisconsin Law Journal, discusses the court’s holding in Wright v. Wright and its possible ramifications on property division and spousal maintenance.

May a circuit court use its remedial contempt powers to craft a remedy, where a party fails to provide tax returns and income information in a timely manner as required under statute, a divorce judgement, and a court order, but then the party produces the information just before the contempt hearing? The Wisconsin Supreme Court says “Yes.”