Winning too big

May 22, 2010

Very early in my career I handled my first contested custody case which resulted in my client, a young medical student, obtaining custody of his

The attorneys or clients who cry wolf

May 21, 2010

In Aesop’s fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” a shepherd boy entertains himself by repeatedly pretending a wolf is attacking his sheep.  Each time

The picayune distinction between amended and supplemental pleadings

May 19, 2010

Are there other family law attorneys out there who file supplemental pleadings?  In my sixteen plus years of family court practice, I can’t recall any.

New Frequently Asked Questions

May 18, 2010

The ability to easily add pages to my web site combined with the increasing understanding that many clients and potential clients ask me similar questions

United States Supreme Court applies Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction to Chilean custody order

May 17, 2010

In today’s 6-3 decision in the case of Abbott v. Abbott, 130 S.Ct. 1983 (2010) the United States Supreme Court decided that a non-custodial parent’s ne

Like surgery on suicides

May 16, 2010

In representing parents who are unreasonably resistant to the other parent’s relationship with the child, I often feel like I am performing surgery on suicides,

Red Family, Blue Family

May 10, 2010

Very interesting oped piece in today’s New York Times by its token conservative columnist Russ Douthat, Red Family, Blue Family.  It uncannily describes what I observe

Easy clients/hard clients

May 6, 2010

A spouse or parent walks into an attorney’s office with a “relationship” problem: he isn’t getting along with his wife and wants out of the

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