In my first year of law school we studied the Kitty Genovese murder. In 1964 a young woman in Queens, New York, was stalked and stabbed, then stalked and stabbed, repeatedly, over almost an hour, outside her apartment complex, as her cries for help were heard but ignored by no less than 38 of her neighbors. It was…
April 28, 2009 – 10:44 am
This required Washington State form (formally called a Certificate of Dissolution, Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage or Legal Separation) is used by the Department of Health Statistics to collect data on divorces within the State of Washington. The Department of Health Statistics states that the primary purposes of this data collection effect are to “1) to provide a brief, legal…
April 27, 2009 – 11:45 am
There are 4 basic ways of appealing a court decision you don’t agree with:
- a Revision (to a Judge);
- a Reconsideration (back to the judge or commissioner who just ruled);
- an Appeal (to the Court of Appeals); and
- a CR60 motion (for cases of clerical error, fraud, etc.).
We looked at Revisions in an earlier post. …
Reuters reports that an Austrian woman was fined by a court for stalking her son just because she called him – a lot. Was she cruel (a rabenmutter), or just neglected? Hard to tell from the story…
The story notes:
The 73-year-old woman, who phoned her son up to 49 times a day was fined
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April 23, 2009 – 10:40 am
Washington State child support orders set out each parent’s responsibility for the child’s Extraordinary Medical Expenses.
This provision is found at paragraph 3.19 of the pattern form child support order.
An extraordinary medical expense is a medical expense which in one month amounts to more than 5% of the child support transfer payment.
If you are the parent receiving…
WHY YOU NEED IT
The Confidential Information Form must be filed with your Petition and other opening documents. The form itself asks for identifying information about you, your spouse, and your children – information such as social security numbers, addresses, drivers license numbers, addresses of employers, and so forth.
Though it is filed with the court, it is in fact…
CNN reports that a Saudi judge in the town of Onaiza has refused (a second time, this time on reconsideration) to annul the marriage between an 8-year old girl and a 47-year old man:
The girl’s father, according to the attorney, arranged the marriage in order to settle his debts with the man, who is “a close friend” of his.
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Going to court on a family law motion, even if you have a lawyer, can be a bewildering thing. There are rules, rules, and more rules – then there are customs that are generally followed but not even written down anywhere (like the purple cover sheet form used for family law motions for reconsideration, found at the family law motions…
April 20, 2009 – 10:08 am
Tired of waiting with your kids for a flaky ex who’s always late for visitation or doesn’t show up at all?
Try this: First, meet at a fast food place, such as McDonalds or Starbucks. If the handoff is supposed to be for 5:00 pm, buy something small, like a soda, right around 5. Then, before leaving in frustration,…
April 19, 2009 – 10:32 am
It’s hard to find any silver lining at all in the last month’s spate of gruesome, family murder-suicide shootings. So I have to appreciate the guardian angels looking after three wives who recently survived the respective killing sprees of their husbands in Silicon Valley, California, Graham, Washington, and now Jackson County, Mississippi.
In each…
