Category Archives: Best In Blawg

Meetways – Online Handover Meetup Tool

The Minnesota Divorce and Family Law Blog is an excellent site for both regional and nationally relevant information.

The blog writes about a cool new web tool (no, not runpee.com, the site that tells you when you go pee during a movie). The gloriously simple idea of meetways.com is to let you find a convenient half-way point…

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The Banality of Sexual Orientation

On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court struck down the state statute banning same-sex marriage - just the third state to allow gay marriage, after Connecticut and Massachusetts (sorry, fickle California – but soon after, Vermont made it four – and the first to do so legislatively).   Most striking about the Iowa vote is that it was…

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Legal Tabloid Fun At Abovethelaw.com

Abovethelaw.com is a self-proclaimed legal tabloid on the legal profession. It’s professionally designed, humorous and sometimes even informative.  Mostly it’s just pithy, such as its take on big law firm schaudenfreude called “Skaddenfreude” after the mega-firm Skadden Arps.

There’s also a healthy dollop of family law snark:

  • ATL noted that some top Washington DC divorce lawyers actually

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The Nine Families Of Travis Henry

Stephen Worrall’s Georgia Family Law Blog offers lots of practical nation-wide information such as:

On a somewhat lighter note, Worrall writes that former NFL running back…

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Best In Blawg: Marriage Makes A Father

Julie Shapiro is a Seattle University Law Professor who writes like a human being.  In her blog, Related Topics, she discusses issues around the nation, including, for example, the proposed ban against adoptions by unwed couples in Kentucky and anti-fertility drug legislation in Georgia (in reaction to the recent Octuplet outrage).

This week Professor Shapiro discusses…

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Welcome to Decoupling – The Washington Family Law Blog

de⋅cou⋅ple
[dee-kuhp-uhl] verb, -pled, -pling.

  1. to cause to become separated, disconnected, or divergent; uncouple.
  2. to absorb the shock of (a nuclear explosion): a surrounding mass of earth and rock can decouple a nuclear blast.
  3. to separate or diverge from an existing connection; uncouple.

Origin: 1595–1605; de- + couple

What about Decoupling Blog?

Decoupling offers a simple guide…

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