Ten Things Never to Say About Your Ex- Spouse In Front of Your Children

All good advice, courtesy of Divorcemagazine.com:

10. I wish your mother (father) would drop dead.
9. I never loved your father (mother) anyway.
8. One of these days, so help me, I’m going to kill her (him).
7. I’m sorry I did such a horrible job picking your father (mother).
6. So where’d he (she) get the bimbo (bozo)?
5. Thank God you don’t look like her (him).
4. He (she) was really bad in bed.
3. Oh, he (she) never loved you kids anyway.
2. She (he) is fat and ugly and really stupid.
1. He (she) does not pay me nearly enough child support.

Same Sex Custody Case

Here is an interesting article from yesterday’s New York Times concerning the parental rightsa of a same sex couple who split up, as well as the tension that results when courts in states that do not recognize same sex civil unions must resolve such issues that emanate from states that do recognize those unions. I expect that we will see a lot more cases like this percolate through the court system in the years ahead as we as a nation continue to grapple with the issue of same sex marriages and civil unions.

San Francisco Appeals Gay Marriage Ruling

The City of San Francisco has taken an appeal to the California Supreme Court of an adverse ruling issued by an intermediate appellate court, which held that it is not the domain of the judiciary to define the meaning of the term “marriage,” and that California’s existing marriage laws do not discriminate against gays and lesbians. The Washington Post has this storyon the appeal.

Asset Hide and Seek

There is an interesting article in the November 13, 2006 issue of Forbes (subscription service required) concerning what the author implies is the growing phenomenon of divorcing spouses hiding assets from one another (although, interestingly, the asset hiders profiled in the article are overwhelmingly male. Could it be that wives don’t hide assets from their husbands? I don’t know the answer to that, but I doubt that it is the case).

Good Advice from a Beatle

Former Beatle Paul McCartney imparts what I think is some pretty good advice in this article  from E Online. Anyone going through a difficult family situation – or any legal problem for that matter – could do a lot worse than to follow Paul’s lead and strive to "maintain a little dignity" while working through the problem. You’ll find that the coping is easier,and the hurt last a little less long. This is not to say that you shouldn’t be diligent about protecting your rights and being treated fairly. But I think that there is something to the notion that fairness might be a little easier to reach if all sides tried to maintain that sense of dignity that Paul describes.

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