Archive for divorce
Divorce or “Voidance”?
Although one Texas judge found that she had jurisdiction over the divorce proceedings involving a gay couple (by reading the state’s constitutional ban on same-sex marriages as trumped by the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equality), that isn’t the result you’re going to get in most courts.
In this latest case from Texas, a same-sex couple legally [...]
Dallas Judge Declares Texas’s Ban on Same-Sex Marriages Violates the Federal Constitution
Courts sometimes find themselves in a bind: Stray too far from public opinion (even if constitutional principles seem to compel doing so), and they risk vilification and loss of the public’s confidence on which they, to an extent, depend for legitimacy. But ignore the reality of the litigants before them, and they run the risk [...]
Enabling “Mad Men” — Part I: The Betty Chronicles
During a recent vacation in Maine, the four adults in the house gathered what was left of ourselves after our kids had finally gone to sleep, and plowed through the entire second season of Mad Men. (We’d done the same with the first season during last year’s vacation.) One week, thirteen episodes on DVD: now [...]