News and comments about divorce, child support, child custody, alimony, equitable property distribution, father’s rights, mother’s rights, family law, laws on divorce and other legal information in Maryland.
Alltop.Com has added our blogs, Maryland Divorce Legal Crier and Fathers’ Rights: Not Just Every Other Weekend, to its family law page. You can access many family law blogs in different states from this one site.
John Bolch, a solictor in England, who writes the “Family Lore” blog, kindly gave us an award. It is reprinted with his permission below.
Sometimes a blog post strikes a particular chord, and you think: ‘Yes, of course, why didn’t I write that?’ Such was the case when I came across the post ‘Fuzzy Logic‘, written by James Gross of the Maryland Divorce Legal Crier (love that name). Often, over the years, I have had clients of a ‘logical persuasion’ (scientists, bankers, accountants etc.) who have clearly expected me to come up with a definitive answer to their problems. Alas, I have to explain, family law does not work like that: there is often no ‘definitive’ answer to a problem, just a series of possibilities. This is what James has posted about, somewhat more elegantly than me, and the post wins my May Post of the Month award. I shall have to remember the Heisenberg uncertainty principle next time…
The prize? A virtual subscription to Scientific American, for James to display prominently in his reception area, just to prove to clients that he is not averse to a bit of logic himself.
John Thyden was quoted in an article on Marriage and Money in Good Housekeeping:
“Financial issues are the primary reason for 90 percent of divorce cases I handle,” says John Thyden, a prominent Washington, D.C., divorce attorney. “But it isn’t necessarily the amount of money a couple has that tends to trip them up. It’s the differences in their spending habits and especially their lack of communication.”
And Mary Beth Long, who writes the VA Family Law Blog, had these mellifluous words to say about us:
“Keeping it short, succinct and entertaining. The gent who writes the Maryland Divorce Legal Crier has a neat style. It is like a New Yorker cartoon morphed into a family law blog: quirky, entertaining and thought-provoking but, best of all, brief. He may quote lyrics from a country song, give marriage preservation tips or explain the difference between extrinsic and intrinsic fraud. All is a couple hundred words. Bravo!”
