{"id":5062,"date":"2004-10-09T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2004-10-09T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/10\/09\/fixing-the-nys-divorce-machin"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:22","slug":"fixing-the-nys-divorce-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/09\/fixing-the-nys-divorce-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"fixing the NYS divorce machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The <\/FONT>Matrimonial Commission<\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>convened<\/FONT><\/A> by NYS Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye is in the news just as I’m <\/FONT>getting ready to drive to my nephew <\/FONT>Blake<\/FONT><\/A>‘s wedding.  The Commission “is charged with examining <\/FONT>every facet of the divorce process in New York and recommending reforms to correct existing problems.”  <\/FONT>There is a public <\/FONT>hearing<\/FONT><\/A> coming up in Albany in early November and ethicalEsq<\/EM> might just have to click <\/FONT>on the <\/FONT>registration form<\/FONT><\/A> link and participate.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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\"bridegroom  Issues of interest to our “former” editor <\/EM>include: how custody disputes can be resolved in a more child-friendly <\/FONT>manner, the role of divorce mediation (in the sole state without true no-fault divorce), and <\/FONT>assistance for pro se<\/EM><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/A> <\/FONT>litigants, along with the training and pay for court-appointed counsel.  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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waiting room–<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the ex-wife<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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no longer married<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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only their shadows touch<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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. . . graduation day<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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by <\/FONT>Roberta Beary<\/FONT><\/A>, from A New Resonance 2: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM> <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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If I don’t stop blogging and start packing, I’m gonna have to worry about strained family relations of my own.  I hope to stay off the computer for a couple days, but only time will tell.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Matrimonial Commission convened by NYS Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye is in the news just as I’m getting ready to drive to my nephew Blake‘s wedding.  The Commission “is charged with examining every facet of the divorce process in New York and recommending reforms to correct existing problems.”  There is a public hearing coming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1jE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13586,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5062\/revisions\/13586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}