Family Law

The Science of Happiness
The Los Angeles Times gives the phrase "pursuit of happiness" a run in the Times' reflection of happiness as a process rather than a goal. Marnell Jameson writes, If recent scientific research on happiness -- and there has been quite...

Wealth Does Not Necessarily Equal Happiness
The Le Van Company has recently posted on its website an article entitled Notes on Social Intelligence, Part VI: Finding the Social ?Sweet Spot?, discussing among other things the interplay of happiness and wealth...

Wo! Money Does Buy Happiness Man, Did I Make A Wrong Turn.
Now I figure out why I have been miserable all of these years. The old wives tell that money does not buy happiness is wrong. In fact, money can buy happiness according to an article in Wall Street Journal Bog...

Pleasure Interrupted. Happiness Not So Much.
I am pretty much a happy guy. I like what I am doing even if it is not always cracked up to what I want it to be. Like everyone, I have moments, and clients, and cases, and events that get in the way...

Does Religious Belief Increase Happiness
Todd's excellent recent post on academics and happiness also raises the much broader question of whether religious belief causes happiness. Some studies, including Arthur Brooks' recent important work, do...

Happiness and Punishment - Abstract
John Bronsteen, Christopher Buccafusco, and Jonathan Masur, have recently posted their interesting new paper, “Happiness and Punishment” on SSRN.  Here’s the abstract...

Child Support
Finding the Noncustodial Parent ( Deadbeat Dads )

Gay Marriage Laws
Where same sex couples can marry

Hawaii Divorce Laws
How to end a marriage in paradise

Divorce Laws
How to end a marriage

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Family Law
involving divorce, child custody, spousal support, common law, adoption and same sex marriage.