All of You: Time to Pester Your Elected Representatives

Those of you who've followed this blog for more than a post or two have long since tired of my, and others' yelling about the fact that trial courts, and particularly family law trial courts, have been getting a raw deal in terms of funding.  Now, it's official.

After the Love Is Gone, After The Pink Slip Arrives...

All over the country, as the employment picture becomes gloomier, folks all over who were previously ordered, or agreed to pay moderate amounts of child and spousal support, based on their previous moderate earnings, are going back to court to modify those orders, because they no longer have the moderate earnings to pay from. As with the down-turn in economy generally, the phenomenon, noted first on the East coast, has rolled slowly westward, like a big ugly snowball. Recession, like divorce, "unsettles many of the parties' significant plans and assumptions, no matter how carefully crafted during"* better times.

Marriage of Destein (2001) 91 CA4th 1385, 1394