Article by: Adopt Help, Giving the Gift of Family There is great news for prospective adoptive parents! For 2019, the federal adoption tax credit is $14,080. The amazing thing about this tax credit is that it is not a deduction that reduces your income for the purpose of determining your tax liability. Rather, it is [...]
Jessie Balmert, jbalmert@enquirer.comPublished 2:10 p.m. ET Oct. 9, 2017 | Updated 10:31 a.m. ET Nov. 2, 2017 COLUMBUS - Issue 1, also known as Marsy's Law, seems like a slam dunk. After all, who would vote against a crime victims' bill of rights? "Supporting victims of crime is something that we all can agree on because it [...]
Marsy's Law will be on the ballot in a couple of weeks and you should know more about it before you sign on the dotted line. All versions of Marsy’s Law on the ballot this year would make it a state constitutional right for people directly harmed by a crime to request and receive notification [...]
Posted on the Northern Kentucky Tribune First Lady Glenna Bevin joined with the Governor’s Office of Faith and Community Based Initiatives, Orphan Care Alliance, and 16 local organizations in Hardin County to launch “Uniting the Community” on Sunday. This new initiative engages the faith community, local government, and nonprofit organizations to empower Kentucky families to [...]
By TOM LATEK, Kentucky Today FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – A new committee created as part of the adoption and foster care reform legislation passed in the spring met for the first time on Monday. The committee selected co-chairman – Sen. Julie Raque Adams and Rep. David Meade – by acclamation. Meade, who was instrumental in [...]
Jason Griffith, Opinion contributor for Cincinnati.com provided an insightful piece on this new legislation that took affect this month titled "Opinion: Black fathers benefit from Ky.'s new joint custody law". House Bill 582 makes Kentucky the first state to have a shared parenting from the beginning. On July 14, Kentucky became the first state with [...]
It's true. I suppose you can't be surprised to see this, but it is nice to see people finding new ways to getting their legal needs met. Law firms are already inside some US Wal-Marts "When Evan Kaine, a personal injury attorney in Atlanta read a story in the May 2016 issue of the ABA Journal [...]
A new Connecticut law that went into effect Oct. 1 offers residents an opportunity to part ways with their spouses expeditiously without the red tape that can tie up divorces for months. The new law is called the Nonadversarial Dissolution of Marriage and offers two simplified ways spouses can obtain a divorce. With one process, [...]
BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY, Ky. —A Breckinridge County couple claiming to live an off-the-grid lifestyle will not regain custody of their 10 children on Monday, a family representative says. The kids were taken away last week after the state determined their living conditions were unsafe. Since then the couple's story has gone viral online. Read More...
