Jun 23, 2017 | Family Law, Uncategorized
Judge Morison Buck wrote the “Chips Off the Old Bench” column in the Hillsborough County Bar Association’s publication, Lawyer. Judge Buck passed away in 2014; however his biographies of 58 Hillsborough County judges are preserved. They make...
May 25, 2017 | Family Law, Uncategorized
Dual diagnosis is a term for when someone experiences a mental illness and a substance abuse problem simultaneously. A person experiencing a mental health condition may turn to drugs and alcohol as a form of self-medication to improve the troubling mental health...
May 18, 2017 | Family Law, general law, Uncategorized
One recurring problem that I observe in the practice of family law is when a person who suffers from mental illness stops taking medication. With this problem in mind, I began to search for solutions. This is what I found: About one-third of people with...
Mar 16, 2017 | Family Law, general law, government
In the United States, it is not uncommon for people to marry outside of their religion. However, Indonesia is one of about two dozen countries with no provision for civil marriages. Others include Israel and almost all of the Arab states. In these countries, only...
Jan 13, 2017 | Family Law
George Washington was not an intellectual giant like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or James Madison. Compared with most other founders, he was not well educated (he attended school for only about five years), and, unlike many of them, he disliked...
Jan 5, 2017 | Family Law, Uncategorized
With five simple words in the Declaration of Independence– “all men are created equal”–Thomas Jefferson undid Aristotle’s ancient formula: “from the hour of their birth some men are marked out for subjection, others for...
