While not directly on the topic of family law per se, Attorney Joe Balmer, head of the estate planning and probate department at Holzfaster, Cecil, McKnight & Mues, has written an important article on Medicaid planning that warrants reading.
Thanks to Ohio’s Long-term Care Partnership Program, which became effective in September of 2007, it is now possible to protect more of one’s assets from Medicaid spend down through the use of certain long-term health insurance policies. However, certain criteria must be followed and it is important to purchase any such policy from an experienced long-term health care insurance professional.
Long-term health care services include help with activities of daily living, home health care, respite care, hospice care, adult day care, nursing home care and assisted living facility care. Neither Medicare nor most traditional health care insurance plans cover most costs of long-term care. Statistics show that the current life expectancy of a 65 year old is 18 additional years and in 2005, 5 percent of all people 65 years or older resided in a nursing home. Therefore, if affordable, long-term, health care insurance should be a consideration … Read More... “New Strategies To Protecting Assets From Medicaid Through Long Term Health Care Insurance”
It is important that family law attorneys remain aware of the patterns of behavior found in cases involving possible parental alienation and pay heed to ongoing complaints by clients experiencing even the early stages of alienating behavior. Early in a custody case it can be very apparent that one parent is extremely angry, bitter or feels betrayed, by both the other parent and by expectations of the “system”. Having to share custody may only intensify the anger due to having to continue the relationship with a person they despise. Then a campaign begins to align the children to his or her side and together with the children work to destroy any viable relationship with the target parent.
Submitted by Robert L. Mues with legal research and assistance from Aaron Hill, an extern from the University of Dayton School of Law. 
A recent study correlating divorce rates among parents with ADHD children was recently conducted by Brian T. Wymbs and William E. Pelham, Jr., at the University of Buffalo, and published in the October, 2008, issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. The conclusions included that raising ADHD children can place a strain on any marriage. The results showed that 22.7% of couples with an ADHD child became divorced by the child’s 8th birthday, as contrasted with 12.6% in the control group whose child had not been diagnosed with ADHD. Interestingly, after the child reached the age of 8 years old, there was not a significant statistical difference in the divorce rates between couples with or without an ADHD child. For more information about the study, including the characteristics which may impact the likelihood of a divorce, 
I learned that in Greek mythology, Artemis was traditionally the friend and protector of women in childbirth and young children. Artemis, a female, was associated with a mythological forest. Accordingly, a saying developed over time- “no harm shall come to those who walk in the woods of Artemis.”
Don’t forget to discuss with your Dayton divorce lawyer before the final hearing if you want to be reinstated to a former name. This is the time to accomplish the name change with ease, and typically, without any additional costs! Procedures vary from court to court whether the name change can be submitted as part of the Final Decree or by way of a separate Court Order. Either way, it is easy, and the wife has the right to decide whether she wants to keep her married surname. No, husbands, you cannot require your ex to relinquish your surname. And wives cannot pick a new surname; they can only be reinstated to a maiden or former name.
Submitted by Robert Mues with legal research and assistance from Aaron Hill, an extern from the University of Dayton School of Law.