News on the Home Front -- Mortgages and Foreclosures

Before I get to the meat of this post, I want to talk a bit about the nature of this particular blog, "On Maters of Family, Child Protection and Home."  

Beside my work in areas of general civil and labor/employment alternative dispute resolution, see On Being a Neutral, and  On New Mexico Labor and Employment Law, I am also increasingly engaged in New Mexico domestic relations, child protection and foreclosure matters nowadays.  "Domestic relations, child protection and foreclosure matters" may seem to you like an odd cast of characters to put together on your primarily labor-related resume, or to put together in one blog.  As to the resume, these are "hot" areas in mediation and my practice has necessarily evolved to go where the business is.  As to the blog, however, to me these areas are all connected by a common theme: what we do the rest of our day, away from work, e.g., home and family life.  Also, I frankly just had to cut myself off at the third blog!  

So, by way of that introduction, the following is my first post on matters of "home and heart," and what better inaugural topic than the present foreclosure crisis?

Custody and Visitation Rights of Domestic Partners

As a guardian ad litem (GAL) and domestic relations mediator in New Mexico, I take special interest in unusual court cases involving children. In Chatterjee v. King, 2011-NMCA-012 (cert granted Jan. 27, 2011, No. 32,789), the State Court of Appeals has recently issued a controversial and hotly disputed ruling regarding the custody rights of non-adoptive domestic partners. 

NM Abuse and Neglect Processes and Proceedings

Although I began my alternative dispute resolution (ADR) career in the labor/employment field, I have since expanded my practice to include domestic relation mediation and child protection related work, as I observed in my last blog posting.  This blog will address, generally, New Mexico law on child protection processes.

NM Separation, Divorce and Parentage Proceedings

Although I began my alternative dispute resolution (ADR) career in the labor/employment field, I have since expanded my practice to include domestic relation mediation and child protection related work.  Perhaps this seems like an odd combination to some.  However, I see a lot of similarities in these areas--work and family--in that both deal with intensely personal issues that affect major portions of our life's endeavors.  

I discuss neutrality principles generally and labor and employment issues in particular on my other blogs.  See On Being a Neutral, and  On New Mexico Labor and Employment Law.   Here, I will focus on "matters of family, child protection and home."  In this, my inaugural posting, I will address New Medico separation, divorce and parentage proceedings, from perspective of a domestic relations mediator.