March 18, 2026 – Staying current is essential, and the latest updates from State Bar of Wisconsin PINNACLE® are designed to help you do that. These updated titles cover a wide range of needs, from advising older clients and navigating public records and open meetings issues to working with family law statutes and handling condemnation matters.

Check out these recently updated titles:

• Advising Older Clients & Their Families Vol. I
• Wisconsin Public Records and Open Meetings Handbook
• Wisconsin Family Code and Related Statutes and Rules 2026
• Condemnation Law and Practice in Wisconsin

Revised: Advising Older Clients and Their Families Volume I

Advising Older Clients and Their Families is written and updated by many of Wisconsin’s premier elder law attorneys, making it the foremost guide to elder law, specifically developed for Wisconsin lawyers.

This insightful overview of elder law is the perfect guide for building your elder law practice. You’ll learn about:

• protecting your clients’ rights and interests;

• ways to foster relationships with your clients; and

• handling initial client interviews and billing.

The guide’s citations to key cases, statutes, and regulations will inform you about the laws affecting the most dynamic areas of elder law practice, including:

• housing

• asset protection

• the ins-and-outs of Social Security benefits

This volume provides practice pointers, tips, charts, forms, and other tools essential to helping you build and maintain a successful elder law practice.

The 2025-26 revision includes these changes:

• The Older Americans Act legal assistance program provides legal advice and representation to adults age 60 years old or older with the greatest social need. Legal Action of Wisconsin was awarded Older Americans Act Title III-B Legal Services funding for 2026.

• Effective April 30, 2026, owners of HOME Investments Partnership program-assisted housing programs must comply with revised tenant-selection criteria.

• Dollar amounts of contribution limits for traditional, Roth, and SIMPLE (Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees) IRAs have been updated.

• Various Social Security benefit amounts and computations, including dollar amounts for earning work credits, have been updated.

This volume is part of the Books Unbound Library Collection: Estate Planning, Probate & Elder Law.

Supplemented: Wisconsin Public Records and Open Meetings Handbook

In Wisconsin, there is a statutory presumption in favor of access to governmental records and meetings. But there are limits to that access.

The Wisconsin Public Records and Open Meetings Handbook thoroughly explores Wisconsin’s laws on public records and open meetings:

• Part one discusses the practical applications of the public records law, including the notice provisions. There is also guidance on requesting records, responding to records requests, and applicable time limits.

• Part two takes a practical look at the open meetings law, discussing the definition of open, notice requirements, when a meeting may be closed to the public, and enforcement.

Both laws are reprinted in full in the appendix, as are other useful references.

The 2025-26 supplement includes discussions of:

• expanded protection for identities of election officials and election registration officials in the public records law;

• l​egislative changes to the judicial privacy protections enacted during the previous legislative session;

• a 2025 Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinion that addressed the issue of necessary parties to public records law cases; and

• a 2025 Wisconsin Court of Appeals opinion about whether a city’s common council violated the open meetings law.

Whether you represent a governmental entity or employee, or a private citizen seeking information from the government, this handbook is your guide to Wisconsin's public records and open meetings laws.

Updated: Wisconsin Family Code and Related Statutes and Rules 2026

Quickly find the key Wisconsin family law statutes and administrative rules you need. Wisconsin Family Code and Related Statutes and Rules reprints Wisconsin’s Family Code, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, and more than 50 related statutes governing child support, grandchild support, paternity, custody, court costs, and more. Relevant administrative rules are also included.

The 2026 edition is current through the 2023-24 Wisconsin statutes, as affected by Wisconsin Acts through 2025 Wis. Act 87. The administrative code provisions are current through the Wisconsin Administrative Register, No. 842 (eff. Mar. 1, 2026).

The 2026 edition includes recent legislation and administrative developments that

• amended the Wisconsin Family Code by creating a procedure for a divorce by affidavit; modifying the measurement of miles when a parent proposes to relocate with a child; and changing the income change notifications for child support or maintenance orders;

• recodified Wisconsin’s battery statutes (and modified cross-references throughout the Wisconsin statutes); and

• updated the federal poverty guidelines for 2026.

Revised: Condemnation Law and Practice in Wisconsin

You can find guidance and insight specifically on Wisconsin's condemnation law with the publication of Condemnation Law and Practice in Wisconsin.

The book covers both perspectives of the process: that of the condemning authority, and that of the property owner. It explains the circumstances under which the state may undertake a condemnation, and it outlines the requirements for doing so. The book also describes the processes that a property owner must follow to contest a proposed condemnation or to receive compensation for a taking.

Topics include:

• public policy behind condemnation

• procedural details

• costs and compensation

• parties' rights

• remedial options for those affected by condemnation

With Condemnation Law and Practice in Wisconsin, you will:

• gain an understanding of the process and the timelines that must be followed both by the condemning authority and by property owners;

• understand the rights of property owners;

• recognize the circumstances under which a condemnation may be commenced;

• learn the types of condemnations that may be initiated and the procedures that must be followed for each;

• take the appropriate actions to file a condemnation;

• advocate for fair compensation determinations;

• understand why and when to file an inverse condemnation claim; and

• file timely appeals from condemnation commission rulings.

You'll also find strategic and tactical advice for a condemnation trial. In short, this is the definitive text for litigating property rights in Wisconsin.

This volume is part of the Books Unbound Library Collection: Real Estate Law