Welcome to The Association of Certified Family Law Specialists

2009 ACFLS President Joseph P. Bell presents outgoing president Sharon Bryan with flowers at ACFLS holiday party
Joseph P. Bell and Sharon Bryan

Welcome, from the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists in California, an independent association of California divorce and family law attorneys.

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Latest News: 

2009 Spring Seminar:  Save the Date!

 

Seventeenth Annual ACFLS Spring Seminar: Complex Property Characterization & Disposition Issues
April 17-19, 2009


Note the new dates!

ACFLS is proud to present another seminar in our series of single-issue, in-depth family law practice seminars, offering an opportunity to attend intense and fascinating programs in the morning and enjoy the afternoon pursuing leisure activities in sunny Palm Springs.  Next year’s program will again include our famous friendly Friday night cocktail party and Saturday gala dinner.

The presenters will include: Robert E. Blevans, James M. Crawford, Jr., Garrett C. Dailey, R. Ann Fallon, Ronald S. Granberg, Dawn Gray, Jerry E. Randall, Steven J. Wagner, Peter M. Walzer, and D. Thomas Woodruff.  Our commentators will be Hon. Justices Donald B. King (Ret’d.), Hon. Judge Jerilyn Borack, Hon. Thomas Trent Lewis, and Garrett C. Dailey.

We are holding our 2009 event at a new venue, the Wyndham Palm Springs Hotel.

Please mark your calendar with this important event, and stay tuned for more detailed information and sign-up options.

 

ACFLS DVD library expanded!

See all available titles here, and earn your continuing education hours in the comfort of your own home or office.

Just print out the order form and fax or mail your order today.

New titles include Sacramento presentations on Domestic Violence and Tassi Tracing.  Among our most popular titles is the January 2008 presentation on Marriage of Feldman:  Get all three hours of this ground-breaking program, A Systematic Method of Enforcing Fiduciary Duties: Analysis and Discussion of Marriage of Feldman, including printed materials, for only $175 (including tax and two-day priority shipping). 

You can also order this thee-hour program via 123Signup; we have entered the item as an "event" (arbitrarily dated 3/15/09) to facilitate ordering for our members and others.  Other programs that are accessible through our Online Lecture Series are also available as DVDs that can be purchased by downloading and faxing an order form to Lynn, our executive director.

Online Library Expanded

We have recently added two programs to our online library of one-hour seminars:

Everything Family Law Practitioners Should Know About Revised Family Code §2337 (Bifurcations), presented by R. Ann Fallon and James M. Craword, Jr. on January 22, 2008

Issues Related to the Use of Psychological Testing in Evidence Code §730 Child Custody Evaluations, presented by Sidney K. Nelson, Ph.D.

 

These programs can be viewed live on your computer or downloaded in audio form to transfer to your iPod or MP3 player.  Just click on the "Lecture Series" link on the left of this page.

 

Los Angeles Court Child Custody Brochures

Courtesy of the Hon. Robert Alan Schnider, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge, we have some excellent child custody brochures on our website. The brochures are in Adobe pdf format and can be printed two-sided to create trifold pamphlets. Click to access the brochures.

For information about custody, support and other legal issues, or about mediation, collaborative law and other legal alternatives, select For the Public.

 

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* Certified Specialist in Family Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization