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Editor’s Note: The holdings from various cases are below. Dawn Gray’s extensive summaries of those cases, too lengthy to publish in the Newsletter, are on the ACFLS website on the Current Newsletters page. The full text of her short summaries of other cases of interest is also provided below and on the website. Andrew V. v. Superior Cou
In 2016, the California Supreme Court reinstated a traditional hearsay rule applicable to expert testimony and triggered a tsunami: experts would no longer be able to relate to the trier of fact inadmissible hearsay that had formed a basis for an opinion. Because Sanchez interpreted the hearsay rule, the ruling applied not only to criminal cases, b
This month marks the end of my tenure as president of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists (ACFLS)—an honor that certainly has been a high point of my professional career. As president I presided over the quarterly meetings of the ACFLS Board of Directors, and it was a privilege to collaborate with the hard-working members who
Welcome to our Winter edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors for their contributions. During my time as editor and associate editor, I am proud that the ACFLS Journal has been able to present scholarly articles on major issues, controversies, and changes in family law, including Elkins and Davis. We are continuing this
