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Blackacre Facts, Your Honor   You are the judge in the Separatizer Sam/Communitizer Cora divorce.   Sam purchased Blackacre a week before marriage, making a $40,000 HSP down payment. CP made DOMDOS payments that reduced mortgage principal by $80,000. HSP made DOS-Current payments that reduced mortgage principal by another $20,000.   Blac...

Editor’s Note: The holdings from various cases are below. Dawn Gray’s extensiv...

APPLYING PEOPLE V. SANCHEZ TO...

Hon. Mark Simmons, Hon. Thomas Trent Lewis Ret.

In 2016, the California Supreme Court reinstated a traditional hearsay rule applicable to...

This month marks the end of my tenure as president of the Association of Certified Family...

Welcome to our Winter edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors...

Thank you, Carolyn Keene1 Our work sometimes brings out my inner Nancy Drew.23 One of the...

We recently celebrated the holiday party wherein we said goodbye to a few of our friends t...

On December 17, 2019, the Honorable Thomas Trent Lewis retired from his long-standing posi...

Introduction Let’s explore Marriage of Anka and Yeager (2019) 31 Cal. App.5th 1115 (Anka)...

Being with Tommy for 47 years, a mark of his character is his humility, decency, integrity...

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2019 AC...

Sherry Peterson, CFLS

Congratulations to the Honorable B. Scott Thomsen, recipient of the 2019 Hall of Fame awar...

Sherry Peterson, Ari Levy and David Lederman have taken ACFLS to the highest level of educ...

At the ACFLS 2019 Annual Holiday Party held on Saturday night, December 7, 2019, at the Si...

COMMUNITY PROPERTY OR EVIDENCE...

Christine Tour-Sarkissian

In November 2018, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Brace v. Spe...

Family law, in my opinion, is the most complex area in the practice of law. Not only do we...

That is Impact! Last Issue, ACFLS honored the Honorable Judge Trent Lewis who retired on D...

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