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Introduction On July 20, 2015, the California Supreme Court issued In re Marriage of Davis, 61 Cal. 4th 846 (2015) (Davis). For the purpose of determining when a couple is “separated” and thus no longer acquiring community property, Davis adopted the reasoning from Norviel1 and construed the phrase “living separate and apart” as requ...

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

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APPLYING PEOPLE V. S...

Hon. Mark Simmons Hon. Thomas Trent Lewis Ret.

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

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

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

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THE SECRET OF THE OV...

Leslie Ellen Shear

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

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

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EDITOR'S DESK WINTER...

Naghmeh Bashar

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

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

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

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CONGRATULATIONS TO T...

Sherry Peterson, CFLS

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

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

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

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COMMUNITY PROPERTY O...

Christine Tour-Sarkissian

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

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE,...

Dianne Fetzer, CFLS

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

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

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