Robert Frost’s famous poem, “The Road Not Taken”1 provides a guiding lesson for family law practitioners in strategizing their cases. Often when commencing a complex case, we must choose which of the alternative paths to take. One such choice is the Disentitlement Doctrine, which instructs that a party in derogation or breach of a court ord...
Fredrick (Rick) Cohen, Leslie Ellen Shear, CFLS
Work on the ACFLS Amicus Committee has its joys (getting opinions published and being cite...
Leslie Ellen Shear, CFLS
Family Code section 3048 (the Synclair-Cannon Child Abduction Prevention Act of 2002) is t...