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The 2024 ACFLS Holiday Party was another great success and 102 family law specialists, judicial offi cers, and their respective families gathered at the Sir Frances Drake Hotel in San Francisco to celebrate each other, the holiday season, our award recipients and to just have fun. For those of you who missed it this year, be on the lookout for next year&rsqu...

LEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD: F...

Esther Rosenfeld, Jennifer J. Hagan

Introduction Transparency and full disclosure are at the heart of any equitable marital...

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE FALL 2023,...

Sherry Peterson, CFLS

Random Acts of Kindness  I honestly struggle when I sit down to write these messages...

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

RESPONSE TO CRIMINAL PROTECTIV...

Hon. Frank L. Birchak

I recently read the ACFLS Family Law Specialist publication for Summer 2023, No. 2. The ar...

ACFLS AMICUS COMMITTE FALL 202...

Fredrick (Rick) Cohen, Leslie Ellen Shear, CFLS

Work on the ACFLS Amicus Committee has its joys (getting opinions published and being cite...

Custody cases often require courts to make challenging decisions in the best interests of...

YES, VIRGINIA, THERE IS SOMETH...

Judge Marjorie A. Slabach, Ret.

Those of you who sat in thrall to the excellent panel presentation in the Palm Springs 202...

ACFLS has presented Preserving Your Appellate Rights in the Trial Court in two parts. Part...

On the rainy evening of September 27, 1849, the delegates of California’s first Cons...

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