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...
Esther Rosenfeld, Jennifer J. Hagan
Introduction Transparency and full disclosure are at the heart of any equitable marital...
Sherry Peterson, CFLS
Random Acts of Kindness I honestly struggle when I sit down to write these messages...
Debra Frank
Welcome to our fall edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors f...
Hon. Frank L. Birchak
I recently read the ACFLS Family Law Specialist publication for Summer 2023, No. 2. The ar...
Fredrick (Rick) Cohen, Leslie Ellen Shear, CFLS
Work on the ACFLS Amicus Committee has its joys (getting opinions published and being cite...
Deborah H. Wald
Custody cases often require courts to make challenging decisions in the best interests of...
Judge Marjorie A. Slabach, Ret.
Those of you who sat in thrall to the excellent panel presentation in the Palm Springs 202...
Lisa McCall
ACFLS has presented Preserving Your Appellate Rights in the Trial Court in two parts. Part...
S. Roger Rombro
On the rainy evening of September 27, 1849, the delegates of California’s first Cons...