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...
Kim Cheatum
Introduction “[E]ither spouse has the management and control of the community perso...
Seth Kramer
Judge Thomas Trent Lewis would often say that family law attorneys are not only lawyers bu...
Debra Frank
Our lead article for this issue of the Specialist is Kim W. Cheatum’s (Law Office of...
Lisa McCall, Marjorie Fuller
What it is, when you are entitled to one, why it matters, and how to process it The...
James Dooley
In People v. Sanchez, the 2016 California Supreme Court held expert witnesses can no longe...
Jeremy J. Salvador
In April 2017, we were told that proposed federal tax reform would bring major changes. Ma...