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...
Jeremy Salvador
President Donald Trump signed Public Law 115-97, otherwise known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs...
Dianne Fetzer
It is with great pleasure that I join the coveted ACFLS President’s seat especially...
Naghmeh Bashar
Taking the “I” Out and Replacing It With the “We” As I sit to wr...
David Lederman, CFLS
The 2018 ACFLS Holiday Party was another great success. For those of you who missed this e...
Joseph J. Bell
Grant to be presented to Executive Director Toni Novak in San Francisco on December 1, 201...
Dorie Rogers, CFLS
There is no area in family law in which the court has greater discretion than when making...
Peggy Swearingen, CPA, ABV, CFF
When preparing an analysis of the parties’ income for purpose of setting support, th...
Stephen A. Montagna, CFLS
I remember my second year of law school, sitting in an uncomfortable yet sturdy chair list...
Diane Wasznicky, JD, CFLS
The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (“AFCC”), whose members incl...
Marc Peter Kaplan, CFLS
Without fail, all of us receive some-to-many calls from stressed-out client(s), usually th...