The romantic notion that California has always been a community property state with a concomitant equality between spouses is false. It is true that the delegates to California’s 1849 constitutional convention did focus upon married women’s property rights. Their focus, however, was limited to separate property. Moreover, although the delegates d...
Deborah H. Wald
On June 26, 2013, the United States Supreme Court issued its historic rulings in the compa...
Lulu L. Wong
When I look back on time served on the ACFLS board, Many years from now, I won’t rem...
Dawn Gray, CFLS
McClintock v. West (2013) 219 Cal.App.4th 540, 162 Cal.Rptr.3d 61. Holding: The trial co...
Stephen H. Kennedy
A Short History – Reform: Organizational changes were made to the State of Californ...
Debra Frank
I’m very excited to serve as Editor of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist for the 2014...
Hon. Thad A. Blizzard
Having completed a year as a family court judge, with no prior family law experience, I ta...
M. Sue Talia
Most family lawyers have done some limited scope representation, and we know that when it...
Mark E. Sullivan
When you’re doing a military divorce case and it comes time to deal with the militar...
Vivian L. Holley
At the recent CEB Conference of Family Law, the hot topic of the day was whether our clien...
Heidi Tuffias
When I first started practicing law fax machines had just come in and used that weird, cha...