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...
Belinda Hanson, Joyce Chang
I. INTRODUCTION Imagine it is the eleventh hour of the final day of a multiday settlement...
Sherry Peterson, CFLS
TEAMWORK The Foundation and Engine of ACFLS Teamwork has been defined as the coll...
Debra Frank
Welcome to our Winter edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors...
Tanya E. Prioste
It’s time to change the default model for creating a premarital agreement. For too l...
Ariel Leichter-Maroko
INTRODUCTION In the past decade, the financial landscape has witnessed a transformative e...
Abbas Hadjian
California family law practitioners are behind the rest of the country in dealing with cul...
Mark Sullivan
Introduction – “What’s SBP?” The Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) is o...
Greg Ellis
Introduction. Written briefs are a substantial component of advocacy in the trial court a...
S. Roger Rombro
The community property laws under the Spanish Mexican system directed that all income acqu...