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Blackacre Facts, Your Honor   You are the judge in the Separatizer Sam/Communitizer Cora divorce.   Sam purchased Blackacre a week before marriage, making a $40,000 HSP down payment. CP made DOMDOS payments that reduced mortgage principal by $80,000. HSP made DOS-Current payments that reduced mortgage principal by another $20,000.   Blac...

California’s family law policies and remedies can be attractive to out-of-state part...

IS RETROACTIVITY STILL ON THE...

Thomas Kenney, Rachel Leff-Kich

Retroactivity of support orders continues to be a hotbutton issue in California. Over the...

As its name clearly indicates, the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists is an o...

Happy New Year to All. Christine Gille should be back in her editor’s role for the n...

Motions in limine provide an opportunity for creative lawyering at the outset of a case. T...

What is “phantom income”? “Phantom income” can be an issue when d...

LEGAL SEPARATION DOES NOT TERM...

Louise Nixon, Ann Fallon, Michael Low, Richard Muir, Lorrina Duffy

County Plans, Legal Separation, and Survivor Benefits. Despite California being a communi...

FAMTECH APP REVIEW

Cari Pines, Kevin James Mooney

From organizing your office to creating pleadings or calendar entries, there’s an ap...

Introduction “[E]ither spouse has the management and control of the community perso...

Judge Thomas Trent Lewis would often say that family law attorneys are not only lawyers bu...

EDITOR’S DESK

Debra Frank

Our lead article for this issue of the Specialist is Kim W. Cheatum’s (Law Office of...

THE STATEMENT OF DECISION PROC...

Lisa McCall, Marjorie Fuller

What it is, when you are entitled to one, why it matters, and how to process it  The...

In People v. Sanchez, the 2016 California Supreme Court held expert witnesses can no longe...

In April 2017, we were told that proposed federal tax reform would bring major changes. Ma...

Owning a piece of the California Dream can be expensive. As a result, it has become more...

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