Thomas Kenney, Rachel Leff-Kich

Retroactivity of support orders continues to be a hotbutton issue in California. Over the past six years, the appellate courts have found s...

Seth Kramer

As its name clearly indicates, the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists is an organization made up of attorneys who are certified...

Debra Frank

Happy New Year to All. Christine Gille should be back in her editor’s role for the next issue of the Family Law Specialist. Although family...

Lisa McCall

Motions in limine provide an opportunity for creative lawyering at the outset of a case. They are useful tools that may be utilized to narro...

Kenny Pierce

What is “phantom income”? “Phantom income” can be an issue when dealing with divorcing parties that have an ownership interest in a pass-th...

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

County Plans, Legal Separation, and Survivor Benefits. Despite California being a community property state, there are many examples of how...

Cari Pines, Kevin James Mooney

From organizing your office to creating pleadings or calendar entries, there’s an app for just about anything a family law attorney can imag...

Kim Cheatum

Introduction “[E]ither spouse has the management and control of the community personal property, … with like absolute power of disposition,...

Seth Kramer

Judge Thomas Trent Lewis would often say that family law attorneys are not only lawyers but also social engineers. I always took that to mea...

Debra Frank

Our lead article for this issue of the Specialist is Kim W. Cheatum’s (Law Office of Kim W Cheatum) guide for the family law practitioner to...

Lisa McCall, Marjorie Fuller

What it is, when you are entitled to one, why it matters, and how to process it  The statement of decision process is one of the most impor...

James Dooley

In People v. Sanchez, the 2016 California Supreme Court held expert witnesses can no longer relate case-specific hearsay facts to a fact-fin...

Jeremy J. Salvador

In April 2017, we were told that proposed federal tax reform would bring major changes. Many didn’t realize that one of those changes could...

Seth Kramer

There are many things about the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists that make me proud to be this organization’s president. But...

Debra Frank

Welcome to our combined Summer/Fall edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors for their contributions and a remin...