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...
Seth Kramer
There are many things about the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists that make...
Debra Frank
Welcome to our combined Summer/Fall edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks...
Belinda Hanson, Jeff Makoff
It’s an increasingly common scenario—you engage in multiple rounds of settleme...
James Schaefer
Have you ever noticed that forensic accountants seem to always disagree … and the m...
Greg Ellis
The right to appeal a California superior court decision is statutory.1 The principal stat...
Robert Roth
This article reviews the key rules for stays pending appeal in family law cases. Understan...
Charles Goldstein, Joseph Goldstein
Every owner of a law practice has two jobs. One is practicing law and the other is running...
Rick Cohen, CFLS
ACFLS’s Amicus Committee provides a major benefit to certified family law specialist...
Seth Kramer
Thirty years ago I became a certified family law specialist—a designation that was t...
Debra Frank
As the Specialist goes to press in early December for the first issue of 2017, I am writin...
Greg Herring, Cassandra Glanville
In 1996 the California Law Revision Commission (“LRC”) developed and proposed...
Jeri Hamlin, Rebecca Wightman
[Part 2 of a two-part series] [The Bench] Editor’s Note: Due to its importance to a...
Christine Gille, Debra Frank, Lloyd Kaye
Introduction This log is by litigators and for litigators. There are many case analysis a...
Sharon Bryan
This is not intended as a treatise on cross-examination, but rather a reduction sauce of t...
Seth Kramer
Among family law attorneys, the Association of Certified Family Law Specialist is known by...