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...
Shanon Quinley
California trial courts are embracing technological advances in order to boost productivit...
Seth Kramer
Family Law has always been a part of the legal profession that demands developing a skill...
Christine Gille
Tech Revolution in Family Law Earlier this year we published our first digital trial tech...
Leslie Ellen Shear Stephen Temko Rick Cohen, CFLS
ACFLS has joined the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law as amici curiae in Bianka M. v....
Lisa McCall
In re Marriage of Minkin (2017) 11 Cal.App.5th 939, decided in April this year1 by the Fou...
Beverly Brautigam
Lately I have had several attorneys inquire as to the proper tax reporting of community-pr...
Heidi Tuffias
I joined the Board of the ACFLS in 2001, and shortly after that I started writing these &l...
Mark E. Sullivan
The first part of this article dealt with deadlines and time problems with submission of t...
Lynette Berg Robe
You may have heard something about the new ACFLS Charitable Foundation, Inc., at the ACFLS...
Esther Rosenfeld Jennifer J. Hagan
Introduction Transparency and full disclosure are at the heart of any equitable marital...
Sherry Peterson, CFLS
Random Acts of Kindness I honestly struggle when I sit down to write these messages...
Debra Frank
Welcome to our fall edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors f...
Hon. Frank L. Birchak
I recently read the ACFLS Family Law Specialist publication for Summer 2023, No. 2. The ar...
Fredrick (Rick) Cohen Leslie Ellen Shear, CFLS
Work on the ACFLS Amicus Committee has its joys (getting opinions published and being cite...
Deborah H. Wald
Custody cases often require courts to make challenging decisions in the best interests of...