Christine Gille, Debra Frank, Lloyd Kaye
Introduction This log is by litigators and for litigators. Whether a reader has time to examine the entire case analysis, merely reads the...
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By Jeremy J. Salvador
Executive Summary In In re Marriage of Freeman (2025), the Court of Appeal clarified two timing rules that govern Moore/Marsden apportionment calculations: the community’s percentage interest is determined as of the date of separation, whi...
Read full articleChristine Gille, Debra Frank, Lloyd Kaye
Introduction This log is by litigators and for litigators. Whether a reader has time to examine the entire case analysis, merely reads the...
Shanon Quinley
California trial courts are embracing technological advances in order to boost productivity and to improve time management. Electronic filin...
Seth Kramer
Family Law has always been a part of the legal profession that demands developing a skill set somewhat unique from other practices. Unlike...
Christine Gille
Tech Revolution in Family Law Earlier this year we published our first digital trial technology article, “Ten Commandments for Using Techno...
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. Superior Court (S233757) in the California Supreme...
Lisa McCall
In re Marriage of Minkin (2017) 11 Cal.App.5th 939, decided in April this year1 by the Fourth District, Division Three Court of Appeal, is a...
Beverly Brautigam
Lately I have had several attorneys inquire as to the proper tax reporting of community-property options when a joint return is not filed. B...
Heidi Tuffias
I joined the Board of the ACFLS in 2001, and shortly after that I started writing these “Human Side of Family Law Practice” articles. At tha...
Mark E. Sullivan
The first part of this article dealt with deadlines and time problems with submission of the military pension division order and the two dis...
Lynette Berg Robe
You may have heard something about the new ACFLS Charitable Foundation, Inc., at the ACFLS Holiday Party in San Francisco or at the ACFLS Sp...
Esther Rosenfeld, Jennifer J. Hagan
Introduction Transparency and full disclosure are at the heart of any equitable marital dissolution. These principles were recognized by t...
Sherry Peterson, CFLS
Random Acts of Kindness I honestly struggle when I sit down to write these messages. What do members want to hear? What particular legal t...
Debra Frank
Welcome to our fall edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors for their contributions. ACFLS continuously works...
Hon. Frank L. Birchak
I recently read the ACFLS Family Law Specialist publication for Summer 2023, No. 2. The article on page 16, “Criminal Protective Orders in F...
Fredrick (Rick) Cohen, Leslie Ellen Shear, CFLS
Work on the ACFLS Amicus Committee has its joys (getting opinions published and being cited for amicus briefs) and it has its disappointment...