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...

Deborah H. Wald

Custody cases often require courts to make challenging decisions in the best interests of children. These decisions include what custody arr...

Judge Marjorie A. Slabach, Ret.

Those of you who sat in thrall to the excellent panel presentation in the Palm Springs 2023 Spring Seminar on Difficult Custody Issues in Hi...

Andy Cook

An “Income and Expense Declaration” (IED) is a deceptively simple family law form that is four pages long and was desi...