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...

Lisa McCall

ACFLS has presented Preserving Your Appellate Rights in the Trial Court in two parts. Part 1 appeared in the Summer 2023 issue of the Family...

S. Roger Rombro

On the rainy evening of September 27, 1849, the delegates of California’s first Constitutional Convention voted to give married women rights...

Belinda Hanson, Joyce Chang

I. INTRODUCTION Imagine it is the eleventh hour of the final day of a multiday settlement conference, and after months of research, account...

Sherry Peterson, CFLS

TEAMWORK The Foundation and Engine of ACFLS  Teamwork has been defined as the collaborative effort of a group to achieve a common goal or...

Debra Frank

Welcome to our Winter edition of the ACFLS Family Law Specialist. My thanks to the authors for their contributions. During my six terms as...

Tanya E. Prioste

It’s time to change the default model for creating a premarital agreement. For too long, premarital agreements have been created using an ad...

Ariel Leichter-Maroko

INTRODUCTION In the past decade, the financial landscape has witnessed a transformative evolution with the rise of digital assets. Cryptocu...

Abbas Hadjian

California family law practitioners are behind the rest of the country in dealing with cultural marital agreements. In Alulddin v. Alfartous...

Mark Sullivan

Introduction – “What’s SBP?” The Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) is often the phantom in military divorce negotiations. Providing a death benef...

Greg Ellis

Introduction. Written briefs are a substantial component of advocacy in the trial court and are the core of appellate advocacy. Yet judges...

S. Roger Rombro

The community property laws under the Spanish Mexican system directed that all income acquired during a marriage was deemed to belong to the...

Dawn Gray, Hon. Thomas Trent Lewis Ret.

Introduction On July 20, 2015, the California Supreme Court issued In re Marriage of Davis, 61 Cal. 4th 846 (2015) (Davis). For the purpose...