Jill Barr

We just concluded a very successful Spring Seminar in Rancho Mirage. I am grateful to all of the individuals who assisted in making this pas...

Debra Frank

During the last few months, the debate on Davis has continued. Sen. John M. W. Moorlach, 37th Senate District introduced legislation on Febr...

Jason Schwartz, Drew Hunt

You Need to Know! The practice of family law arguably requires more skill sets of the family law practitioner than any other area of special...

Warren Shiell, Kevin Koloff

This article provides the family law practitioner with a basic overview of how to identify music-related intellectual property and royalty i...

Louise Nixon

What happens when one of the parties in a divorce dies before a pension is divided? Is it possible to divide a pension pre-judgment with a q...

John Hodson

As most readers know, the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists (ACFLS) has been around for more than thirty-five years. The assoc...

Dawn Gray

Editor’s Note:The holdings from various cases are below. Dawn Gray’s extensive summaries of these cases, as well as summaries of other cases...

Judge Isabel Cohen, Judith Forman, William Ryden

Compelling public policies embedded in the Califoia Family Code (“FC”) impact rights and responsibilities of married and unmarried couples a...

Jill Barr

2015 was a successful year for ACFLS. The 23rd Annual Spring Seminar went well despite a surprise power outage. In addition to the success o...

Debra Frank

During the last few months, while getting the material ready for this edition of the Joual of Association of Certified Family Law Specialist...

Kim Cheatum

Lafkas in BriefTwo statutes were enjoying independent, peaceful lives, by legislative design, until the court in Lafkas chose to pit them ag...

Leslie Dawson

One would assume that if a marital settlement agreement describes a payment from one former spouse to another as “alimony” or “spousal suppo...

Dianne Fetzer

The following is a summary of the first year for the 2015–2016 legislative term. These are some of the selected bills on which ACFLS has pro...

Heidi Tuffias

Throughout the life of this column I see how much I, we, have grappled with the questions—what is it that we do? How can we do a good job? H...

Dawn Gray

Editor’s Note:The holdings from various cases are below. Dawn Gray’s extensive summaries of those cases, too lengthy to publish in the Joual...