Samantha Bley DeJean, Robert Olson, Stefani Radist, Jeffrey E. Raskin

Is private judging soon to be a thing of the past in a post Jolie v. Superior Court world? This article will discuss how one private judge’s...

CarolAnn Peterson

Assembly Bill (AB) 611 is pending legislation in California. This legislation attempts to provide extra measures of protecting identity and...

Michele Brown, CFLS

I hope you have had a fabulous 2021 so far and are enjoying the holiday season. Thank you for attending our in-person Holiday Party at the W...

Anthony Boucek

So, you did not get what you expected from the judge on that recent motion? We have all been on both sides of this experience. We have lost...

Jack Young

Credible appraisal reports must be grounded in established professional standards and provide a logical presentation of evidence that suppor...

Jeffrey A. Travis

Most transactions today are conducted digitally. According to the Federal Reserve, in 2018, digital transactions (16.6 billion) outpaced che...

Naghmeh Bashar

Keeping it short and sweet… We have several informative and thought-provoking articles for your reading pleasures. I did not want to lose an...

Seth Goldstein

In this article, in a multi-part series, we discuss several aspects of the errors made by family lawyers in cases of interpersonal violence...

Jessica Dayton

I. Introduction Our traditional notions of how legal system should operate have siloed areas of practice and systems of justice. The crimin...

Michele Brown, CFLS

Welcome back to “normal!" As we have traversed the Pandemic back to being in-person, I cannot wait to see all your smiling faces at our in-p...

Richard Gould-Saltman

First and foremost, I would like to extend my thanks to our Associate Editor, Debra Frank, for not only allowing herself to be semi-conscrip...

Richard Gould-Saltman

In Ficke (In re Marriage of Ficke, 13 DJDAR 7438, 6/12/2013) a trial judge apparently decided that he didn’t “like the cut of the jib” of a...

Christopher Melcher, CFLS

“Only fools assert that they are free of biases.” (Martindale, D. A., “Bias and Prejudice in Custody Evaluations.” The Matrimonial Strategis...

Marshall W. Waller, CFLS

Welcome to the 21st Century, a wonderful time indeed to experience all that technology has to offer in the form of smartphones and the Inter...

CarolAnn Peterson

Following in the footsteps of England and Wales (2015) and Ireland and Scotland (2019), California has now specifically included coercive co...