The 2024 ACFLS Holiday Party was another great success and 102 family law specialists, judicial offi cers, and their respective families gathered at the Sir Frances Drake Hotel in San Francisco to celebrate each other, the holiday season, our award recipients and to just have fun. For those of you who missed it this year, be on the lookout for next year&rsqu...
Debra Frank
I hope you had an enjoyable summer. Your ACFLS Journal Editorial Board has been hard at wo...
Lynette Berg Robe
Summer Activities Even in the doldrums of the summer heat, our ACFLS committees carry on...
Robert L. Lafer
Since I started my legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in the early 1990s, I’...
Judge Marjorie A. Slabach, Ret.
I remember the color of the book cover – it was bright yellow with stark lettering:...
Lawrence E. Leone
“[M]arital dissolution trials proceed under the same general rules of procedure that...
Christine Gille
ACFLS is already planning the 2015 edition of its highly touted annual Spring Seminar in R...
Dawn Gray, CFLS
In re Marriage of Haugh (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th 963, 170 Cal.Rptr.3d 683 Holding: In this...
Heidi Tuffias
This cannot possibly be worth it. I am leaving the office for two weeks and have spent the...
Lyn R. Greenberg, Mary Catherine Bohen
Family law practitioners need to find effective strategies to assist our clients in dealin...
Richard Gould-Saltman
We launch a new year – and ACFLS, and the Specialist, continue to evolve, and grow....
Lynette Berg Robe
Following the path blazed by our intrepid Immediate Past President Diane Wasznicky is inde...
Greg Ellis
It’s not uncommon for me to receive a call from trial counsel at the end of the day...
Vivian L. Holley, Rebecca Lovell
On December 7, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to hear two cases, one...
Robert Marmor, Joel R. (Jake) Rubin
Additions to the Rules of Court that took effect on January 1, 2013 governing non-domestic...
Laura Dewey
The ACFLS Listserv has a new address. That’s right. Our former webserver rather sudd...