Dianne Fetzer

D ue to the major social and political changes in our country today, together with the problems of the pandemic...

Naghmeh Bashar

Change is understandably needed. No need to resist. The Fall season is upon us and unfortunately COVID-19 continues to be a source of angst...

David Lederman, CFLS

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed in bold the systemic failure of the court system to respond to crisis. Courts shut down and each of the 58 co...

Belinda Hanson, Tim Keating

I.       Introduction The financial world has gotten very complicated… This article addresses the nature and scope of the short and long-te...

Heidi Tuffias

Since it is the beginning of a brand new year, at least as I write this, I think it is time to celebrate what is good about us family lawyer...

Vivian L. Holley, Rebecca Lovell

On December 7, 2012, the Supreme Court of the United States decided to hear two cases, one challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act (...

Greg Ellis

It’s not uncommon for me to receive a call from trial counsel at the end of the day asking the following: “The court just delivered a terrib...

Lynette Berg Robe

Following the path blazed by our intrepid Immediate Past President Diane Wasznicky is indeed a formidable task. I will need more than a comp...

Lyn R. Greenberg, Mary Catherine Bohen

Family law practitioners need to find effective strategies to assist our clients in dealing with complex custody issues – issues which are v...

Richard Gould-Saltman

We launch a new year – and ACFLS, and the Specialist, continue to evolve, and grow. Lynette Robe has taken the President’s chair on the Boar...

Heidi Tuffias

This cannot possibly be worth it. I am leaving the office for two weeks and have spent the last month preparing night and day for my departu...

Dawn Gray, CFLS

In re Marriage of Haugh (2014) 225 Cal.App.4th 963, 170 Cal.Rptr.3d 683 Holding: In this case, in an appeal brought by the San Diego Depart...

Christine Gille

ACFLS is already planning the 2015 edition of its highly touted annual Spring Seminar in Rancho Mirage, California, to be held March 20–22,...

Lawrence E. Leone

“[M]arital dissolution trials proceed under the same general rules of procedure that govern other civil trials. Written testimony in the for...

Michele Brown, CFLS

On February 7, 2014, the listservs in the family law community were ablaze with comments about the chaos the Marriage of Boblitt (2014) 223...