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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...

Following in the footsteps of England and Wales (2015) and Ireland and Scotland (2019), Ca...

A divorce can have a significant impact on a family’s financial and emotional well-b...

Part One of this article covered estate fundamentals— things that a family law attor...

California’s already-besieged court system ground to a near halt in March as Governo...

First and foremost, I would like to extend my thanks to our Associate Editor, Debra Frank,...

PRETEXTING AND OTHER ELECTRONI...

Marshall W. Waller, CFLS

Welcome to the 21st Century, a wonderful time indeed to experience all that technology has...

BIAS: THE ENEMY OF PERSUASION

Christopher Melcher, CFLS

“Only fools assert that they are free of biases.” (Martindale, D. A., “B...

In Ficke (In re Marriage of Ficke, 13 DJDAR 7438, 6/12/2013) a trial judge apparently deci...

In re the Marriage of Veronica and Curtis Priem (2013) 214 Cal.App.4th 505, 153 Cal.Rptr.3...

I. Introduction Our traditional notions of how legal system should operate have siloed ar...

Welcome back to “normal!" As we have traversed the Pandemic back to being in-person,...

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

Most transactions today are conducted digitally. According to the Federal Reserve, in 2018...

Keeping it short and sweet… We have several informative and thought-provoking artic...

Credible appraisal reports must be grounded in established professional standards and prov...

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