Introduction On July 20, 2015, the California Supreme Court issued In re Marriage of Davis, 61 Cal. 4th 846 (2015) (Davis). For the purpose of determining when a couple is “separated” and thus no longer acquiring community property, Davis adopted the reasoning from Norviel1 and construed the phrase “living separate and apart” as requ...
Debra Frank
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Rick Cohen, CFLS Leslie Ellen Shear
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Stephen Temko Dennis Temko Esq.
Improper compliance with the Evidence Code, the Code of Civil Procedure, or the Rules of C...
Jennifer Saunders
We pound the keys, press the buttons, click send, and now we can relax knowing we have tra...
Mark Rosenfeld
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James M. Hallett
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Mark E. Sullivan
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Thomas Pastore
Many family law matters become contentious and emotional. However, California is a communi...
Thirty years ago I became a certified family law specialist—a designation that was t...
Jeremy Salvador
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Dianne Fetzer
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Naghmeh Bashar
Taking the “I” Out and Replacing It With the “We” As I sit to wr...
David Lederman, CFLS
The 2018 ACFLS Holiday Party was another great success. For those of you who missed this e...
Joseph J. Bell
Grant to be presented to Executive Director Toni Novak in San Francisco on December 1, 201...
Dorie Rogers, CFLS
There is no area in family law in which the court has greater discretion than when making...