May 21st 2025
The Declarations of Disclosure are not only required under the code, doing them correctly helps your client meet their fiduciary duty to the other party and frames your issues for discovery and settlement. Learn how to strategize your case clearly from the very beginning and also learn why you should do your final declarations of disclosure.Present
May 7th 2025
Certified family law and appellate specialist Lisa R. McCall will provide tips for family law litigators on how to preserve the record for appeal, both during trial and post-ruling. Topics will cover timely use of proper objections, offers of proof, motions in limine, the statement of decision process, avoiding the doctrine of implied findings, pos
Apr 21st 2025
Part One: Pendente lite support – not just XSpouse Presenters: Hon. Michele Bell, Robert Benavente
This year's Orange County 2025 Four Part Speaker Series will focus on Spousal support from inception to judgment and beyond to post judgment. The series will provide information about what factors could and should be cons
Mar 28th 2025
2025 Spring Seminar Includes:
Evidence in Family Law: Knock Knock—Who's There? Just the Evidence, Trying to Get In
Delve into advanced evidentiary challenges with Hon. Hank M. Goldberg (Ret.), Hon. Jackson Lucky (Ret.), and Jillian Duggan-Herd, CFLS as they guide you through strategies for admitting and excluding evide
Feb 20th 2025
Don’t Get SLAPPed Around in Family Court! How to Recognize and Handle SLAPP Issues in Family-Law Cases
Nov 18th 2024
Part Four - More children are diagnosed with “special needs”, “gender identity” issues, or have parents who may be similarly diagnosed (or undiagnosed). This program will provide the latest understanding of diagnoses and how they affect individuals to help you navigate the importance of designating legal and physical custody
Nov 14th 2024
"A Family Law Litigator’s Guide to Financial Data"
Learn what information lies beneath the financial statements and how to subpoena the data you really need. Learn what data may be available by carefully examining financial records and tax returns. Take a deeper dive into investment statements and what information may be hiding in plain sigh
Sep 25th 2024
Tax Effecting Property Settlements in Divorce Cases: A Round Table Discussion
Presented by: Victoria Linder, Rick Cohen, and Brian Boone
Sep 18th 2024
To have an understanding of cross-over issues between Immigration and Family law. In this presentation attorney Faith Nouri provides an overview of:
Immigration terminologies to be aware of when representing an undocumented or non-citizen individual
How to avoid placing your client is removal proceedings (avoid malpractice)
When to
Sep 16th 2024
Part Three- Now that “reunification counseling” is an impermissible order, increase your understanding of how to draft orders, educate yourself about refuse-resist dynamics and the impediments to parenting time. What to do if you have the aligned parent or disfavored parent.
Presenters: Robert Kaufman, Ph.D, Andrea Palash, CFLS, and Co
Aug 19th 2024
OC Speaker Series 2024 - Part One
"Venue, Jurisdictional, and Evidentiary Issues in Child Centered Custody Hearings"
Increase your understanding of who, what, when, where and how to present those complex custody cases with issues of venue and jurisdiction. Then learn everything you had not known about presenting evidence and making objections in
Aug 14th 2024
The Intersection of Taxation and CA Family Law Pt.2
This presentation will pick up where ‘The Intersection of Taxation and California Family Law Part I” left off. This presentation will focus on the considerations to aware of when dealing with complex assets in dissolution proceedings in California. Time will be allocated to qu
Jun 27th 2024
This presentation aims to delve into the intricate relationship between federal and state taxation and California family law, providing insight how tax considerations can significantly impact the litigants in dissolution proceedings. As certified family law specialists, attendees are well aware of the complexities involved in family law cases. This
Jun 17th 2024
Part Two- Learn the current social research in substance use disorders, how to create effective parenting orders, understand how privilege affects the ability to obtain records, and court’s authority in making orders.
Presenters: Hon. Mary Varipapa Kreber and Leslie M. Drozd, Ph.D
Jun 12th 2024
Child Support: Entering a New Era
2024 Heralds Major Changes to the California Landscape
Approved by Governor Gavin Newsom on Sept. 22, 2023, Senate Bill 343 drastically changes nearly every key facet of California child support law, refocusing the lens from forcing so-called "deadbeat" parents to pay their child support to incre