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Basic Training: Family Law 2024
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Program Overview
Basic Training: Family Law is a comprehensive program, designed and taught by experts in the field for lawyers and their support staff with limited experience in the practice of family law. It is also beneficial to intermediate family law lawyers who want a thorough review of family law basics and best practices. This “how to” course takes you step-by-step in handling a marriage dissolution case, commencing with jurisdiction, developing a competent case and discovery plan, seeking and opposing pendente lite relief, and continuing through to judgment and post-judgment matters.
You’ll learn the importance of each element of the family law forms – including the Petition and Response that begin the case, the Request for Order that initiates an evidentiary or motion hearing, the all-important Supporting and Responsive Declarations that can make or break your request for, or opposition to, interim and post-judgment orders, and the mandatory Declarations of Disclosure required. Our panel explains the substantive law and strategies to be considered in competently maneuvering through the many forms and procedures. No matter which side you represent, you will learn the basics of family law and hear invaluable practice pointers from the experts.
Presenters
• Hon. Anne Kiley – Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court, Family Law Division
• Stephen D. Hamilton, CFLS – Stephen D. Hamilton Family Law Offices
• Adrian Martinez – Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves and Savitch, LLP
Program Highlights
The Proceedings
• Dissolution
• Legal separation
• Parentage
• Petition to establish custody and support
• DVPA
Jurisdictional Issues
• Personal jurisdiction: when required and when not
• Divisible divorce
• UCCJEA
• UIFSA
The Filings: Mandatory Judicial Council Forms
• Summons and petition
• Response
• Declaration under UCCJEA
• Requests for Orders
• Income and expense declarations
The California Rules of Court –
Title Five, Family Law Rules
• Joinder
• Bifurcation
• Requests for Orders
• Meet and confer requirements
• Evidentiary hearings
• Custody mediation and evaluations
• Minor’s counsel
• Child Testimony
Date of Separation
Premarital Agreements
Property and Debt Characterization and Division
Fiduciary Duties
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Preliminary and Final Declarations of Disclosure
Discovery Plans
Making a Record: Family Code §217
Child Custody and Visitation
• UCCJEA
• Pendente lite requests
• Move-aways
• Post-judgment modifications
Child Support
• Child Support Guidelines
• Calculating guideline support
• Rebutting the guideline
• Post-judgment modifications
Spousal Support
• Pendente lite
• At trial and post-judgment modifications
Attorneys’ Fees and Costs
• Dissolution / legal separation proceedings
• Parentage proceedings
• DVPA proceedings
• 271 Sanctions
Domestic Violence Prevention Act
• Legislative intent
• Discovery limitations
- Qualifying relationships
- Abuse defined
- The TRO
- The DVRO hearing
- Duration
- Mutual Restraining Orders
- Renewal |
Course Materials
The course materials include a copy of the complete set of slides and worksheets used by the panelists, plus other supplemental materials.
Enrollees in the webcast will be able to download course materials before the program and view them online during the program.
12 Hours MCLE/Specialization Credits
Approval of specialization credit in Family Law has been granted by the California Board of Legal Specialization, and approval of MCLE credit for this activity has been granted by The State Bar of California in the amount of 12 hours.
Visit www.CFLRonline.com™ and www.RutterOnline.com™ to earn additional MCLE participatory credit!
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