Upcoming Events

No.CA May Dinner,6PM, May 8th, "Family Law Trial Evidence". Speaker: Ron Granberg Piatti's Ristorante, Mill Valley Details and registration...
Sacramento May Luncheon, May 27th, 12noon, Zinfandel Grille, Sacramento. "How a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst ("CDFA") can help your practice." Speaker Seth Kaplan, CFP, CDFA Details and registration...
Order 3-hour DVD/CD Feldman seminar package online. Details and registration...

Welcome to The Association of Certified Family Law Specialists

Sharon Bryan
2008 ACFLS President Sharon Bryan, with Justice King at the 2007 ACFLS Spring Seminar

Welcome, from the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists in California, an independent association of California divorce and family law attorneys.

To locate an ACFLS member, select Directory Search.

 

Latest News: 

ACFLS Best Selling On-Demand Lecture Free for a Limited Time

To promote our new ACFLS.org On-Demand Lecture series, the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists is giving away our best selling On-Demand Lecture starting May 3d through May 9th.

It's free Family Law CLE by a first rate presenter - on-demand, no waiting!

You'll get the full lecture streamed right to your computer, with video and high resolution slides. Play or pause the video at anytime. Click through the slides at your own pace, or keep them on automatic. You even get handouts. And it is all FREE, no obligation of any sort.

What's the catch? You have one week to watch the free video On-Demand Lecture. Purchased On-Demand video lectures may be viewed for three months. Downloadable "CLE To Go" audio mp3s are also available for purchase.

Free 1 Hour CLE Video Lecture With Graphics:

The Effect of Refinancing Property on Characterization and Reimbursement Rights

Presented by Ronald S. Granberg, CFLS*, AAML, IAML  

"Walrath tracing is vital in today’s falling real estate market. You'll learn to apply Walrrath's principles from an expert who's also an expert teacher. "

To get your free lecture, visit ACFLS.org between May 3d through May 9th:

  1. Click on “Lecture Series”  to see the full catalog.
  2. Click on the online seminar program: The Effect of Refinancing Property on Characterization and Reimbursement Rights.
  3. Watch the program within the next seven days.

Feldman Seminar DVDs now on sale!

Get all three hours of this ground-breaking program, A Systematic Method of Enforcing Fiduciary Duties: Analysis and Discussion of Marriage of Feldman, including printed materials, for only $175 (including tax and two-day priority shipping).  Just print out this order form and fax or mail your order today.

You can also order this thee-hour program via 123Signup; we have entered the item as an "event" (arbitrarily dated 3/15/09) to facilitate ordering for our members and others.  Other programs that are accessible through our Online Lecture Series are also available as DVDs that can be purchased by downloading and faxing an order form to Lynn, our executive director.

Online Library Expanded

We have recently added two programs to our online library of one-hour seminars:

Everything Family Law Practitioners Should Know About Revised Family Code §2337 (Bifurcations), presented by R. Ann Fallon and James M. Craword, Jr. on January 22, 2008

Issues Related to the Use of Psychological Testing in Evidence Code §730 Child Custody Evaluations, presented by Sidney K. Nelson, Ph.D.

These programs can be viewed live on your computer or downloaded in audio form to transfer to your iPod or MP3 player.  Just click on the "Lecture Series" link on the left of this page.

2009 Spring Seminar

This year's  Spring Seminar and Family Law Council of Community Property States Symposium in Palm Springs are a huge success!  Mark your calendar for the weekend of March 20, 2009, to be sure of your availability for next year's program, which will again be held in Palm Springs.

Los Angeles Court Child Custody Brochures

Courtesy of the Hon. Robert Alan Schnider, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge, we have some excellent child custody brochures on our website. The brochures are in Adobe pdf format and can be printed two-sided to create trifold pamphlets. Click to access the brochures.

For information about custody, support and other legal issues, or about mediation, collaborative law and other legal alternatives, select For the Public.

To learn more about ACFLS or the certified legal specialty of Family Law, select For Attorneys.

To join ACFLS as a new member Click Here.

To renew my membership in ACFLS Click Here.

 

* Certified Specialist in Family Law, State Bar of California, Board of Legal Specialization