CLE Courses

2021 Speaker Series – Part Four “Getting Your Point Across – Cross Examine This” – Behind the Scenes: “Business Valuations: Without Me, It’s Nothing”

This seminar will be a one-hour seminar covering a behind-the-scenes look at preparation for cross-examination (what really goes into preparing for cross-examination of an expert) and specific steps and recommendations on how to make your case, identify weaknesses and prepare cross-examination to ensure the best results at trial. Learn the important documents to request through discovery, key people to subpoena/depose, how to effectively use an expert and other techniques to ensure you have all the information you need for effective cross-examination.

“Best Practices for Family Law Litigators if an Appeal or Writ May be Ahead”

Where issues are important enough to the litigants to take to court, they may well be important enough for of the parties to seek appellate review. This program will give family law trial counsel many tips about actions in the trial that better position the case in the appellate courts — including tips about the practical problems that arise when the case is being tried before a privately-compensated temporary judge.

Introduction to a Family Law Case – A Virtual Event

There has been much discussion requesting ACFLS broaden its education base, and provide education to encourage and support attorneys entering the area of family law.  We have heard your requests.  This six hour presentation will review a family law case from intake through judgment.   The focus of this program will be practical pointers from both bench and bar.  In other words the things they don’t teach you in the books.  The panelists will discuss each topic from both the attorney’s, as well as a judicial officer’s point of view.  The panelists will debate the issues to show how the various legal issues can be approached depending upon who you are representing.

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2021 Speaker Series – Part Three – Main Event “Sole Proprietorships: Uncle Sam Isn’t the Last Word”

This seminar will instruct participants on effective areas of cross-examination in a dissolution of marriage case involving a sole proprietorship. Learn the important documents to request through discovery, key people to subpoena/depose, different approaches to cross-examination based on business type, and how to approach the case with and without a financial expert. This seminar will cover cross-examination on issues of characterization, reasonable compensation, retained earnings, promissory notes, cash available for support, add-backs/perquisites, date of valuation, and more.

“Set Asides and Other Post Judgment Relief; Pointers and Pitfalls”

This program will discuss pitfalls and pointers on post-judgement relief under the Family Code. This will include a discussion of set asides, delayed discovery, relief under Family Code section 1101(g) and (h), and omitted assets. The focus of the program will be practice pointers and will discuss several strategies regarding set asides of judgments regarding particular assets, such as businesses, pensions, and even survivor benefit plans. The program will also discuss particular circumstances where one should or should not file a set aside motion, along with disclosures that should be made to every client that treads in this difficult and complex area of the law.

Behind the Scenes – “Sole Proprietorships: Uncle Sam Isn’t the Last Word”

This seminar will instruct participants on effective areas of cross-examination in a dissolution of marriage case involving a sole proprietorship. Learn the important documents to request through discovery, key people to subpoena/depose, different approaches to cross-examination based on business type, and how to approach the case with and without a financial expert. This seminar will cover cross-examination on issues of characterization, reasonable compensation, retained earnings, promissory notes, cash available for support, add-backs/perquisites, date of valuation, and more.

“The Art of getting Your Client Paid: Tips and Tricks for Enforcement of Family Law Orders”

You got your client a good money judgment/order.  Now you needed to enforce it! This presentation will provide tips and tricks to enforce family law money orders to collect against the slipperiest of opposing parties and get the proverbial blood out of a turnip.

2021 Speaker Series – Part 2 – Main Event “Income Available for Support: It’s Not What You Think”

This seminar will be a detailed look at cross-examination of an opposing expert on issues found in support hearings and how to approach the case with and without having your own expert. This seminar will touch on the issues of whether a source of funds is income available for support, when such income is available for support, does it matter if it is child support or spousal support, and how to effectively cross-examine an expert to both weaken the opposing party’s case and strengthen your client’s case.