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Overview
Successfully Resolve Your Clients' Family Law Issues
When families run into difficulties, they are dealing with highly emotional situations that may cloud their judgment and prevent them from making rational long-term decisions. As a family law attorney, it's your job to help clients through family law issues with knowledge, insight, and compassion. Developing these skills and sensitivity can take years to perfect, but you can get the essential knowledge and techniques you need in just one day. Join us as we explore legal updates, procedural tips, and problem-solving strategies critical to family law success. Register today!
- Simplify the process and avoid missing steps with our sample forms and checklists.
- Achieve the best custody arrangement for children and parents.
- Get the best financial settlement for your client: understand how to value and divide.
- Avoid novice mistakes: know relevant court procedures.
- Advise clients of their options by understanding the different ways to dissolve a marriage.
- Protect the rights of non-traditional relationships: grandparents, unmarried couples, and other parties.
- Prepare clients for immediate and future financial ramifications: retirement funds, taxes, insurance, child support, and bankruptcy.
- Apply recent legislative updates and laws to your cases.
Abbreviated Agenda
- Legal Update - A Year in Review
- Marriage Dissolution - Process and Procedure
- Discovery in Divorce
- Child Custody and Visitation Rights
- Common and Not So Common Family Law Issues and Answers
- Drafting Enforceable Terms in Consent Orders and Agreements
- Ethics
- Finance 101 for Family Law Practitioners
Credit Details
Credits Available
| Credit | Status | Total | Until |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois CLE |
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6 Total | 06-24-2027 |
| Missouri CLE |
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6 Total | 06-25-2027 |
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Agenda
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Legal Update - A Year in Review
- Procedural Rules for Family Law Cases
- Case Law Update: Family Law
- Application of Recent Cases and Amended Statutes to Your Cases
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Marriage Dissolution - Process and Procedure
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Annulment
- Legal Separation
- Divorce
- Checklist of Necessary Documents
- Typical Case Timeline and Basic Steps to Follow
- Sample Pleadings and Motions: What to Use and When
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Discovery in Divorce
- Social Media Tips and Tricks
- Discovery of Electronic Communications
- Locating Hidden Assets
- Model Letters and Motions (with Sample Forms)
- Discovery Abuses and Remedies
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Child Custody and Visitation Rights
- Petition for Visitation
- Petition for Custody
- Motion for a Change of Custody or Visitation
- Questions of Paternity
- Termination of Parental Rights
- The Rights of Grandparents and Other Relatives
- UCCJEA: Uniform Child Custody and Enforcement Act
- Checklist of Necessary Documents and Sample Forms
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Common and Not So Common Family Law Issues and Answers
- The Emotional Side of Family Law - Strategies for Working With Families and Children
- Domestic Violence and How to Handle it When it's Part of Your Case
- Rights of Unmarried Parties - Cohabitation Agreements
- Representing Gay and Lesbian Parents
- Immigration Issues in Divorce
- Juvenile Court
- Collaborative Law
- Emancipation of Minors
- Adoptions
- Relocation
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Drafting Enforceable Terms in Consent Orders and Agreements
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Ethics
- Client/Lawyer Relationship
- Attendance at Client Conferences by Friends or Family of Client
- Attorneys' Fees
- Communication With Adverse Party
- Malpractice Concerns
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Finance 101 for Family Law Practitioners
- Valuation and Division of Assets (Real Estate, Insurance, Stock Options, Retirement Plans)
- Tax Ramifications of Divorce
- Petition for Child Support
- Child Support Enforcement Options
- Drafting Clear QDROs - Do's and Don'ts
- Equitable Distribution when Debts Equal or Exceed Assets
- Bankruptcy
- Checklist of Necessary Documents and Sample Forms
Who Should Attend
This basic-to-intermediate level online seminar will provide topical insights, sample forms, and important legal updates. This is a must attend for professionals who are new to the field or who need a timely refresher, including:
- Attorneys
- Paralegals
Speakers
Speaker bio
Richard J. Eisen
is a partner at the St. Louis law firm of Growe Eisen Karlen Eilerts, LLC. He concentrates his practice in the area of family/domestic law, including dissolution of marriage, legal separation, paternity, maintenance, child support, child custody, modification matters, enforcement, and pre/post-nuptial agreements. Mr. Eisen has tried and settled numerous complex family law cases. He frequently lectures and publishes articles in the area of family law. Mr. Eisen is a certified divorce mediator and has been appointed by the court as a guardian ad litem for children in custody disputes. Mr. Eisen is a member of The Missouri Bar (past-chair, Legislative Subcommittee of the Family Law Section), the St. Louis County Bar Association (past-president and Executive Board member), the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis. He earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Washington University and his J.D. degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law. He has been named as a Super Lawyer for more than ten years and listed in Best Lawyers in America.
Speaker bio
Aleksandra Hudson
is an attorney at Growe Eisen Karlen Eilerts LLC. Her practice concentrates in the area of family/domestic law, including but not limited to dissolution of marriage, paternity, modification matters, guardianships and adoptions. Prior to joining Growe Eisen Karlen Eilerts, Ms. Hudson practiced law and estate planning with another family law firm, and was appointed and served as guardian ad litem in domestic cases. She earned B.A. degree at Truman State University and her J.D. degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Law.
Speaker bio
Elaine A. Pudlowski
is a partner at Frankel, Rubin, Klein, Payne & Pudlowski, P.C., joining the office in 1997. She practices extensively in the field of domestic relations, where she represents both men and women in matters pertaining to divorce, paternity, child custody, child support and spousal support. Ms. Pudlowski also works in the juvenile court handling adoptions, and in the probate court assisting families with legal guardianships and estates. In addition to her work litigating for adults, she works as a court-appointed guardian ad litem representing minor children in every courtroom in both the St. Louis City and St. Louis County Circuit courts. Ms. Pudlowski has been representing children for over twenty years and it is an ever-growing area of her practice. She also has experience working with injury victims in civil lawsuits as well as handling a variety of civil and traffic matters. Ms. Pudlowski has tried hundreds of cases throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan area and surrounding counties. She is certified as a court-appointed guardian ad litem, family law mediator and parent coordinator. Ms. Pudlowski is a frequent author and lecturer throughout Missouri on all facets of family law. In 2025 she was named Family Law Attorney and Family Law Mediator of the year by Best Lawyers, and has been honored by Super Lawyers since 2020 and Best Lawyers in Family Law since 2019. In 2019, Ms. Pudlowski was honored for her hard work and dedication by receiving a Women’s Justice Award as a general practitioner. She attended Washington University in St. Louis, where she earned Bachelor of Arts and J.D. degrees. She is a member of The Missouri Bar, Missouri Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (MO-AFCC) and National Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC). Ms. Pudlowski serves as vice president for the Housing Board of the Washington University Alpha Phi Sorority. She, her husband Jim and their four sons live in the Compton Heights neighborhood of the city of St. Louis, and is an active member of St. Margaret of Scotland Parish.
Speaker bio
Mary E. Niemira
has practiced family law for over 25 years. She focuses her practice in divorce, complex asset and custody cases, modifications and enforcement of existing judgments, orders of protection and related appellate practice. Ms. Niemira is of counsel at Carmody MacDonald and was a partner at her previous firm, where she had practiced since 1993. She has been named on "The Best Lawyers in America" list for family law since 2018. Ms. Niemira has co-authored CLE materials for state and local CLE programming over the years, as well as the article "Domestic Tort Claims in the Context of Divorce" published in ABA Family Advocate in Fall 2016. She earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1992. During law school, Ms. Niemira was inducted into the Order of the Coif national academic honor society, and she was awarded American Jurisprudence honors for achieving the highest grade in three law school courses. After graduation, she served the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District as a clerk to the Honorable Stanley Grimm.
Speaker bio
Kirk C. Stange
is a founding partner of Stange Law Firm, PC, a multi-state family law firm with offices in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Texas and Kentucky. Through his dedication to clients and their family law cases, he has been recognized for numerous awards including Super Lawyers, Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers Honoree for Family Law, 2015 to present (The final published Super Lawyers list represents no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state); and Missouri Lawyers Media, The POWER List Top 30 for Family Law, since 2020. Mr. Stange is the author of a chapter in a book through Thomson Reuters (Aspatore Publishing) titled, Strategies for Military Family Law: Leading Lawyers on Navigating Family Law in the Armed Forces (Inside the Minds). He released a full-length book through Thomson Reuters (Aspatore Publishing) titled, Prenuptial Agreements Line by Line. Mr. Stange authored another chapter in a book through Thomson Reuters (Aspatore Published) titled, Strategies for Illinois Family Law: Leading Lawyers on Leveraging Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiating Alimony and Child Support, and Managing Client Expectations (Inside the Minds). He is licensed in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas; and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. Mr. Stange earned his J.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Speaker bio
Joel Uffman
is a team leader attorney with Stange Law Firm in Clayton, Missouri. His practice areas include family law, divorce, child custody, child support, paternity, modification, adoption, guardianship, prenuptial ad postnuptial agreements and spousal support. Mr. Uffman attended St. Louis University School of Law, where he earned his J.D. degree and was a Dean’s Scholarship recipient. Before earning his law degree, he attended Missouri Baptist University where he obtained his Bachelor of Applied Science degree. Mr. Uffman is currently licensed and ready to assist clients in the state of Missouri.
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