Family Law

WA Specific

4.11

Discovery and Evidence in Washington Family Law Cases

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Credit Status Total
Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
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5 hours 55 minutes
Peder Punsalan-Teigen
Alan Funk
Erin Blower
Brent Bohan
Michael Louden
Vanessa Moore
Elizabeth Mount Penner
With Peder T. Punsalan-Teigen from Skellenger Bender1 + 6 others
Recorded November 28, 2023
Product ID 97328

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Overview

Discover Hidden Assets, Collect and Authenticate Social Media and Smartphone Evidence, and Much More

In every divorce or family law case, it's critical to know how to find, secure, and present case-supporting evidence. Whether it be locating hidden assets or deleted social media accounts, your abilities can turn a losing case into a winning one (and vice versa). Join our experienced faculty in this online seminar as they share practical insights and effective tips on how to go through discovery and evidence hurdles with confidence. Get the information that you need - register today!

  • Obtain practical tips for locating hidden or undisclosed assets and income.
  • Understand what to look for with electronically stored information in family law discovery.
  • Get effective strategies and questions for divorce depositions.
  • Learn how to apply the rules of evidence in family law cases
  • Discuss how to conduct effective direct and cross-examinations of expert witnesses.
  • Know how to go through a family law case in an ethically-sound manner.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Practical Tips for Discovery Requests: From Interrogatories to Subpoenas
  2. Discovering Hidden Assets and Income
  3. Smartphone, Social Media, and Other Electronic Evidence
  4. Divorce Depositions: Key Tactics and Questions You Must Know
  5. Parental Alienation and Abuse: Evidence and Witnesses
  6. Direct and Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses
  7. Ethics in Family Law
Product ID 97328

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Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
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  1. Practical Tips for Discovery Requests: From Interrogatories to Subpoenas

    1. Interrogatories
    2. Requests for Production of Documents
    3. Requests for Admissions
    4. Orders for Physical/Mental Examination
    5. Issuing Subpoenas in Divorce Cases
    6. Actions for Non-Compliant Parties
  2. Discovering Hidden Assets and Income

    1. Premarital/Prenuptial Agreement Provisions
    2. Paystubs and Other Employment Records
    3. Tax Returns
    4. Financial Account Statements
    5. Pension/Retirement Accounts
    6. Insurance Policies
    7. Business Records
    8. Overseas/Foreign Assets
  3. Smartphone, Social Media, and Other Electronic Evidence

    1. Social Media Platforms: Procedures and Pointers
    2. Securing Electronically Stored Information (ESI)
    3. Smartphone/Tablet Discovery
    4. Email Discovery
    5. Video-Sharing Apps
    6. Subpoenaing Cell Phone Records, Social Media, etc.
    7. Retrieving Deleted and Lost Data
  4. Divorce Depositions: Key Tactics and Questions You Must Know

    1. Preparing Your Witness
    2. Preparing Documents for Deposition
    3. Financial Questions
    4. Custody Questions
    5. Mental Health Expert Reports and Depositions
    6. Practical Tips for Dealing With Difficult Deponents
  5. Parental Alienation and Abuse: Evidence and Witnesses

  6. Direct and Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses

  7. Ethics in Family Law

    1. Client/Lawyer Relationship
    2. Attorneys' Fees
    3. Communication With Adverse Parties
    4. Malpractice Concerns and Considerations
    5. Duty of Candor

Who Should Attend

This intermediate level online seminar is designed for attorneys. Paralegals may also benefit.

Speakers

Peder T Punsalan-Teigen
Peder T.
Punsalan-Teigen
Skellenger Bender1
Alan S Funk
Alan S.
Funk
Wechsler Becker, LLP
Erin M Blower
Erin M.
Blower
McKinley Irvin PLLC
Brent Bohan
Brent
Bohan
McKinley Irvin PLLC
Michael W Louden
Michael W.
Louden
Wechsler Becker LLP
Vanessa Moore
Vanessa
Moore
Wong Fleming Attorneys at Law
Elizabeth Mount Penner
Elizabeth
Mount Penner
Skellenger Bender
Speaker bio
Peder T Punsalan-Teigen

Peder T. Punsalan-Teigen

Skellenger Bender1
Peder Punsalan-Teigen

is a principal of the firm Skellenger Bender. He focuses his practice on a wide range of family law matters, including dissolutions of marriage, domestic partnerships and committed intimate relationships, complex asset divisions, parentage, parenting and child custody, child support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and LGBTQ+-specific family law issues. Beyond his work with the firm, Mr. Punsalan-Teigen is actively involved and committed to promoting excellence in the legal community and ensuring access to justice for LGBTQ individuals and families, as well as other minority and underrepresented populations throughout Washington. He routinely publishes and presents on topics in family law and issues facing the LGBTQ+ community, and he is an editor for the Washington Family Law Deskbook. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen has also provided expert testimony in immigration and asylum cases on Washington statutory and common law. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Washington State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, Family Law Institute, National LGBT Bar Association, QLaw (the LGBTQ+ Bar Association of Washington), Filipino Lawyers of Washington, and William L. Dwyer American Inn of Court. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen is the former chair for the LGBTQ+ Law Section of the Washington State Bar Association. He currently serves on both QLaw's Issues & Advocacy and Social & Services committees, and he is a co-chair on QLaw's Judicial Evaluations Committee. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen earned his J.D.degree, magna cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law. While at Seattle University, he was a note & comment editor on Seattle University Law Review and served on the boards of moot court, OUTLaws, International Refugee Assistance Project, and Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen took first place in both mock trial and mock appellate competitions, and represented Seattle University at the Texas Young Lawyers Association Regional Mock Trial Competition. Mr. Punsalan-Teigen was inducted into the Order of Barristers.er

Speaker bio
Alan S Funk

Alan S. Funk

Wechsler Becker, LLP
Alan Funk

is a partner with Wechsler Becker, LLP in Seattle, a ten attorney firm exclusively practicing family law. He has been practicing family law since 1992, and has acted as a Title 26 guardian ad litem and a volunteer court appointed special advocate. Mr. Funk's presentations include: "Working with Pro Se Litigants as Opposing Party," at the WSTLA Family Law & Criminal Law CLE (11/30/06); "Evaluating the Evaluator; Preparation for and Deposition of the Parenting Evaluator," at KCBA Family Law Section Hot Topics CLE (10/5/07); "Advanced Family Law Practice for Paralegals;" "Drafting Child Support Orders and Worksheets," (8/14/08); "Financial Settlement Strategies for Your Divorce Clients;" "Getting A Divorce Case Off to the Right Foot," (12/11/08); "Legal Strategies for Coping with Parents Who Alienate," (2010); "Parenting Disputes from A to Z: In the Best Interests of the Child;" "Ethical Considerations," (3/3/2010); "Effective Use of Parenting Evaluations in Divorce," (2011); "Discovery of Electronic Records, How to Discover, Produce and Review Electronic Data;" and, "Tools and Tips for Dealing with New Technologies," (2009). He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Washington and his J.D. degree from Willamette's College of Law. Mr. Funk is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the State Bar of California. His volunteer work includes Eastside Legal Clinic; an arbitrator on King County Mandatory Arbitration Panel; King County Superior Court Settlement Conference master; an instructor for a King County "How to Finish Your Divorce" class; and a member of the King County Bar Association Courts and Judiciary Committee, and the Judicial Evaluations Committee. Mr. Funk is past secretary and then member of the King County Bar Association's Board of Trustees, past secretary of the King County Bar Association Family Law Section, past vice-chair of King County Bar Association Family Law Section, and past chairman of King County Bar Association Family Law Section.

Speaker bio
Erin M Blower

Erin M. Blower

McKinley Irvin PLLC
Erin Blower

is an attorney with McKinley Irvin PLLC, where she focuses her practice on family law litigation. Ms. Blower works on dissolution of marriage and domestic partnership cases, custody cases, and enforcement of dissolution decrees and parenting plans. She is admitted to practice in Washington and Minnesota, and is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the King County Bar Association, Family Law Section. Ms. Blower earned her B.A. degree from the University of Minnesota and her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School.

Speaker bio
Brent Bohan

Brent Bohan

McKinley Irvin PLLC
Brent Bohan

is a partner with McKinley Irvin PLLC where he focuses his practice on adoption, child custody and support, divorce, domestic violence, LGBT law, relocation, and unmarried couples. Mr. Bohan is a member of the Washington Mediation Association, Federal Trial Bar, Snohomish County (Family Law Section) and American (Family Law Section & Litigation Section) bar associations. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Washington and his M.A. degree and J.D. degree from Vermont Law School.

Speaker bio
Michael W Louden

Michael W. Louden

Wechsler Becker LLP
Michael Louden

is an attorney with Wechsler Becker, LLP, and has been practicing law in Seattle since 1995. He focuses primarily on family law matters, but also has handled property and landlord-tenant disputes, personal injury cases, bankruptcy issues, and criminal defense cases. Mr. Louden’s practice currently emphasizes mediation and arbitration in family law disputes. He also serves as a King County family law commissioner pro tem. Mr. Louden has served as a guardian ad litem and court appointed special advocate to represent children's interests in domestic relations matters. He is a past chair of the King County Bar Association's Family Law Section and has a long-term involvement in the King County Bar Association's family law legislative agenda. Mr. Louden has handled a number of family law appeals. For 15 years, he was the editor of the Washington Lawyer's Practice Manual Family Law Section. Mr. Louden was educated at Earlham College and the University of Washington School of Law.

Speaker bio
Vanessa Moore

Vanessa Moore

Wong Fleming Attorneys at Law
Vanessa Moore

is an associate at Wong Fleming Attorneys at Law in Redmond, Washington. Her practice focuses on private client services and complex family law litigation. Ms. Moore advocates for clients dealing with jurisdiction issues, high asset dissolutions, and corporate collections. Her background includes several years of practice with Wong Fleming. Ms. Moore oversees the family law department of the Redmond, Washington Wong Fleming office. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Seattle University and her Juris Doctor from Seattle University School of Law.

Speaker bio
Elizabeth Mount Penner

Elizabeth Mount Penner

Skellenger Bender
Elizabeth Mount Penner

is an associate at the firm Skellenger Bender. She started her career in family law before transitioning to criminal defense, where she spent several years representing clients facing grim and serious charges. This experience honed her ability to get results in court and at the negotiation table. When Ms. Mount Penner later returned “home” to family law practice, she used those same talents and passion to vigorously represent her clients and their families.It is clear how much she loves helping people reclaim their life and their future. At Skellenger Bender, she represents clients in divorce, child custody, parentage, relocation, domestic violence, and other domestic relations matters. Ms. Mount Penner is a member of the King County Bar Association and Washington State Bar Association. She earned her B.A. dgree, magna cum laude, from California State University, Fresno; and her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Seattle University School of Law.

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