Family Law

IN Specific

Advanced Custody and Support Issues in Indiana

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5 hours 51 minutes
Andrea Ciobanu
Julie Dixon
Matthew Dinn
DawnMarie White
John Davis
With Andrea L. Ciobanu from Ciobanu Law, P.C. + 4 others
Recorded February 15, 2024
Product ID 97881

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Overview

Parenting Plans, Custody Evaluations, Relocation, Support Modifications, Parental Alienation, and More

You know what the law says - but what factors really matter to the courts' determination of parenting time and custody? How do you strategically proceed if you receive an unfavorable custody evaluation? Our seasoned faculty will walk you through the messier aspects of parenting and support matters to provide you with operative knowledge, tips and tools you can utilize in your practice. Find out how to negotiate and draft creative parenting plans for dynamic situations, explore complex support calculation issues, and much more. Take your practice to the next level and smoothly traverse some of the stickiest child-related issues in family law - register today!

  • Find out what factors judges are looking at in parenting cases.
  • Navigate the ins and outs of negotiating and drafting workable parenting plans.
  • Discover how to update child support when a party's circumstances change.
  • Understand child evaluators' testing tools and find out how to successfully challenge unfavorable reports.
  • Become a power user of the child support worksheet by picking up valuable tips and tricks.
  • Avoid seemingly innocuous parenting plan provisions that lead to conflicts down the road.
  • Gain strategies for proving alienation when you realize it's occurring.
  • Walk through complex UIFSA and UCCJEA hypotheticals so you can navigate these issues on your own.
  • Develop an effective case strategy for fighting against false abuse allegations.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Key Factors Courts Consider for Parenting, Modification, Enforcement, and More
  2. Negotiating and Drafting Parenting Plans (With Samples)
  3. Custody Evaluations: Understanding the Tools and Challenging the Report
  4. UCCJEA and Relocation Issues in Family Law
  5. UIFSA and Complex Child Support Issues
  6. Alienation and Abuse Allegations in Custody Proceedings
  7. Legal Ethics

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  1. Key Factors Courts Consider for Parenting, Modification, Enforcement, and More

    1. Custody/Visitation: Factors That Truly Matter to Courts
    2. When is Modification or Enforcement of Child-Related Decree Provisions Justified?
    3. Parenting Disputes
    4. Q&A Session

  2. Negotiating and Drafting Parenting Plans (With Samples)

    1. Sample Plan: Legal Custody Provisions, Parenting Schedules, and Miscellaneous Clauses
    2. Alternative Dispute Resolution and Other Useful Provisions
    3. Negotiation Tactics and Creative Solutions for High-Conflict Issues
    4. Top Mistakes: Provisions That Lead to Disputes
    5. Use of Parenting Coordinators and Litigating Disputes About Their Recommendations
    6. Modification of Parenting Plans: Standards and Practice Tips
    7. Sample Plans for Disabled/Special Needs Children, Military Families, and Other Dynamic Situations

  3. Custody Evaluations: Understanding the Tools and Challenging the Report

    1. Hiring an Evaluator: Cost/Benefit Analysis
    2. What Goes into a Comprehensive Order
    3. Key Elements and Timeline of an Evaluation
    4. Understanding the Diagnostic Tools/Commonly Used Tests
    5. Assessing if the Report Meets Professional/Statutory Standards (With Checklist)
    6. Challenging the Expert's Report and Asking the Right Questions
    7. Fighting a Contested Custody Case When Your Client Can't Afford an Evaluation

  4. UCCJEA and Relocation Issues in Family Law

    1. UCCJEA - Examination of Complex Hypotheticals
    2. Important Factors, Procedures, and Options in the Relocation Case
    3. Overcoming Key Challenges in an International Relocation
    4. What to do if a Parent Flees the State With the Children

  5. UIFSA and Complex Child Support Issues

    1. Update on Governing Laws, Regulations, and Cases
    2. UIFSA Challenges - Examining Hypotheticals
    3. Hints and Tips for the Child Support Worksheet
    4. Defining Income - Gross vs. Net, Second Jobs, Bonuses, Imputing Income, etc.
    5. Child Support Calculations - Top Mistakes Attorneys Make
    6. Reading Complex Earning Statements (Military, Teachers', etc. - With Examples)
    7. How to Modify Child Support Obligations - Step-by-Step

  6. Alienation and Abuse Allegations in Custody Proceedings

    1. Alienation: What it is vs. What it isn't and How to Detect it
    2. Proving Parental Alienation - Case Strategy
    3. Fighting Against False Abuse Allegations
    4. Social Services Investigations - When They Happen and What the Reports Mean
    5. Examining Experts and Lay Witnesses in Alienation and Abuse Cases

  7. Legal Ethics

    1. Attorney Contact With Children
    2. Special Considerations for Mental Health Professionals and GALs
    3. Best Interests of the Child vs. Parents' Best Interests
    4. Child Testimony: Need for Evidence vs. Damage to Child

Who Should Attend

This advanced level online seminar is designed for attorneys, guardians ad litem, custody evaluators, psychologists, counselors, parenting plan coordinators and paralegals.

Speakers

Andrea L Ciobanu
Andrea L.
Ciobanu
Ciobanu Law, P.C.
Julie C Dixon
Julie C.
Dixon
Dixon & Mosely, P.C.
Matthew P Dinn
Matthew P.
Dinn
Popcheff & Dinn, LLP
DawnMarie White
DawnMarie
White
Emswiller, Williams, Noland & Clarke, LLC
John H Davis
John H.
Davis
Speaker bio
Andrea L Ciobanu

Andrea L. Ciobanu

Ciobanu Law, P.C.
Andrea Ciobanu

is the managing attorney at Ciobanu Law, P.C., in Indianapolis, Indiana. She represents clients throughout Indiana in civil litigation matters, including commercial and business, defamation, family and domestic relations, protective orders, civil rights and ADA compliance, as well as appellate matters. A seasoned litigator, Ms. Ciobanu has argued before the Southern and Northern districts of Indiana Federal Courts, Indiana Court of Appeals, Indiana Supreme Court and Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a trained registered civil, domestic and elder mediator, guardian ad litem, and parenting coordinator. Ms. Ciobanu is also a trained collaborative law professional. She teaches introductory law classes and legal ethics courses for undergraduates at Indiana University, Purdue University Indianapolis. Ms. Ciobanu earned her B.A. and M.P.A. degrees, both summa cum laude, from Indiana University and her J.D. degree from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

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Julie C Dixon

Julie C. Dixon

Dixon & Mosely, P.C.
Julie Dixon

is a shareholder at Dixon & Mosely, P.C. where she practices in the areas of family law, including complex financial components of domestic relations, business matters and estates. Ms. Dixon has co-written, taught and researched several articles on family law and domestic relations matters. She earned her B.S. degree from the Indiana University, Bloomington and her J.D. degree from the Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis. Ms. Dixon is a member of the Indianapolis, Indiana State and Boone County bar associations. She practices in counties throughout the state of Indiana.

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Matthew P Dinn

Matthew P. Dinn

Popcheff & Dinn, LLP
Matthew Dinn

is a partner with the Indianapolis law firm of Popcheff & Dinn, LLP and focuses most of his practice on family law issues. He also owns Brightline Legal Consulting, a practice management and practice development company that helps solo and small firm attorneys become better business owners. Mr. Dinn also assists small business clients with contracts, policies and strategic planning. He is an active member in the Indiana State Bar Association and Association of Family and Conciliatory Courts (AFCC), and a former member of the Second Indiana State Bar Association Leadership Development Academy. Mr. Dinn regularly volunteers with the Indianapolis State Bar Association and sits on the IndyBar Pro Bono Committee, in addition to being a volunteer guardian ad litem for Kids‘ Voice of Indiana. He earned his B.A. degree from DePauw University and his J.D. degree from the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

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DawnMarie White

DawnMarie White

Emswiller, Williams, Noland & Clarke, LLC
DawnMarie White

is an experienced attorney at Emswiller, Williams, Noland & Clarke, LLC, where she focuses her practice on family law, criminal law, juvenile law matters including delinquencies and CHINS or DCS/CPS actions, and appellate work. Ms. White represents clients throughout Indiana in divorce, paternity, child custody (including high conflict issues), parenting time, modifications, relocations, post-decree enforcement or contempt actions, guardianships, adoptions, grandparent visitation, and protective orders with a client-centered approach. In addition to her family law cases, she meticulously handles cases involving DCS/CPS, including CHINS actions, foster parent adoptions, change of placement objections, foster parent license revocation, administrative appeals and expungements. Ms. White is a registered domestic mediator to assist families in determining their own outcomes to their divorce, paternity, child custody, and parenting time disputes. She also serves as a private and volunteer guardian ad litem. Ms. White believes in helping people, and when not doing that through the practice of law she is volunteering in the community. She has volunteered with WFYI's IRIS as a reader for the visually impaired reading program; Girls' Inc. as a mentor; Big Brothers and Big Sisters as a mentor; and Child Advocates as a CASA. She has completed the Bar Leadership Series, and serves the legal community through the Indianapolis Bar Association. She earned her B.A. degree from Purdue University and her J.D. degree from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

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John H Davis

John H. Davis

John Davis

is an attorney in Indiana, where he practices primarily in the areas of family law, bankruptcy and criminal law. Mr. Davis previously taught on topics such as accounting, business mathematics and economics at Alabama A&M University, as well as on civil law, family law and dissolution in their paralegal studies program. Mr. Davis has frequently sat as a Pro Tem Judge in Lake County covering civil and criminal cases, and has filed several Petitions for Writ of Certiorari in the United States Supreme Court. He earned his B.S. degree from Woodbury University, his M.B.A. degree from Azusa Pacific University and his J.D. degree from Western State University. Mr. Davis is a member of the Indiana State and Lake County bar associations.

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