CA Specific

Family Law

4.53

Advanced Custody and Support Issues in California

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
California CLE Approved 6 Total
OnDemand
5 hours 55 minutes
Jerry Casheros
Peter Walzer
Danielle Sze
Belinda Handy
With Jerry Casheros from McCormick Barstow LLP + 3 others
Recorded July 30, 2024
Product ID 98578

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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. Get your most burning questions answered by a judge, 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 really 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.
  • Explore how recent developments regarding the rights of same sex and unmarried couples impact your practice.
  • 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. A Judge's View: Parenting Factors, 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. Recent Developments on the Rights of Same Sex and Unmarried Couples: Practical Implications
  8. Legal Ethics

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Product ID 98578

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California CLE Approved 6 Total
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  1. A Judge's View: Parenting Factors, 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 That Judges do Not Want to See
    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. Recent Developments on the Rights of Same Sex and Unmarried Couples: Practical Implications

  8. 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
  • Paralegals

Speakers

Jerry Casheros
Jerry
Casheros
McCormick Barstow LLP
Peter M Walzer
Peter M.
Walzer
Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP
Danielle Sze
Danielle
Sze
Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP
Belinda A Handy
Belinda A.
Handy
Riverside County Superior Court of California
Speaker bio
Jerry Casheros

Jerry Casheros

McCormick Barstow LLP
Jerry Casheros

is a partner in the law firm of McCormick Barstow LLP in the firm's litigation practice group. He focuses his practice on representing clients in family law and professional liability defense matters. Mr. Casheros is certified by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as a specialist in family law. He has successfully represented clients in complex, high net worth divorce and contentious custody litigation cases. Mr. Casheros earned his B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his J.D. degree from the University of California - Davis School of Law.

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Peter M Walzer

Peter M. Walzer

Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP
Peter Walzer

is the founding partner of the southern California law firm Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP, focused exclusively on family law. He is a past president of the Southern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and is former chair of the executive committee of the State Bar of California Family Law Section. Mr. Walzer has been a certified family law specialist for 20 years and is a former president of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists. He is on the Legal Education Committee and the Publications Board of the American Bar Association Family Law Section. Mr. Walzer is also on the executive committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association Family Law Section. He is a member of the Elkins Family Law Task Force, a new statewide panel whose charge is to propose measures to improve efficiency and fairness in family law proceedings and ensure access to justice for family law litigants. Mr. Walzer was named Person of the Year in 2009 by the Southern California Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

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Danielle Sze

Danielle Sze

Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP
Danielle Sze

joined Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP after being admitted to the State Bar of California. She focuses her practice on all aspects of family law, including dissolution of marriage, domestic violence matters, custody and visitation disputes, jurisdictional issues, international child custody, premarital agreements, and postnuptial agreements. Ms. Sze speaks Mandarin Chinese in addition to English, and works to help clients overcome any language barriers. Prior to her admission to the bar, she gained knowledge and experience in family law. Ms. Sze attended the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law. During law school, she volunteered for the Immigration Clinic (VAWA & U-Visa Project) of UCLA's El Centro Legal Clinic. Ms. Sze interviewed victims of domestic violence or felonious assault to write declarations of their experiences for their immigration applications. She also has knowledge and experience of family law at the appellate level. Ms. Sze externed in law school for Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye (ret.) of the California Supreme Court. She later clerked for Associate Justice Melissa A. Long of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. While awaiting bar exam results, Ms. Sze clerked for Walzer Melcher & Yoda LLP.

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Belinda A Handy

Belinda A. Handy

Riverside County Superior Court of California
Belinda Handy

is a Superior Court Commissioner in the Riverside County Superior Court of California.

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