Family Law

NC Specific

4.59

Advanced Family Law in North Carolina

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
North Carolina CLE Approved 6.5 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 6.67 Total
North Carolina Continuing Paralegal Education Approved 6.5 Total
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6 hours 29 minutes
Elysia Prendergast-Jones
Gene Brentley Tanner
Jason Walls
Catherine Bailey
Jason Hicks
Janet Gemmell
With Elysia Prendergast-Jones from Legal Aid of North Carolina + 5 others
Recorded January 27, 2025
Product ID 99620

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Overview

Skillfully Handle the Most Challenging Family Law Cases

Family law is growing increasingly more complex. The potential complications of high-wealth or high-conflict divorce can intimidate some attorneys into shying away from such cases. Do you have the skills to step up to the plate? We've compiled the most confounding and involved issues you're likely to encounter in your practice and put our attorney faculty to the task of demonstrating how to successfully tackle them. Gain from their collective experience - register today!

  • Explore the most difficult areas of family law practice and get solutions from seasoned attorney faculty.
  • Protect the rights of cohabitating couples and clarify the boundaries of such protection in the eyes of the law.
  • Protect the victim: stop effects of domestic violence from upsetting the balance of power in divorce proceedings.
  • Effectively dispute false allegations of abuse to help your client fight for custody.
  • Obtain the best settlement for your client by conquering the division of complex assets.
  • Get new tactics for enforcement, modification, and termination of child support and spousal maintenance.
  • Understand the unique nuances that arise when helping military clients through a divorce.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Ethics
  2. Navigating Complex Asset Cases
  3. Effectively Arguing Contempt Issues
  4. Advanced Child and Spousal Support Issues
  5. Non-Traditional Family Structures and Paternity Disputes
  6. Death and Divorce - Estate Planning Considerations
  7. Special Issues in Military Divorce
  8. Violence in the Home

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Product ID 99620

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
North Carolina CLE Approved 6.5 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 6.67 Total
North Carolina Continuing Paralegal Education Approved 6.5 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Ethics

    1. Client/Lawyer Relationship
    2. Researching and Preventing Conflicts of Interest
    3. Communication with Adverse Party
    4. When Your Client is Dishonest or Abusive
    5. Attorneys' Fees
    6. Handling an Ethics Complaint/Grievance

  2. Navigating Complex Asset Cases

    1. Commingled Separate and Community Assets
    2. Vacation Homes or Investment Real Estate Interests
    3. Family Business Assets
    4. Interests in Closely Held Corporations
    5. Stock Option Compensation
    6. Complex Retirement Plans
    7. Financial Misconduct
    8. Spotting Hidden Assets
    9. Using Forensic Accountants and Business Valuation Experts
    10. Enforceability of Prenuptial Agreements

  3. Effectively Arguing Contempt Issues

  4. Advanced Child and Spousal Support Issues

    1. Arguing Spousal Maintenance: What Works and What Doesn't
    2. Voluntary Impoverishment
    3. Enforcement Options
    4. Support Modification Procedures and Tactics
    5. Support Termination: When and How
    6. Case Law Update

  5. Non-Traditional Family Structures and Paternity Disputes

    1. Cohabitating Couples/Domestic Partnerships
    2. Grandparent Rights
    3. Guardianships
    4. Emancipation of Minors
    5. Current Paternity Case Law
    6. Paternity Fraud
    7. Paternal Rights
    8. Update on Paternity Affidavits

  6. Death and Divorce - Estate Planning Considerations

    1. Default Inheritance Laws
    2. Medical Decisions
    3. Changing Retirement Plan and Life Insurance Beneficiary Designations
    4. Updating Estate Planning Documents
    5. Planning for Disabled Dependents

  7. Special Issues in Military Divorce

    1. Statutory Changes and Current Case Law
    2. Rules of Practice and Procedure for Family Court
    3. Parenting Issues
    4. Child Support
    5. Military Pension, Retirement and Benefits
    6. Survivor Benefit Plan for Retired Military Personnel
    7. Military Reservists' Retirement Benefits
    8. Survivorship and Military Disability Benefits
    9. Continued Health Care
    10. Contempt

  8. Violence in the Home

    1. Restraining Order vs. Protective Order
    2. Disputing False Allegations
    3. Adult Protective Services
    4. Child Protective Services
    5. Child Abduction
    6. TROs Post-Dissolution

Who Should Attend

This advanced level program will benefit:

  • Attorneys
  • Paralegals
  • Guardians Ad Litem and Other Child Representatives
  • Social Workers
  • Counselors

Speakers

Elysia Prendergast-Jones
Elysia
Prendergast-Jones
Legal Aid of North Carolina
Gene Brentley Tanner
Gene Brentley
Tanner
Parker Bryan Britt Tanner & Jenkins, PLLC
Jason Walls
Jason
Walls
The Walls Law Group
Catherine R Bailey
Catherine R.
Bailey
Fresh Start Family Law
Jason F Hicks
Jason F.
Hicks
Guilford County Attorney's Office
Janet L Gemmell
Janet L.
Gemmell
Cape Fear Family Law
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Elysia Prendergast-Jones

Elysia Prendergast-Jones

Legal Aid of North Carolina
Elysia Prendergast-Jones

is managing attorney with Legal Aid of North Carolina. She is a board-certified specialist in family law. She supervises other in-house attorneys on family and domestic violence matters, advising on legal precedents, legal instruments, and the correct application of laws and statutes in district, superior and appellate courts. Ms. Prendergast-Jones also speaks at numerous CLE seminars and trainings. She earned her B.A. degree from Coker College, her M.A. and M.B.A. degrees from Webster University and her J.D. degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law.

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Gene Brentley Tanner

Gene Brentley Tanner

Parker Bryan Britt Tanner & Jenkins, PLLC
Gene Brentley Tanner

is a partner with Parker Bryan Britt Tanner & Jenkins, PLLC. He was certified by the North Carolina State Bar as a board-certified specialist in the area of family law in 2012. Mr. Tanner focuses his practice on family law matters including separation, divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, military pension division orders, court orders acceptable for processing, issues related to survivor benefit plans, property distribution, high-asset divorces, divorces involving complex business valuations, professional practice divorces, domestic violence, premarital agreements, separation and property settlement agreements, and qualified domestic relations orders. He is known both statewide and nationally as an expert in family law matters related to military divorce issues, military pension division orders, federal pension divisions, court orders acceptable for processing, and former spouse survivor benefit rights. Mr. Tanner earned his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his J.D. degree from the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University. He is a member of the Wake County Bar Association, Tenth Judicial District Bar's Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association and Family Law Section of the American Bar Association.

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Jason Walls

Jason Walls

The Walls Law Group
Jason Walls

is the founder and principal of The Walls Law Group in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he focuses his practice in the areas of estate and business planning, asset protection, business organization and succession, probate and trust/estate administration. He is a member of WealthCounsel and the North Carolina Bar Association. Mr. Walls also serves as an adjunct professor at the School of Law, Campbell University. He earned his B.A. degree from North Carolina State University and his J.D. degree from School of Law, Campbell University.

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Catherine R Bailey

Catherine R. Bailey

Fresh Start Family Law
Catherine Bailey

is with Fresh Start Family Law, where she represents clients in family law matters including divorce, domestic violence, child custody, child support, alimony, equitable distribution, separation agreements, surrogacy, and mediation. Ms. Bailey's practice has a special emphasis in all aspects of military divorce, including military pension division. She is a North Carolina board-certified family law specialist, as well as a North Carolina certified family financial mediator who performs mediations in family law cases. Ms. Bailey earned her B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law.

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Jason F Hicks

Jason F. Hicks

Guilford County Attorney's Office
Jason Hicks

is an assistant county attorney with Guilford County, North Carolina. He is licensed in both Tennessee and North Carolina. Over the course of his career, Mr. Hicks has practiced family/divorce law, probate and litigation, as well as elder law, juvenile law, and local government law. He is a member of the District 24 (North Carolina), Putnam County (Tennessee), Tennessee, North Carolina, and American bar associations. Mr. Hicks is currently the president of the North Carolina DSS Attorney's Association. He is past-president of the Putnam County Bar Association and the Upper Cumberland Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Hicks is also the past vice president of the Tennessee Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division. He is a frequent speaker at legal education seminars, having presented over forty CLE presentations. Mr. Hicks is a barrister member of the Guilford Chapter, American Inn of Courts. He earned his B.A. degree from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his J.D. degree from Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law.

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Janet L Gemmell

Janet L. Gemmell

Cape Fear Family Law
Janet Gemmell

is the founder and managing member of Cape Fear Family Law, with offices in in Wilmington and Jacksonville, North Carolina. She is a board-certified family law specialist. Ms. Gemmell focuses her practice on family law issues, including child custody issues, relocation matters, equitable distribution (or in other words division) of property, and alimony and spousal support. She has been a contributing writer and public speaker on divorce law topics for local publications and a national magazine, and is an active presenter of continuing legal education seminars. Ms. Gemmell also manages her firm's Vlog on YouTube. She is a member of the North Carolina State Bar Family Law Section, as well as the American Bar Association and The Florida Bar. Ms. Gemmell earned her B.A. degree, cum laude, from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington; and her J.D. degree from the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University.

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