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August 2011
Family Law Institute 2011 - CD Homestudy
Program Description:
Colorado's Must-Attend Family Law Event!
Our goal for the 2011 Institute is to educate, entertain, and challenge our members to join the revolution for change. As part of that, we adopted The Beatles' song "Revolution" as our theme. In addition to the amazing guitar licks, the words are an inspiration. When we talk about change, we are focusing on inspiring lawyers, judges, and experts to bring back respect and dignity to the legal processes around family issues. We are also focusing on new ways to deal with substantive law issues, such as working around the "double-dip" case law, finding new resources to support imputing income to unemployed executives, and challenging the assumptions and impositions of cookie-cutter 50-50 parenting plans. Also included in the theme of "change" are a few new components of the Family Law Institute. For example, the ever-popular “Hot Topics” are back, but this time they are being presented by judges.
Topics
Day 1
Hot Topics: Bring on the Judge!
Proffering Evidence
- Learn how to present your Temporary Orders case within a 30-60 minute hearing
The Honorable Magistrate Laura Findorff, Douglas County
The Demise of Remedial Contempt?
- Discussion of whether remedial contempt sanctions actually exist anymore, and how to pursue the necessary relief
The Honorable Magistrate John Livingston, Jefferson County
Pretrial Conferences and Other Solution-Based Ideas with the Court
- Hear what the judges learned at the March 2011 “What Works” Judicial Conference and ideas of how to use the court outside of trial to resolve the case creatively
The Honorable Judge Valeria Spencer, Arapahoe County
Professionalism
- What to do/not to do in and out of the courtroom - Judges talk!
The Honorable Judge Robert Lowrey, El Paso County
Maintenance, Rules of Thumb and/or Presumptive Formula for All Cases (The Inside Story)
- Get the inside story on how judges arrive at their maintenance awards
The Honorable Judge James Klein, Boulder County
Penalties for Not Following Rules and Deadlines
- Listen to what sanctions are/are not available by the trial judge, and when/why/how judges are imposing them and against whom
The Honorable Judge Julie Hoskins, Weld County
Accurate Sworn Financial Statements- How Novel
- Learn what judges consider accurate and what falls short
The Honorable Judge Brian Bowen, Adams County
Bankruptcy and Dissolution, When the Two Worlds Collide
- Review what is and is not dischargeable, and how the automatic stays impacts domestic relations cases
Glen Anstine, US Trustee, US Bankruptcy Court, Denver County
Effective Case Management, They are Doing it Right!
- Hear how to successfully move a case forward, timely and cost-effectively
Andrea Shahmardian, Court Facilitator, and The Honorable Magistrate John Jostad, Larimer County
ChachachaChanges: 5 Ideas of Revolutionary Change
- The challenge of change and resistance to change
- History of recommended changes in Colorado domestic relations
- Solutions- at home and abroad
- Out of court models
- The never married demographic shift-Hennepin County Pilot Court
- Early intervention and case management
- Judicial training and rotation policies
- How to measure change-what equates with “improvement”
- Simplified and 16.2 10 years later-what should we measure-what do we need to change?
- Increasing numbers of self represented parties-should rules and process be drafted for the majority of cases with added process for the more complex cases?
Pam Gagel, Esq., Assistant Director, Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System
Day 2
Session 1
Helping High-Conflict Families Avoid the Revolving Door of Family Court
- Educational approaches
- A collaboration between mental health professionals and the parties to carve out a workable custody and access plan, means of communication without conflict, and ways to make decisions
- The utilization of parenting coordinators/case managers
Dr. Leslie Drozd
Session 3
Dissolving Same Sex Relationships New School Style
- Applicability of declarations of invalidity
- Contractual resolution
- Other creative solutions to address property division, support, and parental responsibilities
M. David Johnson, Esq.
Session 4
Helping Families When Children are Alienated
- Learning from intervention failures
- Developing useful approaches
Dr. Bill Fyfe and Dr. Leslie Drodz
Session 5
HIPAA-It Ain't What Has Been Argued
- What a party can be asked to release and/or produce despite HIPAA
- Powers of courts to enter orders for medical and mental health records
- Privilege applicability, and limits
Richard Rotole, Esq.
Session 6
Mediation Gone Wild: Ethics, Enforceability and Confidentiality
- What is/is not confidential in mediation anymore?
- Party fouls in the midst of mediation
- When an agreement reached in mediation is enforceable
Kevin
Session 7
Assessment of Allegations of Intimate Partner Violence
- A new and practical conceptualization of intimate partner violence
- How to use this way of looking at intimate partner violence in practice: assessment and treatment
Dr. Leslie Drozd
Session 8
“All You Need is LOVE” - Avoiding the Battle of the Experts
- Engagement models for experts
- Addressing subjective issues effectively
- Practical application
Eric Six, CPA, and Bill Vincent, CPA
Session 9
This Isn't Your Mother's Voc Eval
- Tools for imputing income to historically high-end wage earners
- Creative resources in this down economy and when judges are resisting traditional vocational evaluations
Arlen Brammer, Esq.
Session 10
Changes in the Child and Family Investigator Role
- Reasons for modifying the role
- Already implemented changes in the role
- Potential changes on the horizon
The Honorable Judge Stephen Schapanski, Dr. Shirley Thomas, Bill Delisio
Moderated by Dr. Les Katz
Session 11
“Not a Second Time” - Double Dipping and Personal Goodwill,
- Gross income for maintenance/child support
- Income vs. assets for valuation purposes
- Practical application
The Honorable Judge Randall Arp, Yvonne Zuber, CPA, and Jim TenBrook, CPA
Session 12
Communication in the Age of Complexity- Evidence and Discovery Issues
- Challenges of discovering and introducing into evidence social network site information, text messages, instant messages, and emails
- Authenticating digital data susceptible to alteration
E. Michael Canges, Esq., and Bill McLeod
Luncheon, "Change, Life's One Constant” (no CLE credits for this presentation)
Dr. Dana Cogan
Session 13
Sex, Drugs and Rock-n-Roll; How Much is Too Much for the Parental Responsibilities Evaluator?
- Separating the wheat from the chaff of allegations
- What types of behaviors rise to the level of endangerment?
- What types of behaviors effect best interests and impact parenting plans?
Dr. Shelley Bresnick, Dr. Kathleen McNamara, Dr. Dan Mosley, Dr. George Nicholos
Session 14
Open Memo to the Bench
- What works and what doesn't from the lawyers' perspective
- Pet peeves from the practitioner's viewpoint
- What attorneys want to see changed in the family courts
- Help generate an actual open memo to the bench!
The Honorable James S. Miller, Esq., The Honorable Christopher Cross, and Doris Truhlar, Esq.
Session 15
Maintenance Tax Issues Made Easy- “Don't Work for the Tax Man”
- Maintenance and recapture
- Taxability of maintenance payments
- Practical application
Preston Hofer, CPA, and Trish Cooper, Esq.
Presenting a New System of Divorce, the Remix
Brought to you by the Plan B Committee (Dr. Dana Cogan, Helen Shreves, Esq., Joan McWilliams, Esq., The Honorable Angela Arkin, The Honorable Judge Robert Russell, II, The Honorable Beth Elliot-Dumler, and The Honorable Magistrate Ruben Hernandez)
- Where we were a year ago
- Where we are now
- The design of a pilot project
- Adaptation to different jurisdictions
- Where you'd like to see us go
The Kids are on Their Own: Legal Ethics and the Duty of Loyalty to Your Client
- Where is the lawyer's ethical duty when representing a parent in an allocation of parental responsibilities?
- Do lawyers owe the subject child any ethical duty?
The Honorable Judge Edward C. Moss
Session 16
50/50 Parenting Time: When It's Not the Best Solution
- Child development factors
- Special needs factors
- Parent/child fit
- Parenting deficits
Dr. Les Katz
Session 17
“The Not So Long, But Sometimes Winding Road” of Business Valuation in Colorado Divorce - Standards, Approaches and Methods of Valuing Business & Professional Practices
- Standard of value issues
- Business valuation from the Colorado perspective
- Practical application
Rob Levis, CPA
Session 18
Lawyers as Peacemakers
- The tools of the evolved peacemaker
- The fuel peacemakers need
- Benefits
Terri Harrington, Esq.
Day 3
Case Law Update - The Reunion Tour
Ron Litvak, Esq., and Tim Mehrtens, Esq.
Ethics in the Movies - The Sequel
Professor Eli Wald
Judges' Panel, Moderated by Planning Committee
- Hear from judges about their thoughts on allocating debt in negative net worth cases, relocation cases, trust valuations, separate property tracing, contribution to the marriage, attorneys' fees and costs awards, and much, much more!
The Honorable Judge Angela Arkin, Douglas County, The Honorable Judge Jack Berryhill, Jefferson County, The Honorable Judge Herbert Stern, Denver County, The Honorable Chief Judge James Boyd, Pitkin County, The Honorable Chief Judge Thomas Moorhead, Eagle County, The Honorable Chief Judge Greg Lyman, La Plata County, The Honorable Judge David J. Richman, Colorado Court of Appeals
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $489.00 USD
- Member Price $449.00 USD
- General Credits 31.00
- Ethics Credits 3.40
- EDI Credits