Fall Family Law Update

Fall Family Law Update - WEBCAST

October 2009

Fall Family Law Update

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Program Highlights

What You Will Learn:

- Case Law Update

- Family Law and the Financial Crisis: How to Survive Until Permanent Orders

- The Military Family: Parental Responsibilities and Support, with Special Emphasis on Medical Disability, Early Retirement and Deployment Issues

- Ethics for Family Law Attorneys - Fee Agreements and More

- CFI/CLR Issues for Family Law Attorneys: Substance Abuse and Parental Responsibilities

- What Family Law Attorneys Should Know About Bankruptcy Law

- The Judges Speak: Relocation and Attorney Professionalism

Program Description

It's that time again - time to register for the Annual Fall Family Law Update! Each year the Fall Family Law Update is packed with practical, useful instruction in topics family law attorneys need to know. This year is no exception!

As always, you will receive succinct summaries of recent family law case decisions. In addition, this year's program provides you with creative strategies to use when dealing with the unique challenges posed by the financial crisis. Learn how and when to use an arbiter or mediator for division of troublesome assets, about the role of the magistrate, about key jurisdictional issues, and more! In addition, learn about the latest court decisions in this area and how they affect your family law clients.

You will also hear from a panel of distinguished Colorado District Court Judges as they discuss their views on the relocation of parties in family law cases and on attorney professionalism in the courtroom!

Other hot topics to be discussed include the legal ethics of family law fee agreements, timely Child and Family Investigator and Child Legal Representative issues, parental responsibilities, support, and retirement/pension issues when a parent is a current or former member of the military, and more!

Practical, affordable, and timely - that's the tradition for attorneys attending the Fall Family Law Update. Don't delay…

Agenda

PLEASE NOTE EARLY START TIME

8:00 am - 8:30 am

Registration

8:30 am - 8:35 am

Welcome and Introduction

Extended by Nathan M. J. Dowell, Esq. and Sarah W. Quinlan, Esq.

8:35 am - 9:30 am

Case Law Update

Presented by Ronald D. Litvak, Esq. and Courtney J. Leathers, Esq.

9:35 am - 10:25 am

Family Law and the Financial Crisis: How to Survive Until Permanent Orders

- Addressing temporary orders with a mediator: Benefits versus costs

- Early appointment of an arbiter: Interim solutions and deferring permanent resolution

- Should the practitioner request the Court or arbiter to defer division of assets and defer valuation of business and incomes?

- Averaging past years' incomes in a floundering market

- How do In re the Marriage of Fernstrum, In re the Marriage of Caufman and In re the Marriage of Follwell apply to reserve jurisdiction in this financial climate?

- Magistrate's duties, abilities and authority: Can the Court perform effective triage?

Presented by the Honorable Rebecca S. Moss, Elizabeth Henson, Esq., Mediator-Arbiter, and Robert T. Hinds, III, Esq.

10:25 am - 10:35 am

Break (10 minutes)

10:35 am - 11:15 am

Hot CFI/CLR Issues for Family Law Attorneys: Substance Abuse and Parental Responsibilities

Get the latest insight into substance abuse problems that often affect parental responsibilities in family law cases, including:

- Testing issues

- Abuse versus dependence

- Medical marijuana

- And more!

Presented by John A. Rymers, MA, LPC, CAC III

11:15 am - 12:05 pm

Ethics for Family Law Attorneys: Fee Agreements and More!

Presented by James S. (Jamie) Sudler, III, Esq., Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel, Colorado Supreme Court

12:05 pm - 1:15 pm

Lunch (On Your Own)

1:15 pm - 2:05 pm

When Johnny or Mary Comes Marching Home Again: Parenting, Support, and Deployment Issues When a Parent is in the Military

- Military Administrative Remedies for Non-support

- Relocation of the Custodial Parent

- Mobilization of the Military Parent: Child Custody Considerations

- Deployment and Return from Deployment of a Military Parent and How Family Law Cases are Affected

- Stays When a Military Parent is Unavailable Due to Military Duties

- How the Servicemembers' Civil Relief Act Affects Parenting and Child Support Issues

- Military Early Retirement and Medical Disability and the Effects on Child Custody and Support

- And More!

Presented by Carl O. Graham, Esq.

2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

View from the Bench: Relocation and Attorney Professionalism

Hear from a panel of prominent Colorado judges, hailing from different judicial districts, on the issues of:

- Relocation (particularly when the party is relocating to seek employment or remain employed); and,

- Attorney professionalism (including what the judges expect from the attorneys appearing before them, required decorum, pet peeves, and “must do's” for an attorney to be effective in court)

Presented by Honorable Jann P. DuBois, Honorable Thomas R. Ensor, Honorable F. Michael Goodbee, Honorable O. John Kuenhold, and Honorable Chris Melonakis

Panel Moderators: Nathan M. J. Dowell, Esq. and Sarah W. Quinlan, Esq.

3:00 pm - 3:10 pm

Break (10 minutes)

3:10 pm - 4:00 pm

What Family Law Attorneys Should Know About Bankruptcy Law

Learn about

- The impact of the automatic stay on domestic cases

- The differences between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13

- How the means test works

- Domestic Support Obligations and how they impact your client

- Bankruptcy law do's and don'ts for family law attorneys

Presented by John L. Eckelberry, Esq.

4:00 pm

Adjourn

Faculty:

Nathan M. J. Dowell, Program Co-chair

Attorney Mediator

Litvak Litvak Mehrtens and Epstein, PC

Denver, CO

Sarah W. Quinlan, Esq., Program Co-chair

Fontana & Associates, PC

Littleton, CO

Honorable Jann P. DuBois