Presented at the February 2024 AFCC-CA annual conference in San Francisco. Nancy K. D. Lemon has been a leading authority on domestic violence law for over three decades. A retired attorney, she provided expert testimony in many types of cases. She worked on many pieces of California legislation affecting survivors of domestic violence and their children. From 1988 to 2022, Ms. Lemon taught Domestic Violence Law and the Domestic Violence Field Placement at UC Berkeley’s […]
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Below are summaries of cases from May 2021 to April 2022 affecting child custody issues in California. AFCC California and the Insights staff are very grateful to Dawn for her hard work gathering this vital information for our membership. A.M. v. Superior Court A.M. v. Superior Court (2021) 63 Cal.App.5th 343: In this case, the Fourth District granted M’s petition for a writ of mandate compelling the San Diego County Superior Court to vacate its […]
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Below are summaries of cases from 2020 to April 2021 affecting child custody issues in California. AFCC California and the Insights staff are very grateful to Dawn for her hard work gathering this vital information for our membership. In re A.J. In re A.J. (2019) 44 Cal.App.5th 652, 257 Cal.Rptr.3d 366: In this case, decided on December 24 but ordered published on January 23, 2020, the Second District reversed a Los Angeles County Juvenile Court’s […]
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The Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees of the California State Legislature are hosting a Joint Informational Hearing on “Covid and the Courts: Assessing the Impact on Access to Justice, Identifying Best Practices, and Plotting the Path Forward”. The hearing, which is being hosted by Assemblymember Mark Stone, Chair of the Assembly Committee on Judiciary, and Senator Tom Umberg, Chair of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, will include remarks from the Hon. Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye, Chief […]
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At the request of the Honorable Thomas Trent Lewis (Ret.), this article is being published concurrently in the ACFLS Family Law Specialist, the Journal of the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, Winter 2020 edition and in a special edition of the AFCC-CA Insights newsletter, as well as on the AFCC-CA (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, California Chapter) website (https://afcc-ca.org/).[i] To download a PDF of the full article, click here. Introduction Let’s explore Marriage […]
Read MoreBelow are summaries of cases from April 3, 2019 to Oct 1, 2019 affecting child custody issues in California. AFCC California and the Insights staff are very grateful to Dawn for her hard work gathering this vital information for our membership. County of San Diego Department of Child Services v. C.P. County of San Diego Department of Child Services v. C.P. (2019) 34 Cal.App.5th 1, 245 Cal.Rptr.3d 748. In this case, the Fourth District reversed […]
Read MoreBelow are summaries of the recent cases affecting child custody issues in California. AFCC California and the Insights staff are very grateful to Dawn for her hard work gathering this vital information for our membership. In re Marriage of C.T. and R.B. In re Marriage of C.T. and R.B. (Cal. Ct. App., Mar. 19, 2019, No. E070089) 2019 WL 1253362: In this case, the Fourth District reversed a Riverside County judge who issued a final […]
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