CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Procedure Before Trial/Hearing

• ADA Accommodation
• Amending Pleadings
• Anonymity in Litigation
• Arbitration
• Attorney-Client Privilege
• Bifurcation
• Calculating Time to Perform Act
• Case Management
• Chambers Conferences
• Change of Address
• Civil Statutes & Rules: Applicability in F/L Matters
• Civil Suits Involving Family Law Issues
• Civility
• Collaborative Law
• Complex Case Designation
• Conflicts of Interest
• Consolidation
• Contact With Opposing Expert
• Continuances
• Court Control of Proceedings
• Court Reporters
• Date of Separation
• Days Defined
• Declarations of Disclosure
• Defaults/Affidavits
• Discovery of 3rd Parties' Financial Info.
• Disentitlement Doctrine
• Dismissal
• Disqualification of Attorney
• Duty of Disclosure
• Effect of Foreign Law
• Electronic Filings
• Electronically Stored Information (ESI)
• Enforcement of Oral or Written Settlement
• Evidentiary Issues: Selected
• Ex Parte Communications
• Exclusive Custody Action
• Facsimile (FAX) Filing/Service
• Family Court Jurisdiction
• Federal Jurisdiction
• Fee Waivers
• Guardians Ad Litem
• Inadvertent Receipt of Priv. Docs
• Income & Expense Declaration
• Informality of Proceedings
• Interpreters
• Joinder
• Judicial Council Rules/Forms
• Judicial Estoppel
• Judicial Officers/Referees/Masters
• Jurisdiction-In Personam
• Jurisdiction-In Rem
• Jurisdiction-Subject Matter/Residency
• Jurisdiction: Priority of
• Litigation Privilege
• Local Rules: Effect of
• Mediation
• Motions/OSCs
• Notice of Nonavailability
• Preemption of Local Rules/Forms
• Reconciliation Services
• Restraining Orders (TRO/Prelim. Inj.)
• Retroactivity of Fam. Code Statutes
• Right to Counsel
• Sealing Files
• Self-Represented Litigants (In Pro Pers)
• Service of Process
• Settlement Agreements
• Social Security Numbers
• Spoliation of Evidence
• Stare Decisis
• Statutes of Limitation
• Stay of Proceedings Pending Pymt of Fees
• Suing Attorney for Civil Conspiracy with Client
• Summaries of Law
• Terminating Sanctions
• Torts
• Trials/Requests for Orders
• Unbundling
• Venue
• Verification of Pleadings
• Vexatious Litigants
• Withdrawal of Attorney