This is Part 2 of the 2021 Arizona family law appellate review (non Saba-Femiano opinions, which were Part 1). There were a BUNCH of reported family law cases in Division 1 in 2021, so these are divided up between Part...
This is Part 2 of the 2021 Arizona family law appellate review (non Saba-Femiano opinions, which were Part 1). There were a BUNCH of reported family law cases in Division 1 in 2021, so these are divided up between Part...
When it comes to 2021 appellate decisions, the Saba and Femiano drama deserves its own post . (Spoiler: the drama is still with the Arizona Supreme Court) These first two 2021 appellate decisions to be discussed actually started in 2020....
I’m so pleased to be a part of the Conversations About Domestic Violence in Family Law With Sixteen Experts, along with Bill Eddy and the Hon. Karen Adam. This series of six one-hour video interviews on domestic violence is the...
Arizona’s Child Support Guidelines were recently revised. The new Guidelines can be found here They were adopted by the Supreme Court of Arizona on April 22, 2021 and they’re effective for all child support orders entered on or after 1-1-2022...
Before launching into specifically what was done in the 2022 revisions to Arizona’s Child Support Guidelines, I explored where the changes came from, and why they were made. The simple “why” answer is that every four years, states are supposed...
A majority—sometimes a vast majority – of family law cases involve one or both parties who don’t have lawyers. Sometimes the lack of a lawyer is voluntary, when a person is sure he or she can handle the case better...
I had an interesting experience in a mediation (as mediator) that has stuck with me for a long time. It’s really made me think about an attorney’s mindset in heading into mediation. This particular family law mediation, like most, started...
I read an interesting article about the (often ignored) benefits of virtual mediation. Some of those benefits are obvious, but the benefits go deeper than I realized. In reading the article, I was able to see how all these things...
Some of the very best resources and instruction on domestic violence (aka Intimate Partner Violence or IPV) can be found at the Battered Women’s Justice Project website It’s actually an amazing site for a number of reasons. As we know,...
Way back in 2008, I wrote an article and a blog post about the First Right of Caretaking provision in Parenting Plans. It’s also sometimes called “first right of refusal” (as if the child was a house being sold) and...
The court of appeals’ recent decision in Cooper (unpublished) gives us some instruction on how to reach a valid, binding agreement pursuant to Rule 69 that will presumably stand up to a later attack on the basis that the agreement...
Picture this scenario: Mother and Father go to trial; one parent has a mental health issue that has affected day-to-day functioning or parenting, and that issue is raised as a reason to award the other parent sole decision-making, or to limit...
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