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AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2011

55 Hours of MCLE/Specialization Credit

This program is a “must” for those preparing to take

the Certified Family Law Specialist Exam!

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California Family Law Report (CFLR) will present the bi-annual Advanced Family Law Course (AFLC) in August and September 2011. This completely redesigned program showcases an all-star faculty of 19 judges and lawyers!

AFLC is designed for both experienced family law practitioners and attorneys new to family law. It is also a “must” for those preparing to take the Certified Family Law Specialist Exam!Our expert faculty will provide test-taking tips and suggestions on how to improve your study skills. Attendees will sit for a practice exam that will be reviewed at the end of the course.

The program consists of 5 days (30 hours) of live presentations, plus 25 hours of on-demand video lectures. These video lectures can be accessed at any time and any place, so that you can review exam topics or focus on particular substantive areas at your convenience. This State Bar-approved course will satisfy the entire educational requirement for Family Law Specialist certification (or recertification), including 6 hours of credit in Category 5 (Psychology and Counseling).

Past attendees, as well as first-timers, will benefit from AFLC’s guidance on complex family issues and up-to-the-minute review of new case law. This is truly a “don't miss” event!

• Jurisdiction and Procedure

• Dissolution of Marriage and Legal Separation

• Same-Sex Marriage and Registered Domestic Partnerships • Paternity Proceedings

• Domestic Violence Proceedings • Child Custody

• Child Support

• Adoption and Guardianship

• Deferred Compensation and Business Valuation • Spousal Support

• Attorney Fees and Costs • Bankruptcy

• Division of Property • Tax Issues in Family Law • Writs and Appeals

• Enforcement and Contempt • Mediation and Collaborative Law • Psychology and Counseling • Test-Taking Preparation • Ethical Considerations

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The course materials include a complete set of slides and worksheets used by the presenters. Practice exam questions and answer booklets are provided to enrollees preparing to take the Certified Family Law Specialist Exam. You will also receive the materials needed for the Psychology and Counseling requirements. Enrollees can select to receive printed course materials or course materials on USB drive, which allows you to save them to your hard drive and take notes directly next to the material covered. See order form to make your selection.

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To enroll or for more information, call

1-800-747-3161 (ext. 2)

CFLR has gone “GREEN”!!! You can now select course materials on USB drive!

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55 HOURS MCLE/SPECIALIZ

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Approval of specialization credit in Family Law has been granted by the California Board of Legal Specialization, and approval of MCLE credit for this activity has been granted by the State Bar of California in the amount of 55 hours, including 2 hours of legal ethics. Tuition includes 30 hours at the live program and 25 hours of on-demand video. Visitwww.CFLRonline.comTM

and www.RutterOnline.comTM _{to earn additional MCLE participatory credit!}

AVAILABLE AT A SPECIAL PRICE TO ENROLLEES

Judge and attorney experts take you step-by-step through domestic relations and dissolution practice under the Family Code, providing proven strategies, tactics and time-savings tips. Cites to applicable statutes, statewide and local rules of court, and cases are included.

THE RUTTER GROUP CALIFORNIA PRACTICE GUIDE

FAMILY LAW

by Judge William P. Hogoboom(Ret.)and Justice Donald B. King(Ret.)

Contributing Editors: Judge Kenneth A. Black(Ret.), Bruce E. Cooperman and Michael Asimow

JUDGE WILLIAM P. HOGOBOOM(Ret.) Former Supervising Judge

Family Law Dept. Los Angeles Superior Court

AUTHORS

• First Client Interview

• Choosing Appropriate Status Relief

• Commencing the Proceedings

• Response and Postpetition Matters

• Orders Pending Trial

• Child and Spousal/ Domestic Partner Support

• Custody and Visitation

• Marital Property and Debts

• Premarital, Marital and Marital Settlement Agreements

• Tax Aspects of Marriage Termination

• Trial Preparation

• Default and Uncontested Hearings

• Contested Trials

• Attorney Fees, Costs and Sanctions

• Dismissals, Statements of Decision and Judgments

• Challenging the Judgment: Motions, Appeals and Writs

• Modification of Orders and Judgments

• Enforcement of Orders and Judgments

• Termination of Invalid

Marriage/Domestic Partnership

• Nonmarital Cohabitation and Domestic Partnerships CONTENTS

JUSTICE DONALD B. KING(Ret.) Calif. Court of Appeal

1st Dist., Div. 5 3 VOLUMES• OVER 4,550 PAGES

J_{Special Enrollee Price ...$250} J_{Regular Price...$495} Price includes shipping; add applicable sales tax.

To order or for more information, call

1-800-747-3161 (ext. 2)

The specialization exam will be on held Tuesday, October 25, 2011 at the Oakland Convention Center at Marriott City Center and the Pasadena Convention Center (next exam thereafter is in 2013). Contact the State Bar directly at (415) 538-2000 to register for the exam. Exam registration is also available at www.californiaspecialist.org. Or, go to the State Bar of California website: www.calbar.ca.gov.

A practice examination and test-taking skills session will be offered during the course. If you are taking the CFLS exam, we strongly suggest that you stay for this optional session. Additional information regarding the practice test will be announced on the first day of the program.

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JUDGE THOMAS TRENT LEWIS(Program Director) is a CFLS since 1986 and a member of AAML. He was assigned to the Los Angeles Superior Court Family Law Department in 2006. He currently serves on the CJER Family Law Education Committee. He is a frequent CFLR/Rutter Group panelist and teaches at the FLRC update program, Family Law 101 and AFLC. He was the 2010 AAML Southern California Judicial Officer of the Year.

MICHAEL ASIMOW is a visiting professor at Stanford Law School and Professor of Law Emeritus at UCLA Law School. He teaches income tax, contracts and administrative law. Asimow is the author of the tax chapters in The Rutter Group's California Practice Guide: Family Lawand California Practice Guide: Real Property Transactions. He is also the lead author of The Rutter Group’s forthcoming California Practice Guide: Administrative Law and Procedure.

JUDGE KENNETH A. BLACK (Ret.) served three years as Supervising Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court Family Law Department. He has received many honors, including the State Bar Family Law Section's Judicial Officer of the Year Award and the Spencer Brandeis Family Service Award. He lectures statewide on family law topics and is a contributing editor of The Rutter Group’s California Practice Guide: Family Law.

THOMAS PAINE DUNLAP is a partner in the family law firm of Trope and Trope and has been a CALS since 2001. He specializes in family law appeals and writs and has been the appellate attorney in numerous published cases that have established or clarified important family law principles.

IRA M. FRIEDMAN is a partner in the Beverly Hills law firm of Friedman & Friedman. He has been a CFLS since 1983. He is a Fellow of both the California and International AAML. He is a past Chair of both the Beverly Hills Bar Association and Los Angeles County Bar Family Law Sections. He has lectured for the American Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Beverly Hills Bar Association and the Southern California Chapter of AAML.

JUDGE SCOTT GORDON serves on the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He is currently assigned to the Family Law Department as the Assistant Supervising Judge. Before taking the bench, Judge Gordon served with the L.A. District Attorney's Office for 16 years and was a detective with the Santa Monica Police Department for eight years. He has served as Adjunct Professor of Law for Southwestern University School of Law for the past 19 years. He has taught family law, community property, trial advocacy, criminal procedure and forensic evidence.

STEPHEN A. KOLODNY is a CFLS and principal partner in the Beverly Hills firm of Kolodny & Anteau. He is a member of AAML (past President of both the Southern California and International chapters), founding Member of American College of Family Trial Lawyers and its recently retired Executive Vice-President, former Chair of LACBA Family Law Section, and Co-Chair of the Family Law Trial Institute Training Program in Houston.

KRISTINE LEWIS has over 25 years of experience in client relations in the family law field, including initial client interviews through all aspects of the client relationship. She has a wealth of practical office management tips for small family law firms.

FORREST MOSTEN is a CFLS and has been mediating in private practice since 1979. He limits his practice to mediation, collaborative and unbundled representation of high conflict and complex legal matters. He has been named 2011 Super Lawyer in Family Law and one of California's Top 25 Family Mediators by the Daily Journal. His pioneering work enables him to train mediators around the world.

JUDGE CHARLES NOVACK was appointed to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in 2010. Before then, Judge Novack practiced bankruptcy law in Oakland for 16 years. Judge Novack also served as an associate professor at California State University, East Bay. He frequently lectures on the interplay between bankruptcy and family law.

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ELLEN PECK is a sole practitioner from Escondido, California. Her practice is limited to legal and expert services concerning the Professional Responsibilities of lawyers. She is a co-author of The Rutter Group's California Practice Guide: Professional Responsibility. She has served as ethics counsel to the State Bar and the ABA. She is past Chair of the State Bar's Committee on Professional Conduct.

JUDGE AMY M. PELLMAN served as Legal Director at The Alliance for Children Rights before taking the bench. She practiced appellate and trial work in the Children's Court and has taught and published extensively in the area of juvenile rights. She is known as a national advocate for children's rights and received the ABA Child Advocacy award. She sat in a Family Law trial assignment from 2005 to 2010. Currently, Judge Pellman is assigned to the Dependency Court in a Trial Department.

JUDGE ROBERT A. SCHNIDER (Ret.), CFLS, was a partner in the law firm of Schnider & Schnider from 1971 until his election as a Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner in 1981, where he was assigned to the Family Law Department. In 2002, Commissioner Schnider was appointed Judge of the Superior Court. From 2005-2007, he was the Supervising Judge of the Family Law Department. He retired from the bench at the end of 2008 and now works as a private neutral through ARC. The State Bar of California named him Judicial Officer of the Year in 1997.

CHRISTINE HAYES SICKLER, a 1976 graduate of Hastings College of the Law, became a CFLS in 1991 and is a principal of the Law Offices of Beatrice L. Snider, APC in San Diego. Ms. Sickler serves as a Judge Pro Tem for the San Diego Superior Court, Family Law Division, and is a frequent lecturer on family law issues.

BEATRICE L. SNIDERhas been a CFLS since 1980 and is founder of the Law Offices of Beatrice L. Snider, APC in San Diego. Ms. Snider serves as a Judge Pro Tem for the San Diego Superior Court, Family Law Division, and has written several articles and lectured on family law and business valuations in divorce.

STEVEN SPARTA, Ph.D., is in independent practice and is frequently court appointed to serve in family law cases. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD School of Medicine, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at SDSU. He was Chair of the Ethics Committee of the American Psychological Association and formerly was Chief Psychologist at Children's Hospital San Diego.

MICHAEL TOBRINER has practiced family law in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years. He devotes his practice to Alternative Dispute Resolution in family law. Michael is a CFLS and a member of AAML. He has served as a mediator and as collaborative counsel in numerous family law cases and is a participating member of Collaborative Practice San Francisco and the International Association of Collaborative Professionals.

MARK L. TUFT is a co-author of The Rutter Group’s California Practice Guide: Professional Responsibility.He is Vice-Chair of the California State Bar Commission on the Revision of the Rules of Professional Conduct, Adjunct Professor at USF School of Law and a member of the American Law Institute. Mr. Tuft is past Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco and a recipient of that Bar Association's Award of Merit.

STEPHEN JAMES WAGNER is a CFLS and partner in the Sacramento law firm of Dick & Wagner, specializing in complex family law matters, including issues relating to fiduciary duties, characterization, tracings, business valuations and support. He is a member of the ACFLS and California and International AAML. He is co-author, along with Dawn Gray, of the LexisNexis/Matthew Bender publication, Complex Issues in California Law. He is a speaker at the Family Law Trial Institute in Houston, and FLRC.

COMMISSIONER DAVID S. WEINBERG (Ret.) is a private judge in Orange County. He was previously in private practice at Weinberg & Weinberg, a Deputy District Attorney, and a Commissioner in Orange County. He is a recipient of the J.E.T. Rutter Award, Orange County Bar Association, Family Law Section and a member of the Western State University College of Law Hall of Fame.

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August 20 - 21, 2011 (Sat. & Sun.) AND

August 26 - 28, 2011 (Fri. - Sun.) Westin South Coast Plaza

686 Anton Boulevard (714) 540-2500

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F Costa Mesa Advance Tuition(see Tuition Deadlines) $ 2,895

F Costa Mesa “At Door” Tuition $ 3,350

F Costa Mesa CFLS & Prior AFLC Attendee Special Rate $1,447.50

F California Practice Guide: Family Law (regularly $495) $250 ADD applicable sales tax on $250 Practice Guide

F Do NOT send Updates on the Practice Guide. I understand it has limited value without Updates. (Cost of 2010 Update was $164.)

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Enrollees are entitled to early enrollment discounts. Your registration(s) will be considered “At Door” unless received in our office by the deadline dates listed below (NO EXCEPTIONS):

Costa Mesa Advance tuition deadline: 8-12-2011 Santa Clara Advance tuition deadline: 9-2-2011

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hotels:Although hotels block rooms at a special rate, they may become unavailable a few weeks before the course begins.

Refunds:Tuition is 80% refundable up to 10 days before the start of the selected program. Confirmation Will Be Sent:Retain a copy of your completed registration form. If you do not preregister, call to confirm that space is available and that there are no changes in location or times.

Additional Fees:$75 split registration; $50 each change in location.

TUITION

F Course Materials on USB Drive (Preferred)

F Printed Course Materials

COURSE MATERIALS Please make your selection below

F 2011 AFLC CD(available 10/2011) $ 2,875

F 2011 AFLC DVD(available 10/2011) $ 2,885

F 2011 AFLC Psych. & Counseling CD (available 8/2011) $ 570

F 2011 AFLC Psych. & Counseling DVD(available 8/2011) $ 590 ADD applicable sales tax

AUDIO/VISUAL PROGRAMS

Note:This program is produced in conjunction with the California Family Law Report (CFLR). The TRG RUTTERPASS and LAW FIRMPASSare not accepted for this program.

CFLR has gone “GREEN”!!! Please select which

method you would like to receive

your course materials

LIVE & VIDEO REPLAY PROGRAM 3 days live/2 days video replay

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September 10 - 11, 2011 (Sat. & Sun.) AND

September 16 - 18, 2011 (Fri. - Sun.) Hyatt Regency Santa Clara

5101 Great American Parkway (408) 200-1234

3 ways to enroll!

Call1-800-747-3161 (ext. 2)

Visit www.CFLR.comTM

Mail or fax this order form Mail to THE RUTTER GROUP: 15760 Ventura Boulevard • Suite 630

Encino, CA 91436 Fax to 1-818-377-7839

F Santa Clara Advance Tuition(see Tuition Deadlines) $ 2,895

F Santa Clara “At Door” Tuition $ 3,350