| Deposing Custody Litigants |
Study Group |
2011 |
| An Imperfect Toolkit: Parental Abduction Prevention and Remedies 10 REASONS THE HAGUE CONVENTION MAY NOT BE ENOUGH |
Minors at Risk Caucus |
2011 |
| Children’s Voices In Family Court Minors Testifying? ... Major Concerns! |
Dinner meeting |
2011 |
| An Overview of Transnational Employment Issues: Employment, Family, Tax, and Inheritance |
“Comprehensive Look at Transnational Employment Issues: The Tax, Family, Employment, Immigration (and Inheritance) Issues.” |
2011 |
| Substance, Structure and Style: Writing About Children and their Families in Family Court Settings |
AFCC-CA Writing Institute, Annual Conference San Francisco |
2011 |
| Evaluator Makeover Workshop |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference San Francisco |
2011 |
| “Why Can’t the Little Girl Have Two Daddies and a Mommy?” Considering Three (or More) Parent Families |
AFCC 48th Annual Conference -- Orlando |
2011 |
| Travels With Finney -- A Family Lawyer and her IPad |
ACFLS Spring Seminar -- Indian Wells |
2011 |
| Move-Away Custodial Cases |
2011 AOC/LAAC Family Law Conference |
2011 |
| PROBLEMS WITH POP-DEC’S |
State Bar of California Annual Meeting |
2010 |
| Just the Facts, Mam, Just the Facts: Admissible Evidence for Minors Counsel |
Minors at Risk Caucus |
2010 |
| Working Effectively with Parents’ Counsel- Dos and Don’ts |
LACBA 2010 Minors’ Counsel Training October 15-16, 2010 |
2010 |
| An Imperfect Toolkit: Parental Abduction Prevention and Remedies |
Dinner Meeting -- San Fernando Valley Bar Association, Family Law Section |
2010 |
| ATTORNEYS’ FEES AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE TOOLKIT FOR CASES WHERE A PARTY SHOWS LITTLE OR NO INCOME, BUT MANAGES TO FUND A SUBSTANTIAL LITIGATION BUDGET FROM THIRD PARTY HELP OR OTHER SOURCES |
Association of Certified Family Law Specialists Spring Seminar |
2010 |
| Custody Lawyer/ Mediator/ Evaluator as Storyteller: Shaping Narratives to Help Decisionmakers Craft Individualized Parenting Plans |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference |
2010 |
| Anatomy of a Parenting Plan Full Day Institute |
AFCC 47th Annual Conference -- Denver |
2010 |
| Deposing Custody Litigants |
ACFLS North Chapter Dinner |
2010 |
| Hearing Children’s Voices in CDR |
"Helping Families: New Directions in Consensual Dispute Resolution." |
2010 |
| Propositon 8 Cases and the California Supreme Court |
Law Day Dinner |
2009 |
| Spot the Issues: Civil Marriage in California for Same-Sex Couples |
LACBA Family Law Inns of Court |
2009 |
| Parenting Plans for Toddlers and Teenagers |
Family Law Section Monthly Dinner |
2009 |
| Deposing Custody Litigants |
BHBA Famlly Law Section dinner |
2009 |
| International Moveaway Cases: Practical Issues |
AFCC 42nd Annual Conference |
2009 |
| Are Lawyers Unbundling In a Frigid Economy? |
2nd Annual Small Firm and Solo Practitioners Conference: MISSION POSSIBLE |
2009 |
| Family Law Fairness After Seagondollar and Elkins: A Pragmatic Approach |
White, Zuckerman, Warsavsky, Luna, Wolf & Hunt San Gabriel Valley Family Law Study Group |
2008 |
| First Do No Harm - Recognizing Our Limitations |
Minors' Counsel Training Program |
2008 |
| Handling Move-Away Cases in the Public Law Setting A Moving Target: Requirements and Rights in Move-Away Cases |
Legal Aid Association of California 2008 Family Law Conference |
2008 |
| The Custody Lawyer/ Mediator/ Evaluator as Storyteller: Shaping Narratives to Help Decisionmakers Craft Individualized Parenting Plans |
AFCC Annual Conference Vancouver, Canada: Fitting the Forum to the Family: Emerging Challenges for Family Courts |
2008 |
| The Custody Lawyer as Storyteller: Drafting Admissible, Compelling, and Effective Declarations |
2008 Annual Meeting State Bar of CA |
2008 |
| A Moving Target: Requirements and Rights in Move-Away Cases |
State Bar of California Annual Meeting |
2007 |
| Parentage, Interstate & International Custody Buzzwords Jeopardy |
Family Law Buzzwords |
2006 |
| Brown v. Yana |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference |
2006 |
| It’s a Small World After All: Understanding and Addressing International Child Custody and Visitation Cases (Daylong Special Institute) |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference |
2006 |
| Keynote Address The Natural: Rules of the Game |
2006 Spring Training: AAML No. Cal. |
2006 |
| Same-sex Parentage Issues |
Family Law Section Monthly Dinner |
2005 |
| Parentage Issues for Domestic Partners and Same-Sex Couples California’s Parentage Law Revolution: Step By Step |
Domestic Partners |
2005 |
| INTERVIEWING CLIENTS IN RELOCATION CASES |
Trial Advocacy Seminar, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (California - South chapter) |
2004 |
| The Changing Face of California Parentage Law – Beyond Birth and Blood Tests: Social Parents, Presumed Parents and Intended Parents |
State Bar of California Annual Meeting |
2004 |
| Child Custody Evaluations: Form Follows Function |
Family Law Section Luncheon |
2004 |
| Anatomy of a Parenting Plan |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference |
2004 |
| Relocation And Custody Modification Revisited: The California Supreme Court And Marriage of LaMusga |
AFCC 41st Annual Conference: Best Interests Revisited, Challenging Our Assumptions |
2004 |
| Move-Aways and Modifications — The Impact of Marriage of LaMusga |
Administrative Office of the Courts Family Court Services Training |
2004 |
| The “Right to Remove” of the Custodial Parent — the Burgess Case and Subsequent Cases |
The Hague Child Abduction Convention Seminar |
2003 |
| Moving Away in the New Millenium |
State Bar of California Annual Meeting |
2003 |
| The Role of the Psychological Expert Witness in International Custody Proceedings |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference |
2003 |
| Practical Implications of Recent Changes in Custody Law |
ACFLS Children's Issues |
2003 |
| Rethinking Joint and Sole Legal Custody Orders |
State Bar of California Annual Meeting |
2002 |
| International Move-Away Cases: Law and Practice |
Family Law Section Luncheon |
2002 |
| Move-Aways With Young Children (included section on international moveaways) Special Institute |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference |
2002 |
| Legal Custody and Best Interests (Assessing and Allocating Communication and Decision-Making Authority) |
AFCC-CA Annual Conference |
2002 |
| Evaluating Appointment Orders |
AFCC Fifth International Symposium on Child Custody Evaluations |
2002 |
| California Domestic Violence Update: Highlights of Changes in Cal DV Law for Custody Evaluators |
AFCC Fifth International Symposium on Child Custody Evaluations |
2002 |
| Institute on Relocation: A Custody Lawyer Looks at Move-Aways |
AFCC Fifth International Symposium on Child Custody Evaluations |
2002 |
| The Effect on Children of a Moveaway and How to Stay Close from a Distance |
State Bar of California Annual Meeting |
2001 |
| Parenting Plan Coordinator (Child Custody Special Master) |
LACBA Parenting Plan Coordinator Training |
2001 |
| Assessing and Allocating Legal Custody |
Center for Families, Children & the Courts Administrative Office of the Courts Family Court Services Southern Regional Training |
2001 |
| Tools for Family Lawyers on the Web |
Association of Certified Family Law Specialists Fall Seminar |
2001 |
| Assessing and Allocating Legal Custody |
AFCC-CAL Do Great Work See Great Works in the City of the Roses |
2001 |
| Interviewing Clients in Relocation Cases |
AAML So. Cal 14th Annual Institute of Trial Advocacy |
2001 |
| Inexpensive Computerized Family Law Research Tools |
ACFLS Fall Seminar |
2000 |
| Preventing and Resolving Interstate and International Custody Jurisdictional Disputes |
LACBA Family Law Section Child Custody Colloquium |
1998 |
| “Parenthood: California Style.” |
ACFLS Spring Seminar (Yosemite) |
1998 |
| Painting Family Portraits for the New Paradigm: The Modern Art of Parenting Plan Evaluations |
Joint conferences: ABA Family Law Section and the American Psychological Association |
1997 |
| The Role of the Lawyer in Custody Mediation |
AFCC Annual Conference |
1983 |
| Developing Written Agreements and Working Effectively With Attorneys |
AFCC-Cal (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, CA Chapter) "Mediation of Child Custody and Visitation Disputes" |
1981 |
