Encino, CA
Appeals Lawyer at Encino, CA
Practice Areas: Appeals, Child Custody, Family
OUTCOME: Court adopted analysis set forth in amicus brief.
Child custody modification. Inapplicability of changed circumstances doctrine to pro¬ceedings for modification of temporary child custody orders. Reversed Court of Appeal. (Amicus for minor child)
OUTCOME: Reversed
Procedure and due process rights of family lawyers in proceedings for award of fees from other party for representation of former client. Court cannot use post-recusal findings of judge formerly assign ... ed to case.
OUTCOME: Reversed
Nonbiological parentage. Application of equitable estoppel and intended-parent doctrines to recognize husband and wife who used assisted reproduction technology (donor egg and sperm and services of ges ... tational surrogate) to have a child of their marriage.
OUTCOME: Established child's due process right re parentage
Parentage presumptions. Constitutionality of California’s “conclusive†marital presumption of paternity, minor child’s constitutional interest in preservation of established father-daughter rel ... ationship with her biological and psychological father despite mother’s recon¬ciliation with maritally-presumed father. Affirmed, on other grounds, plurality adopted legal theories advanced. (Minor’s counsel)
OUTCOME: Affirmed.
Prosecution’s failure to turn over an investigating officer's notes of conversation with defense witness, despite informal agreement between prosecution and defense for complete discovery, was not pr ... ejudicial error.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Child custody evaluations, due process. Validity of former Los Angeles Superior Court policy barring custody litigants from cross-examining child custody investigators, and prohibiting custody litigant ... s from obtaining and presenting evidence of investigator’s lack of mental health education and training.
OUTCOME: Prevailed in Cal. Supreme Ct. Reversed trial court
Mandatory dismissal of civil action for failure to serve summons within statutory period. Guidelines for trial courts in determining whether a plaintiff may be excused from manda¬tory dismissal under ... former Code Civ. Proc. §581a upon a showing of due diligence, late discovery of identity of Doe defendant. Reversed.
OUTCOME: Reversed
Child custody relocation, fairness of post-judgment OSC proceedings, ethical obligations of evaluator and minor’s counsel, requirements for orders appointing child custody evaluator.
OUTCOME: Affirmed.
Gender-neutral application of parentage presumptions. Where policy of statutory scheme based on continuity of child’s family relationships and integrity of marital family, may statutes be construed t ... o make biological parenthood irrelevant for paternity while determinative for maternity? Standing and joinder.
OUTCOME: Dismissed
Court of Appeal lacked jurisdiction to consider former husband’s appeal of order issued after bifurcated trial on classification and division of community and separate interests in a partnership, whe ... re appeal was not taken from judgment dissolving the marriage. “Further Judgment†was not a separately appealable order but was merely preliminary to a final order characterizing, valuing, and dividing all marital assets, and former husband failed to obtain certificate of probable cause from family law court. (Respondent on appeal)
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