Family Law
Family Law News 2016, Issue 2, Volume 38, No. 2
Content
- 2015 Case Highlights: the Year in Review
- Family Law News Editorial Team
- Family Law Section Executive Committee
- From Our Readers
- Holding Out as My Own
- Legislative Liaisons and Designated Recipients of Legislation
- MCLE Self-study Article: Demystifying Marriage of Bonvino: What it Holds and What it Means
- Message from the Editor
- Military Pension Division: Back Payments
- Table of Contents
- The Death of Litigation May Provide for the Life of the Lawyer
- Message from the Chair
Message from the Chair
Vanessa Kirker Wright
Our Readers’ attention is urgently requested!
As I write, there is an important controversy brewing in the Legislature that could spell the elimination of the Sections within the next two or three years.
First, a bit of history. By statute, the Sections are required to be "self-funding." That means that none of your "basic bar dues" (about $430 these days) is used to fund the Sections’ work. The Sections charge $95 a member, and we "earn" money by putting on low-cost educational seminars, self-study MCLE articles, and ads in our Family Law News. The Family Law Section has about 4,000 members. The Sections are charged when we use the State Bar staff and contractors to help us organize our educational seminars (on-line and in-person), and set up our meetings, and help us create our fabulous scholarly publications and for some capital costs. That charge is called our "allocation." It is about $55 per member at this point.