Family Law
Family Law News 2016, Issue 4, Volume 38, No. 4
Content
- Term Life Insurance Since In re Marriage of Burwell (2013)
- How to Divide Interests in Real Property When the Property is Not Community
- Family Law Section Executive Committee
- Legislative Liaisons and Designated Recipients of Legislation
- Factors for Move-Away Custody Disputes
- Family Law News Editorial Team
- Message from the Editor
- Message from the Chair
- Technology Corner
- Retraining Family Lawyers to Support Mediating Clients
- Table of Contents
- When the Worst Happens, What Then?
- Recent Developments in California Domestic Violence Case Law
Term Life Insurance Since In Re Marriage of Burwell (2013)
R. Ann Fallon
Ann Fallon has practiced law for 31 years and is a frequent writer and contributor on employment and retirement benefits issues. She has been a Certified Family Law Specialist since 1997 and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She serves as the Administrative Chair of the QDRONES, who are all professional QDRO preparers. She received the 2015 Fellow of the Year Award from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Northern California Chapter. She received the 2009 Hall of Fame Award from the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists, and received the Honored Fellow Award from the Northern California chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 2008. She writes for Continuing Education at the Bar and received the Spirit of CEB writer’s award for Family Law in 2007.
Advice to Clientâ"Regarding Your Term Life Insurance …"
1. Advice to Client: Disclose Term Life Insurance Policies: The Schedule of Assets and Debts, Judicial Council Form FL-142 at page 2 Section 10 is misleading according to the Appellate court in Burwell because it limits disclosure to LIFE INSURANCE with cash surrender or loan value. Mr. Burwell’s attorney explained to the court that TERM life insurance has no valueâwhich is why Mr. Burwell did not disclose his $1 million term life insurance policy. The Burwell court was not impressed. It asked, rhetorically, "which is more authoritative, the disclosure statute or the Judicial Council form?" See In re Marriage of Burwell, 164 Cal.Rptr.3d 702 (2013).