Family Law
Family Law News Issue 3, 2020, Volume 42, No. 3
Content
- Best Practices for Responding to a Request for Production of Documents
- Children Supporting Themselves? How Sparring Parties in Support Disputes Seek to Use the Family Code to Bypass Trust Protections for Beneficiaries
- Family Law News Editorial Team
- Family Law Section Executive Committee
- Legislative Liaisons and Designated Recipients of Legislation
- Message from the Chair
- Message from the Editor
- Pandemic Provisions - Do Force Majeure Clauses Have a Place in Custody and Visitation Agreements?
- Table of Contents
- The Few and Varying Published Decisions on the Presumption of Undue Influence
- What's Mine Is Mine, What's Ours Is Ours, and What's Yours Is Ours: the Extension of Watts Charges to Separate Property
- Whither the Spousal Privilege
- Protecting Your Client's Right to Recover Attorney Fees/Costs
Protecting Your Client’s Right to Recover Attorney Fees/Costs
Robert R. Walmsley
Robert R. Walmsley is a partner of the law firm Jarrette & Walmsley, LLP, with its principal office in Los Olivos, California. Mr. Walmsley has been practicing law in the area of family law for over 32 years. His practice incorporates all aspects of family law, including assisted reproduction, adoptions, guardianship, and termination of parental rights. The firm handles both national and international cases. The firm, and Mr. Walmsley in particular, also handle appellate cases and, in fact, have over 17 published cases.
Pre-Judgment and Appellate Fee/Costs Requests
Family law practitioners often confine themselves to the Family Code as their guiding source. And why not? After all, short of some scattered Civil Procedure sections, e.g. the Discovery Act, and family law rules of court, the Family Code is every practitioner’s Bible. However, family law practitioners who confine themselves to the Family Code could find themselves in a trap for the unwary.