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?
- Protecting Your Client's Right to Recover Attorney Fees/Costs
- 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
- Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Message from the Chair………………………………………………………………………………………………………..3
Message from the Editor……………………………………………………………………………………………………..4
What’s Mine Is Mine, What’s Ours Is Ours, and What’s Yours Is Ours: The Extension of Watts Charges To Separate Property…………………………………………………………………………….6
By Chandra Moss, CFLS
Watts charges may be levied against a party for living in his or her separate property where the community has partial interest due to the Moore/Mardsen rule, according to the opinion in In re Marriage of Mohler.
Protecting Your Client’s Right to Recover Attorney Fees/Costs……………………………………..9
By Robert R. Walmsley
Look to the rules of court when assessing and preparing the issue of attorney fees and costs, in addition to the commonly used Family Code and Code of Civil Procedure sections.