California Lawyers Association

 

Family Law Section:

 

Admitting Evidence in Family Court: Make Your Record in Short-cause Hearings and Trials

 

Description:

 

 Elkins v. Superior Court (2007) confirmed that the same general rules that govern other civil trials apply in full force in family law trials, including the hearsay rule. That holding did not explicitly encompass family law and motion hearings. 
Elkins gave rise to Family Code § 217, setting in place obligations for practitioners and the Court for the receipt of live testimony in family court law and motion hearings and trials. In March 2018, the Court of Appeal confirmed in Marriage of Swain that parties have a right to confront and cross-examine witnesses during family court law and motion hearings. 
We will teach you the procedural rules that practitioners and the Court must know in order to ensure that we comply with dictates of Elkins and its progeny

 

Faculty:

 

Jackie Flynn

Jackie Flynn has been practicing family law exclusively since being admitted to the bar in December 2014, and began working at Robbins Family Law in the summer of 2015. Her areas of focus include divorce, child and spousal support, asset division, child custody and visitation, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.
Ms. Flynn earned her J.D. from Golden Gate University, School of Law in May 2014. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology in 2011 from Santa Clara University. Ms. Flynn discovered her passion for family law by taking cases pro bono through the San Francisco Bar Association’s Justice & Diversity Center. 
Ms. Flynn is a San Francisco native.

 

Liat Sadler

Liat Sadler is a family law practitioner in San Francisco. She earned her Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan with honors and her Master’s degree from the London School of Economics. She graduated cum laude from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.  
After graduating from law school, she returned to the Bay area and opened her San Francisco family law office. Between 2013 and 2015, she served on the Executive Committee of the Family Law Section of the Bar Association of San Francisco, serving as the committee’s Education Chair. She has taught family law trial lawyers about family law appeals for the Bar Association of San Francisco and the State Bar of California.
Ms. Sadler is on the Board of Trustees of Congregation Sherith Israel in San Francisco. 

Kelly Robbins, Moderator

 

Cost: 

$55.00

 

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