Practice Under the California Family Code: Dissolution, Legal Separation, Nullity

Published March 2026

The newest addition to this high-use title, Chapter 27, Domestic Violence, received the 2026 Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA) Award of Outstanding Achievement in the Best Publications category. The award recognizes the work behind the chapter, which took multiple years to develop and brought together a team of attorneys, judges, appellate justices and appellate practitioners who worked directly with domestic violence litigants. The result is a comprehensive and practical chapter that walks lawyers through domestic violence matters from the first client meeting to requests for emergency orders and through trial, enforcement and later modification.

Gain a complete command of everything needed to handle dissolution, legal separation, nullity, and parentage actions from both judicial and attorney perspectives—kept current with the latest cases, legislation, and court rules. The highlights formerly included in a companion pamphlet have now been integrated into the text.

• Petitioning and responding
• Handling evidentiary issues and presentations
• Obtaining temporary and longer orders
  • Child custody, visitation, and parentage
  • Child and spousal support
  • Attorney fees/costs; and DVPA related
• Modifying and enforcing orders
• Complying with mandatory disclosure and discovery rules
• Characterizing, valuing, and dividing property
• Addressing bankruptcy, immigration, psychological, and ethical issues in family law cases