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Address your clients’ needs and avoid malpractice by knowing how family law and estate planning rules intersect at critical points in your clients’ lives.

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.

Correctly drafting your MSAs will be easy and efficient with this comprehensive guide that also covers premarital, marital (“postnuptial”), and nonmarital cohabitation agreements.

Successfully obtain all the information needed to divide community property, confirm separate property, determine support, and claim attorney fees and costs.

Get the best results for your client in a family law support case with step-by-step guidance, time-saving tips, and sample forms in this affordable, in-depth guide.

Get the information you need at all stages of a custody case, taking into account the changing needs and evolving nature of families.

Provides the essentials of dependency law, and covers all stages of a case, as well as information specific to the representation of children, parents, de facto parents and counties.

Learn from the experts on both sides of this critical area of law. Obtain powerful judgments—and then collect on them! Or discover effective defense strategies and how to respond to a judgment. Understand the traps, tricks, and regulations of collections practice.

Written by specialists using a task-oriented approach, this book guides you confidently through California and applicable federal law.

Get the book you need to accurately calculate, track, and comply with California and federal employee leave entitlements. Confidently advise employees or employers on any leave-related question, including litigating leave law claims. Make sure your clients are in compliance with all applicable regulations.

Master the transfer of ownership interests due to death, disability, retirement, or other contingencies.

Comprehensive, in-depth coverage (including forms) of probate practice and procedures, summary probate proceedings, and transfers outside of probate.

Get the most current, detailed coverage available on issues pertinent to today's California estate planning practice.

Protect the interests of your clients and their families with this guide covering resources and planning options.

This book is essential for litigating any trust and estate issue.

Rapidly identify frequently encountered issues in a wide array of practice areas; avoid traps that otherwise might be overlooked in evaluating a case; and decide whether a client’s issue is one you can realistically handle. Especially useful for newly admitted practitioners and those transitioning to new practice areas.

The Fiduciary Accounting Handbook demystifies preparation of Probate Code accountings—assisting the work of professionals from probate judges to trust administration attorneys. With a full chapter on court proceedings, the latest edition of the Handbook provides a step-by-step, schedule-by-schedule guide to preparing periodic accountings acceptable to the court and to affected parties.

This comprehensive resource keeps you on top by fully incorporating new law, providing in-depth treatment of electronic discovery and its special problems, and clarifying motion practice. Includes sample forms and a laminated Checklist of Objections that you can carry to depositions and court with you for easy reference.

Check out CEB's free How to Guide: How to Conduct Discovery in a Limited Civil Case.

This classic resource—relied on and kept current by attorneys and judges, and widely quoted for more than four decades—is the best way to research evidence issues before a deposition, mediation, hearing, or trial. Published jointly with the California Judges Association.

Distinguished experts cover all aspects, including federal, to make appellate and writ review clear and increase your chances of success.

Widely known as the “Crim Law Bible,” this CEB classic answers virtually every question about criminal law practice in California.

"Even after almost 20 years of practice, it is the first place I start when I have a new issue and the first place I recommend that new lawyers look to help guide them in their research and practice."

   —Sangeeta Sinha, Felony Trial Attorney, San Francisco

Succeed with this incomparable resource with numerous forms for drafting or litigating easements and related rights.

This handbook gives you the background, tools, and guidance you need in all major areas of California municipal law. Known as the definitive resource in its field, this work of over 300 municipal attorneys from the City Attorneys’ Department of the League of California Cities is published annually by CEB.

Recently cited as authority by the California Supreme Court (Wilde v City of Dunsmuir, 9 C5th 1105, 1127.).