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AFCC Fall 2023 Virtual Conference Call for Proposals
Addiction, Family Violence, and Mental Illness:
Assessing and Managing Challenges to Contemporary Co-parenting
November 1-3 and 6-7, 2023
In response to popular demand, AFCC is offering the 2023 Fall Conference in a virtual format. If you'd like to present at an AFCC conference from the comfort of your home or office, we are accepting proposals for 90-minute workshop sessions. See the Call for Proposals for complete instructions. Proposals must be submitted using the online form by the deadline on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 by midnight.
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Proposed topics may include but are not limited to:
- Interviewing Children
- Cultural Biases Regarding Addiction, Abuse, and Mental Illness
- Parenting Coordination with Complex Issues
- Parenting Plan Evaluations
- Viability of Co-parenting after Family Violence
- Parenting Capacity and Mental Illness
- Child Safety and Parental Addiction
- Step-up Parenting Plans
- Mediation
- Access to Justice
- Parent-child Contact Problems
- Family Dispute Resolution Innovations
- Innovations in Family Court Services
- Supervised Parenting Time
- Court-Involved Therapy
AFCC strongly encourages workshop proposals with more than one presenter and including presenters representing diverse perspectives. University faculty members are encouraged to involve students as co-presenters.
The deadline to submit your proposal is Wednesday, May 3, 2023 by midnight.
You will be notified of the status of your proposal by mid-June 2023.
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Webinar Corner
Chancellor & Dean David Faigman and Michael A. Saini, PhD
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023
1:00pm – 2:00pm Eastern Time (US/Canada)
Registration will close on April 17, 2023 at 9:00am Eastern Time US/Canada.
In this interactive webinar, we will consider evidentiary standards in the courts and the challenges of scientific and expert testimony. The discussion will focus initially on the need, inherent in the nature of employing scientific research in individual cases, of relying on group level data (G) to make decisions about individuals (i) in the family courts, also known as “G2i”. Associated with the challenges of “G2i,” and going beyond those challenges, there remain fundamental gaps in knowledge about how best to apply scientific evidence in the family courts. Moreover, scientific evidence runs the risk of being ignored, overestimated, or misunderstood. The discussion will help to explain the importance of G2i, differentiate between framework evidence and diagnostic evidence, consider the roles and limits of expert testimony, especially when experts are asked to apply general propositions to individual cases. The audience for the webinar includes judges, lawyers, expert witnesses, parenting plan evaluators, and other legal and mental health decisionmakers who use scientific evidence to make determinations / recommendations about parenting plans post separation and divorce.
| | Chancellor & Dean David Faigman is the John F. Digardi Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and holds an appointment as Professor in the School of Medicine (Dept. of Psychiatry) at the University of California, San Francisco. He received both his MA (Psychology) and JD from the University of Virginia. Professor Faigman clerked for the Honorable Thomas M. Reavley of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. | | | Michael A. Saini, PhD holds the endowed Factor-Inwentash Chair in Law and Social Work, and he is the Co-Director of the combined JD/MSW program at the University of Toronto. He has over 200 publications, addressing children and families’ wellbeing in systems governed by law. He is a Board Member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), Access for Parents and Children of Ontario (APCO), Family Mediation Canada (FMC), the Canadian Coalition of the Rights of the Child (CCRC) and he is also an Associate Fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. | | | |
Registration
Members: $15
Non-Members: $50
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Certificate of Attendance
Members: $15
Non-members: $20
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AFCC DE&I Series
Gender and Sex in Family Law: How to Work with a Gender Diverse Population
Rebecca Stahl, JD, LLM
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
4:00pm-6:00pm Eastern Time US/Canada
Registration closes April 11, 2023 at 9:00am Eastern Time US/Canada.
This session will explore how cisgender heteronormative structures have permeated family law, how these norms are shifting, the current language we use to describe transgender and nonbinary folks, and how to use this information to be a more trauma-responsive professional in family court. The workshop will address how we are always learning and what it means to continue to learn as culture shifts around issues baked into the family law system since its beginning.
This webinar is free to attend, but you must register in advance to receive the webinar link.
| | Rebecca M. Stahl, JD, LLM is the former Staff Director of the Sayra and Neil Meyerhoff Center for Families, Children and the Courts at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Rebecca previously represented children in child welfare cases in Los Angeles County and Tucson, Arizona. Rebecca has presented at a variety of international conferences focused on children’s rights and family law on topics ranging from the role of lawyers for children to trauma. Rebecca coauthored, Representing Children in Dependency and Family Law: Beyond the Law, a book regarding the psychological issues lawyers for children need to understand to better represent their child clients and has published articles on the role of children’s representation, including a recent one on trauma, published in October 2020 in the Family Court Review. | | | |
AFCC-AAML Joint Conference
Advanced Issues in Child Custody: Evaluation, Litigation, and Settlement
Capital Hilton
Washington, DC
September 28-30, 2023
The Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers are excited to be hosting their first completely in-person joint conference in four years! Leading family law experts will offer extended institutes and breakout sessions that address the most challenging issues faced by lawyers, judges, psychologists, custody evaluators, parenting coordinators, mediators, therapists, arbitrators, educators, and others.
| | Diane Goodman, AFCC member from California has been appointed a judge in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Judge Goodman was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in order to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Susan Lopez-Giss. Prior to her appointment, Diana worked as an attorney at her private practice, The Law and Mediation Office of Diane M. Goodman, APC. Congratulations, Diane! | | |
January eNews Technical Difficulties
During the first few weeks in January, AFCC members may not have been receiving our newsletters due to an issue with our emailing server. This issue has been resolved, but we encourage you to check out the January eNews which you may have missed due to this issue.
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AFCC eNEWS
The AFCC eNEWS is the monthly e-newsletter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. The eNEWS provides up-to-date information for professionals including practice tips, international news, and the latest initiatives in family law and conflict resolution. The AFCC eNEWS is provided at no charge to you; anyone can subscribe. Subscribe here.
AFCC members are free to share eNEWS content.
EDITOR:
Ann Ordway, JD, PhD
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Patrick Sommer
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