by Neil Forester | Oct 17, 2022 | Insights, News & Events
It’s National Mediation Week and a great time to share my recent MCLE recording with colleagues Katie Burke and Christine Whalen – we could have gone on for hours. The American Bar Association recognizes the third week in October as Mediation Week to educate the...
by Neil Forester | Sep 23, 2022 | Insights
A trend that has been gaining traction since before the COVID crisis fundamentally changed the legal landscape may be gaining further ground in the realities of families around the country. The center of that trend is the unsung glue of many American family units, a...
by Neil Forester | Aug 11, 2022 | Insights
Happy Holidays Everyone! Even though we sit here (mostly at home) mired in the heat of Sacramento in August (for me), the holiday season will be here before we know it. And for those of us involved in parenting disputes, how those holidays will be spent is a fairly...
by Neil Forester | Jul 12, 2022 | Insights
There are many good things that a premarital agreement can accomplish for a soon-to-be-married couple. They can better define expectations for your financial relationship (who pays for what and how). They can solidify the character of existing assets like homes and...
by Neil Forester | Apr 7, 2022 | Insights, News & Events
After practicing Family Law for the better part of two decades, I had a pretty well-developed confidence in my abilities and experience as a negotiator and court advocate. When I decided to move my practice more decidedly into the ADR space back in 2020, that...
by Neil Forester | Jul 21, 2020 | Insights
Family law litigation has always felt to me like a square peg/round hole situation, at least as far as trying to shoehorn divorce cases into our civil court construct. As I was pondering this particular problem the other day, I began to think that it was...