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Spring Seminar

How to Prepare a Custody Case:  A Practical Primer

Our Spring Program, How to Prepare a Custody Case: A Practical Primer will provide a step-by-step plan to develop a factor-based strategy designed to deliver positive outcomes for your custody clients.  The program will focus on developing a strategy that positions your clients for the many challenges that confront them in the litigation process, including dealing with the opposing party, the court, the Attorney for the Child, the Forensic Evaluator, and the children whose best interests hang in the balance.  We will provide practical checklists that you can immediately put to good use in your practice!  We will also focus on two of the most challenging issues that have become so common in contested custody cases: (1) how to cope with diagnosed mental disorders and (2) how to deal with allegations of parental alienation that seem to dominate custody litigation in the present era. 

Agenda

Program Agenda

  • Forming a Factor-Based Strategy
  • Preparing the Client for the Litigation Process
  • Dealing with the 900 Pound Gorillas:
    • Gorilla # 1: Mental Disorder Diagnoses
    • Gorilla # 2: Parental Alienation Allegations

Available Seminar Dates

 
 
 
 
 
 

Faculty

Timothy Tippins Esq.

Timothy M. Tippins, Esq. is an adjunct professor at Albany Law School and serves on the faculty of the American Academy of Forensic Psychology and on the Affiliate Postdoctoral Forensic Faculty at St. John’s University. He has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Forensic Psychology at Siena College. He is a private practitioner who has engaged in matrimonial and family law practice since 1975 and devotes his practice exclusively to serving as trial counsel and consultant to other family law practitioners on a nationwide basis, with special emphasis on the presentation and cross-examination of expert mental health testimony. Tippins has served in all major professional leadership positions in the New York family law community, including President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers - New York Chapter, Chair of the NYSBA Family Law Section, and Chair of the NYSBA Task Force on Family Law. Tippins is a regular feature columnist for the New York Law Journal and is the author of the multi-volume treatise New York Matrimonial Law & Practice (West Publishing).

Company Name: MatLaw Systems Corp.
E-mail: tmtippins@matlaw.com