Articles and Materials on a Variety of Family Law Topics:

The following links are to some of the published Nevada family law articles and other publications that the attorneys of the Willick Law Group have written. Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) materials from some of the courses that the attorneys of the Willick Law Group have taught or presented can be found using the button below.

2009

• The Basics of Family Law Jurisdiction (Nevada Lawyer, 2012)

2008

• Love Me Love My Dog (Nevada Lawyer, 2008, by Mandy McKellar)
• The Basics of Jurisdiction: A Remedial Course, The Writ (Washoe County Bar in Sept. & Nov. 2008)
• Military Retirement Benefits (Dividing Pensions and Other Employee Benefits in California Divorces; 2008)

2007

• What Almost Happened to Child Support in Nevada, and Why We Still Have to Fix It  (Nevada Lawyer, June, 2007)
• In Search of A Coherent Theoretical Model for Alimony (Nevada Lawyer, April, 2007)
• How Low Does the Bar Go (Nevada Lawyer, Letter to the Editor, April, 2007)
• Family Law and Contingency Fees; Time to Reconsider? (Nevada Lawyer, March, 2007)

2006

• Domestic Torts in Nevada (Nevada Lawyer, August, 2006)
• Nevada has Effectively Lowered Child Support Across the Board (Nevada Family Law Rep. 2006)
• Editorial Preface to Revisions to Revised Nevada Rules of Professional Conduct (Nevada Civil Practice Manual; June 2006)
• Alimony at Twilight: Spousal Support When a Party is at or Near Retirement Age (Aspen, CO 2006)

2005

• The Thrift Savings Plan (ABA Family Law Section, Fall 2005)

2004

• International Kidnapping and the Hague Convention: A Short Introduction (Communique, May 2004)

2002

• Ten Commonly Missed Aspects of Community Property Valuation and Distribution (Clark County Bar Association Communique, June, 2002)
• Intolerable Unethical Behavior (Nevada Lawyer, Letter to the Editor, 2002)

2001

• Dividing Civil Service Retirement Benefits In Divorce (Teleclass with Carol Ann Wilson, CFP)
• How Cohabitation Affects Divorce Settlements (Teleclass with Carol Ann Wilson, CFP)

 1990s

• A Lawyer’s Guide to Military Retirement and Benefits in Divorce (ABA 1998)
• Military Retirement Benefit Standard Clauses, in 18 Family Advocate No. 1 (Summer 1995; Family Law Clauses: The Financial Case)
• Partition of Omitted Assets After Amie: Nevada Comes (Almost) Full Circle, (Spring 1992)
• A Matter of Interest: Collection of Full Arrearages on Nevada Judgments, (State Bar of Nevada, 1990)
• Pension and Profit Sharing Plans, in Valuation of Marital Property (State Bar of Nevada, 1990)

1980s

• Res Judicata in Nevada Divorce: An Invitation to Fraud (Spring 1989)
• The Nevada Former Military Spouses Protection Act: Partition of Military Retirement Benefits Omitted from Prior Decrees of Divorce (Spring 1987)
• Professional Malpractice and the Unauthorized Practice of Professions: Some Legal and Ethical Aspects of the Use of Computers as Decision-Aids (Rutgers Computer and Tech Law Journal; 1986)
• Constitutional Law and Artificial Intelligence: The Potential Legal Recognition of Computers as Persons, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (1985)
• Artificial Intelligence: Some Legal Approaches and Implications, (AI Mag. Summer 1983)

Summaries of All Major Nevada Family Law Cases Issued from 1865 to 2006:

• The Marren Page case list
• Marren Page Update (NFLR Aug. 2006)

The lawyers of the Willick Law Group, and particularly Mr. Willick, are frequently asked to draft “Friend of the Court,” or Amicus, Briefs for the Nevada Supreme Court on family law topics on behalf of the State Bar of Nevada Family Law Section. We draft these briefs either alone or in conjunction with other attorneys. Below are some of those briefs, on a number of topics.

• Teuton State Bar Amicus Brief, August, 2009 (constitutional question of duration of appointment of family court judge)
• Rivero State Bar Amicus Brief, May, 2009 (Custody definitions, and child support in joint-but-unequal custody cases)
• Motion to File Errata to Rivero Brief
• Exhibits to Rivero Brief
• Rivero v. Rivero Opinion (Rivero II), 125 Nev. 410, 216 P.3d 213 (2009) (Rivero II, re-defining joint custody, and its role in setting child support)
• Hedlund State Bar Amicus Brief, December, 2008 (what to do with NRS 125.155; PERS retirement case)
• Ogawa State Bar Amicus Brief, December, 2007 (application of Hague Convention to custody case involving Japan)

Hague Convention Materials

From our series of articles and lectures relating to International Kidnaping and the Hague Convention designed to provide remedies for such abductions, both a full article with appropriate citations (from a CLE taught at the Legal Education Institute, at Aspen, Colorado, in 2004, with its Appendix), and a brief summary of the material (published in the Communique, a publication of the Clark County Bar Association, in May, 2004):

• International Kidnaping Response for Fun and Profit: Getting the Kids Home & Making the Bad Guys Pay
• Appendix to International Kidnaping
• International Kidnapping and the Hague Convention: A Short Introduction
• Hague Convention Procedural Steps Flow Chart
• Hague Convention Legal Test Flow Chart

Council Of Community Property States

The following are some of the Willick Law Group’s continuing series of writings on community property for the annual Symposiums conducted by the Council of Community Property States:

Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, 2012: Allocation of Debt at Divorce (presented by Richard Crane) New Orleans, Louisiana, 2011: Characterization Valuation and Division of Employment – Related Benefits Seattle, Washington, 2010: Valuation and Disposition Strategies in a Changing Economy Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2009: Back to Basics: Overview of Community Property Las Vegas, Nevada 2007: Inter-relation of Alimony Awards with Community Property Phoenix, Arizona, 2006: Management of Joint, Common and Community Assets During Marriage and During a Divorce Proceeding Fort Worth, Texas, 2005: Disproportionate Division of Community Property Madison, Wisconsin, 2004: Divorce and the Family Owned Business: Practical Consideration of Community Property States Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, 2003: Everything You Wanted to Know About Retirement Benefits But Were Afraid to Ask New Orleans, Louisiana, 2002: Matrimonial Agreements: Requirements for Validity Las Vegas, Nevada 1998: What Do You Do When They Don’t Say “I Do”?  Cohabitation Relationships and Community Property Phoenix, Arizona, 1997: Division of Debt and Community Property in Nevada: Where Will the Money Go? Community Debt Issues & Pendente Lite Orders in Community Property States

The following two articles from the Nevada Family Law Reporter are older, but we are informed they are still referenced by practitioners and parties:

From Spring, 1992: Partition of Omitted Assets after Amie: Nevada Comes (Almost) Full Circle From Spring, 1989: Res Judicata in Nevada Divorce Law: An Invitation to Fraud

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