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, and Continuing Legal Education (“CLE”) materials from some of the courses that the attorneys of the Willick Law Group have taught or presented.
Miscellaneous articles and materials on a variety of topics:
2020
- Kogod Contradictions, Practical Problems, and Required Statutory Fixes (Part Two) (Nevada Family Law Report, Spring/Summer 2020)
2019
- Kogod Contradictions, Practical Problems, and Required Statutory Fixes (Part One) (Nevada Family Law Report, Fall 2019/Winter 2020)
- Family Law Specialty Tools (Originally published in the COMMUNIQUÉ, the official publication of the Clark County Bar Association, March 2020)
- Five Things to Know About Nevada’s Changing CLE Rules (Originally published in the COMMUNIQUÉ, the official publication of the Clark County Bar Association, December 2019) (Full legal note posted at https://www.willicklawgroup.com/vol-68-the-past-present-and-future-of-cle-in-nevada/)
- A Covenant with Death and an Agreement with Hell (Advanced Family Law, 2019)
- Preparing to Sail in Unchartered Waters: Family Law Appeals (CLE at Sea, October 2019)
- Making Plans For QDROs – Power Point (CLE, March 2019)
- Special Considerations For Government Pension Plans – Power Point (CLE, March 2019)
2018
- Critical Issues in Federal and State Retirement Benefits (CLE, June 2018)
- Military Divorce Changes You Need to Know Now (CLE, January 2018)
2017
- Death by PERS: Tips and Traps of PERS Retirement Division and Survivorship Options (CLE, December 2017)
- Cohabitation and Alimony Payments: Understand the Laws in Nevada (CLE, March 2017)
2016
- Trends In Pre-Marital, Postnuptial, and Separation Agreements (CLE, December 2016)
- Post-Trial Materials: The Basics of Family Court Trial Procedures (CLE, November 2016)
- Lawyer Liability in QDRO Cases (Nevada Family Law Report, Fall 2016)
- Military Retirement Benefits Primer (Communique November 2016)
- The UCCJEA In a Nutshell (CLE, February 2, 2016)
- The Danger of Davidson To Pension Divisions (Nevada Lawyer, December 2016)
- Top QDRO Mistakes Attorneys Make — and How to Avoid Them! (CLE, December 2016)
2015
- Partition Actions What Every Nevada Divorce Lawyer Needs To Know (CLE, December 3, 2015)
- Retirement Benefits for Legal Professionals: A Very Brief Primer (CLE, October 9, 2015)
- Final Copy of “A Universal Approach to Alimony: How Alimony Should Be Calculated and Why” as Printed in the AAML Journal (March, 2015)
2013
- An Alimony Manifesto: How Alimony Should Be Calculated, and Why (CLE, Dec. 2013)
- Nevada Child Custody: A Primer (CLE, July 12, 2013)
- Retirement Plan Division: What Every Nevada Divorce Lawyer Needs to Know (CLE, Ely, Mar., 2013)
- Exhibits to Retirement Plan Division CLE
- The Basics of Property Division in Nevada (CLE, November 2013)
2012
- Special Issues in Military Divorce (November 13, 2012)
- Family Law Appeals: What Every Family Law Attorney Needs to Know (CLE, October 13, 2012)
- Liens, Judgments, Enforcements: Adjudicating an Attorney’s Lien After Argentena (CLE, September 12, 2012)
- Securing Your Office (Spring 2012)
- Quotations extracts from Shakespeare and the Law (CLE, Las Vegas, Feb. 17, 2012)
- Shakespeare limited glossary for CLE
- Effects on Custody after Fleeing Domestic Violence (CLE Outline, Las Vegas, Feb. 23, 2012)
- The Basics of Family Law Jurisdiction (CLE, October 2012)
- Legal Standards for Mental Health Professional Outsourced Service Providers (CLE, September 2012)
2011
- The Evolving Concept of Marriage and Coming Convergence of Marital and Non-Marital Property and Support Law (Nevada Lawyer, May, 2011)
- The Evolving Concept of Marriage and Coming Convergence of Marital and Non-Marital Property and Support Law (scanned copy as published, Nevada Lawyer, May, 2011)
- Pre-nups and Post-nups (CLE, June 2011)
- Cohabitation, Tacking, and Property Division (CLE, February 2011)
2010
- Enforcement of Judgments: Appeals Stays & Liens (Advanced CLE, Las Vegas, December, 2010)
- Work/Life Balance (Nevada Lawyer, December 2010)
- Getting Paid Through an Attorney’s Lien After Argentena (23 Nev. Fam. L. Rep., Winter, 2010)
- Civil Service Retirement and Divorce (CLE, September 2010)
- The Actual Lessons and Implications of Carmona – and Why Every Divorce Lawyer in the Western United States Should Be Hoping I Prevail on Rehearing, 23 Nev. Fam. L. Rep., Winter, 2010, at 6.
- Why the Nevada Welfare Division is Calculating Interest and Penalties Incorrectly, and How It Injures Nevada Litigants, 23 Nev. Fam. L. Rep., Winter, 2010
- How Many Days Are in a Week and How to Measure Time (23 Nev. Fam. L. Rep., Fall, 2010) (proper application of the Rivero II Opinion)
- Sham Divorces Civil Rights and Family Law Experts (23 Nev. Fam. L. Rep., Spring, 2010)
- Dividing Civil Service Retirement Benefits (Outline 2010)
2009
- Alphabet Soup (CLE, Las Vegas, 2009)
- ERISA and QDROs: Some Current Issues and Concerns (CLE, June 2009)
- Kennedy v. Dupont Savings: The Supreme Court Kills Two Conflicts With One Decision (CLE Telephone Seminar, March 2009)
2008
- Love Me Love My Dog (Nevada Lawyer, 2008, by Mandy McKellar)
- Child Custody Jurisdiction (CLE, Las Vegas, 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)
- Hitting the Jackpot in Pension Cases: Secrets to Getting the Retirement Share Your Client Deserves (CLE, Las Vegas, 2007)
2006
- Domestic Torts in Nevada (Nevada Lawyer, August, 2006)
- Ethics 2000 (CLE, Ely, 2006)
- Alimony at Twilight: Spousal Support When a Party is at or Near Retirement Age (Aspen, CO 2006)
2004
- Nevada Legal Ethics (CLE, Ethics 2000 Committee Recap, Las Vegas, 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
- A Matter of Interest: Collection of Full Arrearages on Nevada Judgments (CLE, Tonopah, 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)
Summaries of All Major Nevada Family Law Cases Issued from 1865 to 2006:
- The Marren Page case list
- Marren Page Update (NFLR Aug. 2006)
From a CLE on Nevada Family Law Jurisdiction (Nov. 1, 2012):
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):
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
From Advanced Family Law – Pensions in Nevada Divorce Law (full day CLE taught in Las Vegas on October 15, 2004):
- An Introduction to Pensions in Nevada Divorce Cases
- Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) Benefits
- Divorcing the Military and Severing the Civil Service – How to Attack and Defend
- Exhibits to Divorcing the Military and Severing the Civil Service
- ERISA, REA, and the Wacky World of QDROs
- Disability, Death and Related Topics of Cheer – Part One – Death
- Disability, Death and Related Topics of Cheer – Part Two – Disability
- Exhibits to Death and Related Topics of Cheer
- Practice and Procedure – What to Do With All of This Fun Stuff
- Partition Actions and Fraud Upon the Court
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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