Florida Family Law Trial Notebook

Description

Courtroom Answers for Florida Family Lawyers

Designed for courtroom use, the Notebook addresses the full range of issues likely to arise in the courtroom:

• Pre-Trial
• Course and Conduct of Trial
• Documentary Evidence
• Other Physical Proof
• Witness Competence and Disqualification
• Witness Examination Issues
• Witness Questioning and Answering
• Science, Opinion, and Experts
• Alternatives to Physical and Testimonial Proof
• Privileges
• Hearsay
• Hearsay Exceptions: Declarant Unavailable
• Hearsay Exceptions: Declarant Available
• Character and Habit
• Relevance and Materiality
• Other Rules Governing both Physical and Testimonial Proof
• Substantive Family Law
• Family Law Rules

Quickly find arguments and objections on the eve of trial, in court or during a recess.  Florida Family Law Trial Notebook is a quick and easy reference to the law regarding every major substantive issue in marital and family law cases.  Florida Family Law Rules of Procedure are summarized in plain English, complete with case annotations.  Separate chapters are devoted to evidentiary issues most commonly encountered in marital law, including documentary evidence, trial testimony, witnesses, and hearsay.

Forty-five forms are provided in print and digitally to help speed your trial preparation. The collection contains

• Task checklist
• Motions to produce
• Motion to compel
• Motions for evaluation and examination
• Motion in limine
• Expert witness interrogatories
• Proof chart
• Admissibility of expert witness testimony
• And more

Florida Family Law Trial Notebook is the single source for answers to issues arising in family court. Its tabbed pages and unique organization help you solve the most difficult evidence, procedure, and substantive law questions. And, each year you receive concise summaries of important family law decisions decided by the appellate courts. Never miss out on changes in the law.

REVISION 17 HIGHLIGHTS

Quickly find answers to evidentiary and substantive law questions whether you are in the office or the courtroom with Florida Family Law Trial Notebook.

CHAPTER 17 SUBSTANTIVE FAMILY LAW
This extensive digest of Florida family law cases has been expanded with more than 180 summaries of noteworthy Florida cases on dozens of topics including agreements, alimony, appeals, attorneys’ fees, child support, parental responsibility, equitable distribution, orders of protection, and more.

Also included are the amendments to Chapter 61.08, Florida Statutes, which, among other
changes, eliminate permanent alimony and set parameters for the duration and amount of alimony
that may be awarded.

CHAPTER 18 FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE

These rules have been updated to reflect recent amendments:

• 12.280 General Provisions Governing Discovery
• 12.285 Mandatory Disclosure
• 12.340 Interrogatories
• 12.530 Motions for New Trial and Re-Hearing; Amendments of Judgments

TRIAL EVIDENCE (CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 16)

Summaries of noteworthy cases have been added on the best evidence rule, authentication, qualification of expert witnesses, authoritative literature, hearsay, and other crimes, wrongs, and
acts.

AND MORE!

ABBREVIATED TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1 PRE-TRIAL
CHAPTER 2 COURSE AND CONDUCT OF TRIAL
CHAPTER 3 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
CHAPTER 4 OTHER PHYSICAL PROOF
CHAPTER 5 WITNESS COMPETENCE AND DISQUALIFICATION
CHAPTER 6 WITNESS EXAMINATION: BASIC ISSUES
CHAPTER 7 WITNESS QUESTIONING AND ANSWERING
CHAPTER 8 SCIENCE, OPINION AND EXPERTS
CHAPTER 9 ALTERNATIVES TO PHYSICAL AND TESTIMONIAL PROOF
CHAPTER 10 PRIVILEGES
CHAPTER 11 HEARSAY BASICS
CHAPTER 12 HEARSAY EXCEPTIONS: DECLARANT UNAVAILABLE
CHAPTER 13 HEARSAY EXCEPTIONS: DECLARANT AVAILABLE
CHAPTER 14 CHARACTER AND HABIT
CHAPTER 15 RELEVANCE AND MATERIALITY
CHAPTER 16 OTHER RULES GOVERNING BOTH PHYSICAL AND TESTIMONIAL PROOF
CHAPTER 17 SUBSTANTIVE FAMILY LAW
CHAPTER 18 FLORIDA FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thomas R. Eineman was a James B. Angell Scholar at the University of Michigan and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with high Distinction in 1979. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, in 1985. Mr. Eineman is Board Certified in Marital and Family Law by The Florida Bar. He is a member of The Florida Bar, the State Bar of Michigan, the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, the American Bar Association, the Hernando County Bar Association, and the Citrus County Bar Association. He previously served on the Marital and Family Law Certification Committee of The Florida Bar and was a member of the Steering Committee for The Florida Bar’s publication “Florida Dissolution of Marriage,” Sixth Edition. Mr. Eineman is “AV” rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Eineman was in private practice for 23 years before becoming a Circuit Court Judge for the Fifth Judicial Circuit in the State of Florida in 2014.