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 16 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.
NEW WITH THIS EDITION
CHAPTER 17 SUBSTANTIVE FAMILY LAW
This extensive digest of Florida family law cases has been expanded with more than 200 summaries of noteworthy Florida cases on dozens of topics including alimony, appeals, attorneys’ fees, child support, parental responsibility, equitable distribution, paternity, and more.
CHAPTER 18 FAMILY LAW RULES OF PROCEDURE
Text of these rules is revised to reflect recent amendments:
• 12.310 Depositions Upon Oral Examination
• 12.351 Production of Documents and Things Without Deposition
• 12.407 Testimony and Attendance of Minor Child
• 12.410 Subpoena
• 12.430 Demand for Jury Trial; Waiver
• 12.440 Setting Action for Trial
• 12.740 Family Mediation
DIGITAL ACCESS
These forms have been updated:
• Form 10 Motion for Independent Medical Examination
• Form 12 Notice to Produce at Deposition/Trial
• Form 15 Subpoena Duces Tecum Without Deposition
• Form 18 Motion to Compel Production of Summaries
• Form 26 Unilateral Pre-Trial Stipulation
• Form 27 Notice of Service of Witness and Expert Witness Interrogatories
• Form 33 Admissibility of Expert Witness Testimony
• Form 41 Motion to Amend Pleadings
TRIAL EVIDENCE
Statutory amendments and noteworthy cases have been added to:
• 4.1.1 Demonstrative Evidence (F.S. §90.956)
• 9.1.5 Judicial Notice of Information from Web Mapping Services, Global Satellite Imaging Sties, or Internet Mapping Tools (F.S. §90.2035)
• 10.1 Psychotherapist-Patient Privilege (F.S. §90.503)
• 13.6 Business Records (F.S. §90.803(6)(a))
• 13.23 Child Victim (F.S. §90.803(23))
• 15.1 Irrelevant (F.S. §90.401)
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.
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