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Course Details

Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

  • work Practice Area

    Family Law

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Wednesday, September 11, 2019

  • schedule Time

    1:00 PM E.T.

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


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$197.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

CLE
ALL

This CLE course will provide an advanced course on the role of expert testimony in divorce litigation. Such testimony can address multiple issues (financial, behavioral, etc.), and the divorce litigator must be able to manage the expert process through discovery, pretrial motions, and trial testimony.

Faculty

Kirk C. Stange
Founding Partner
Stange Law Firm, PC

Mr. Stange is a founding partner of Stange Law Firm, PC, a multi-state family law firm with offices in Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Texas, and Kentucky. Through his dedication to clients and their family law cases, Mr. Stange has been recognized for numerous awards including Super Lawyers, Missouri & Kansas Super Lawyers Honoree for Family Law, 2015 to present (The final published Super Lawyers list represents no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state); and Missouri Lawyers Media, The POWER List Top 30 for Family Law, since 2020. He is the author of a chapter in a book through Thomson Reuters (Aspatore Publishing) titled, Strategies for Military Family Law: Leading Lawyers on Navigating Family Law in the Armed Forces (Inside the Minds). Mr. Stange released a full-length book through Thomson Reuters (Aspatore Publishing) titled, Prenuptial Agreements Line by Line. He authored another chapter in a book through Thomson Reuters (Aspatore Published) titled, Strategies for Illinois Family Law: Leading Lawyers on Leveraging Alternative Dispute Resolution, Negotiating Alimony and Child Support, and Managing Client Expectations (Inside the Minds). Mr. Stange is licensed in Missouri, Illinois, and Kansas; and before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. He earned his J.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Jillian A. Wood
Managing Partner
Stange Law Firm, PC

Ms. Wood has extensive experience in family law matters, including, divorce, child custody, child support, guardianship, adoption, paternity, and other domestic relation matters including mediation. She has been selected by Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star in Illinois since 2015 and in Missouri/Kansas since 2018.  She is licensed to practice law in the States of Missouri, Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma. 

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Description

Expert testimony is a crucial part of litigation, and divorce litigation is no exception. With Daubert almost universally adopted in state courts (including Florida's adoption in May 2019), divorce trial lawyers must master the nuances of using, attempting to introduce, and challenging expert testimony.

Divorce disputes involve many subjects supported by expert testimony. Financial and valuation experts are often essential not only to numbers desired upon at trial but also to provide each party a sense of the other's view of reality in mediation and settlement discussions. Behavioral and medical experts can address custody and other nonquantifiable issues.

The expert has a role in both discovery and trial. A strong deposition of the other side's expert lays the groundwork for a Daubert challenge and can position the client for a favorable pretrial resolution. This webinar will provide legal and factual preparation for deposition cross and trial cross-examination strategies.

Listen as our panel of courtroom veterans provides real world guidance regarding experts in divorce proceedings. The panel will discuss Daubert in the divorce context and provide practical advice concerning expert selection, deposition, and trial examination.

Outline

  1. Subject matters for experts in divorce cases
    1. Quantifiable subjects (valuation, financial, etc.)
    2. Unquantifiable subjects (behavioral, medical, etc.)
  2. Expert depostion
    1. Fact preparation
    2. Legal preparation
    3. Conduct of deposition
  3. Daubert motion (before trial)
  4. Trial examination of expert
    1. Direct
    2. Cross

Benefits

The panel will review these and other essential matters:

  • The appropriate subject matter of expert testimony
  • Role of Daubert in the divorce context
  • Deposition preparation and strategy
  • Experts during trial