Thursday, March 23, 2023

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Zoom
  • Government/Non-Profit Member $20.00
  • Judge Member $0.00
  • LBA Solo Section $25.00
  • LBA YLS Member $15.00
  • Member $40.00
  • Non-Member $80.00
  • Paralegal Member $15.00
  • Sustaining Member $36.00

March 22, 2023 6:00 PM

A reservation is required in advance of the program. Registrants will receive a confirmation e-mail the day before the event which will contain a link to join the meeting via Zoom and attachments of the handout material and CLE activity code and instruction on how to file with the Ky Bar Association (PDF files).

Streamlining and Documenting Co-Parenting Communications and Expenses via Our Family Wizard

Communication problems continue to present challenges for co-parents, attorneys, and the court system. These challenges result in additional strain on children and families. Currently, a majority of co-parent communication takes place via e-mail and texting. However, these forms of communication are often unreliable, can be easily manipulated, and present admissibility concerns. Furthermore, they have the potential to ignite conflict rather than minimize it. This presentation will advise family law professionals of communication technology that is increasingly being ordered by courts and recommended by attorneys in custody cases. Participants will learn how they, as practitioners, can simplify and strengthen their knowledge of the communication and expense sharing between their clients and their clients’ resp

ective co-parents through the use of online tools. Each participant will receive examples of court orders currently being utilized to mandate the ways in which parents will make use of such tools in an effort to increase the effectiveness of the parents’ communication with one another. A related appellate case from Kentucky will be reviewed.

Learning Objectives:

  • Familiarize all attendees with the online tools that are increasingly being recommended by attorneys and ordered by judges to communicate and document shared parenting needs;
  • Recognize evidentiary and reliability issues related to online communication tools utilized by co-parents; and
  • Learn how attorneys, mediators, and other professionals leverage online communication tools to help assess and improve co-parent communication and expense sharing.

Speaker: Danielle Kestnbaum, Our Family Wizard

About our speaker: Danielle earned her law degree with honors from IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law in Chicago, Illinois. Prior to graduating from law school, she received her Masters degree in Social Work from Columbia University in New York City and a BA from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Danielle externed with the Chief Judge of the Domestic Relations Court for the Circuit Court of Cook County during law school. She has worked in the public sector as a child’s advocate and also in the private sector representing parents in a broad range of family law matters. She currently works as a professional liaison for the OurFamilyWizard website and serves as the Vice President of the North Carolina chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.

Cancellation Policy: All cancellations must be received by the LBA 24 hours in advance to receive a credit or refund. Substitutes will be allowed. This is a LIVE program and only accredited for a live program. Any post-event recordings/replays will be subject to the On-Demand fee(s). User-error technology issues do not qualify for a refund.

 

Credit Status: Pending