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1. Psychological and Custody Evaluations: How They Relate to Custody and Visitation
2. Custody Determinants, Relocation and Parental Kidnapping Prevention
3. Child and Spousal Support: Factors in Determination, Modification, Termination and Enforcement
4. Dealing With the Assets and Debts
5. Legal Ethics - The Judicial View
6. Discovery
7. Mediation and Collaborative Law
8. Domestic Violence

AM Session: 9:00-12:00
Presenters: Judge Dorothea Batiste, Judge Hoyt Elliott and Judge J. Brian Huff
Moderator: Lisa L. Woods

• Psychological and Custody Evaluations: How They Relate to Custody and Visitation
• Custody Determinants, Relocation and Parental Kidnapping Prevention
• Child and Spousal Support: Factors in Determination, Modification, Termination and Enforcement
• Dealing With the Assets and Debts

PM Session: 1:00-4:30
Presenters: Judge Dorothea Batiste, Judge Hoyt Elliott and Judge J. Brian Huff
Moderator: Lisa L. Woods

• Legal Ethics - The Judicial View (1:00 - 2:00)
• Discovery
• Rules of Evidence
• E-Discovery
• Admissibility
• Mediation and Collaborative Law
• Domestic Violence

HON. DOROTHEA BATISTE is a Domestic Relations Circuit Court Judge in the 10th Judicial Circuit in Jefferson County, Alabama.

HON. HOYT ELLIOTT is a Circuit Court Judge in the 14th Judicial Circuit in Walker County, Alabama.

HON. J. BRIAN HUFF is the presiding judge in the Jefferson County Family Court.

MODERATOR - LISA L. WOODS is the principal of the Birmingham Law Office of Lisa L. Woods. Since 1989, Ms. Woods has focused her practice on domestic relations law, matrimonial law and family law. Ms. Woods is a member of the Birmingham and American (member, Family Law Section) bar associations, the Alabama State Bar, the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association, and The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. She earned her B.A. degree, cum laude, from Birmingham-Southern College and her J.D. degree from the University of Alabama.

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