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AM Session: 9:00 - 12:00

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

PM Session: 1:00 - 4:30

5. Parenting Coordinators
6. Discovery
7. Mediation and Collaborative Law
8. Domestic Violence

AM Session: 9:00 - 12:00
Panel Members:
Hon. Paul J. Denenfeld
Hon. Stephen D. Gorsalitz
Hon. David A. Hoort
Hon. James C. Kingsley
Hon. Jon A. Van Allsburg
Hon. Christopher P. Yates
Moderator: Susan Wilson Keener

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

PM Session: 1:00 - 4:30
Panel Members:
Hon. Kathleen A. Feeney
Hon. Stephen D. Gorsalitz
Hon. David A. Hoort
Hon. James C. Kingsley
Hon. Jon A. Van Allsburg
Moderator: Susan Wilson Keener

5. Parenting Coordinators
6. Discovery
   1. Rules of Evidence
   2. E-Discovery
   3. Admissibility
7. Mediation and Collaborative Law
8. Domestic Violence

HON. PAUL J. DENENFELD has served as a judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Kent County since 2009, and currently is assigned to the Family Division.

HON. KATHEEN A. FEENEY has served as a judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Kent County since 2007, and currently is assigned to the Family Division.

HON. STEPHEN D. GORSALITZ has served as a judge for the 9th Judicial Circuit Court in Kalamazoo County since 1998, and currently is assigned to the Family Division.

HON. DAVID A. HOORT serves as a judge for the 8th Judicial Circuit Court in Ionia and Montcalm counties.

HON. JAMES C. KINGSLEY has served as a circuit court judge for the 37th Judicial Circuit in Calhoun County since 1982.

HON. JON A. VAN ALLSBURG serves as a circuit judge for the 20th Judicial Circuit Court in Ottawa County.

HON. CHRISTOPHER P. YATES has served as a judge for the 17th Judicial Circuit Court in Kent County since 2008, and currently is assigned to the Family Division.

MODERATOR - SUSAN WILSON KEENER is the principal of Keener Law Office PLC in Grand Rapids, where she has practiced in family law and collaborative family law since 1984.

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