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1. On the Road: Your Key to Getting Started
2. Get the Lay of the Land: Discovery Tools and Tactics
3. Navigating the Fork in the Road: Fairly Dividing Assets and Liabilities
4. Baby on Board: Handling Child Custody, Visitation and Support Issues
5. Rules of the Road: Maintaining High Ethical Standards
6. Back in the Garage: Concluding the Divorce Action

1. ON THE ROAD: YOUR KEY TO GETTING STARTED
   9:00 - 10:00, Jeanine Carafello
   1. Surefire Interviewing Techniques for the Initial Client Intake
   2. Collecting Records, Reviewing Credit and Creating a Budget
   3. Essential Elements of a Separation Agreement
   4. Initiating the Divorce Action
      1. Drafting the Summons and Complaint
      2. The Response
      3. Temporary Orders
      4. Meeting Service Requirements
2. GET THE LAY OF THE LAND: DISCOVERY TOOLS AND TACTICS
   10:15 -11:15, Jeanine Carafello
   1. Determining the Need for Discovery
   2. General Formal Discovery Tools Including Interrogatories, Depositions and Requests to Produce
   3. Informal Methods of Discovery
   4. Proven Methods for Discovering Assets in Divorce
      1. How to Uncover Hidden Assets
      2. On-Line Records Searches
3. NAVIGATING THE FORK IN THE ROAD: FAIRLY DIVIDING ASSETS AND LIABILITIES
   11:15 - 12:15, Robert R. Williard
   1. Identifying and Handling Assets Acquired Before the Marriage
   2. Distinguishing Between Community and Separate Assets
   3. Division of Marital Assets - Businesses, Property and Vehicles
   4. Division of Retirement Benefits Including QDROs and EDROs
   5. Equitable Property Division Strategies
   6. Insurance and Inheritance Issues
   7. Spousal Maintenance
   8. Dividing Debt
4. BABY ON BOARD: HANDLING CHILD CUSTODY, VISITATION AND SUPPORT ISSUES
   1:15 - 2:15, Robert R. Williard
   1. Custody Arrangements - Traditional, Creative and Alternative Methods
   2. Visitation Issues
   3. Modifying Existing Custody and Visitation Terms
   4. Determining and Calculating Child Support
5. RULES OF THE ROAD: MAINTAINING HIGH ETHICAL STANDARDS
   2:30 - 3:30, John Robert White
1. How to Remove the Potential for Conflicts of Interest
2. How to Set Fair Attorneys' Fees
3. Confidentiality and Disclosure Issues Unique to Divorce
6. BACK IN THE GARAGE: CONCLUDING THE DIVORCE ACTION
   3:30 - 4:30, John Robert White
   1. Drafting a Comprehensive Marital Settlement Agreement
   2. Preparation and Trial of a Divorce Action
   3. Final Judgment or Decree of Divorce
   4. Post-Divorce Issues

JEANINE CARAFELLO is an attorney with the Jackson law office of M Judith Barnett, PA, where she practices in criminal defense, domestic law and civil rights litigation. Ms. Carafello earned her B.B.A. degree from the University of Memphis and her J.D. degree from Mississippi College School of Law. She is a member of the Young Trial Lawyers Association, the National Association of Criminal Defense and The American Trial Lawyers Association.

JOHN ROBERT WHITE is an attorney at John Robert White, P.A., in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Mr. White began his legal career as a research assistant with the Mississippi Supreme Court. Two years later, he entered private practice with a Jackson law firm, and in 1989, began his own firm. In 1996, Mr. White narrowed the scope and focus of his firm to family law, which has been practiced by the firm almost exclusively since then. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Accountancy and a 1985 graduate of the University of Mississippi Law School.

ROBERT R. WILLIARD is a sole practitioner in Brandon, where he practices in the areas of domestic relations and civil litigation. Mr. Williard was an instructor at Southern Technical Institute for paralegal studies on business law. He earned his B.A. degree from Millsaps College and his J.D. degree from Mississippi College. Mr. Williard is a member of the Hinds County Bar Association, The Rankin County Bar Association, The Mississippi Bar and the Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association.

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