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1. Getting a Divorce Case Off on the Right Foot
2. Alternative Conflict Resolution in Divorce
3. Dividing Assets and Debts Equitably
4. Exploring Parenting, Visitation and Support Issues
5. Ethical Perils in Divorce Practice
6. Completing the Divorce

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1. Tactics for Thoroughly Interviewing the Client
2. Review of Fundamental Documents in the Divorce Case
3. Drafting an Inclusive Separation Agreement
4. Conducting Effective Discovery
5. Separating Joint Accounts
6. Can You Establish Grounds for Divorce?
7. Does Your Client Need a Protective Order?
8. What Types of Divorce Procedures are Available?
9. Using a Divorce Checklist to Make Sure Your Bases are Covered
10. Taking the First Steps in Starting the Divorce Action
    1. Drafting Initial Divorce Proceedings
    2. What the Response Should Look Like
    3. Properly Serving Papers
11. Negotiation, Mediation or Litigation – Making the Right Choice
12. Potential Pitfalls That May be Encountered

ALTERNATIVE CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN DIVORCE
10:05 -11:45, Vanessa M. Ceravolo

1. Negotiation, Mediation or Litigation - Making the Right Choice
2. The Role of the Mediator, from Start to Finish
3. Specific Issues Unique to Mediation
4. Conflict Resolution Skills Useful to Attorneys and Mediators
   

DIVIDING ASSETS AND DEBTS EQUITABLY
12:45 - 1:45, Christopher J. Gillette

1. Factoring in Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
2. Ways to Identify Assets Acquired Before Marriage
3. Which Assets are Exempt from Distribution?
4. Tackling Tough Valuation Issues
5. What are Considered Marital Assets?
6. Retirement Plans, Pensions and Insurance: How are Long Term Assets Affected?
7. Dividing Debt – Who is Liable?
8. Modification and Enforcement of Asset Distribution
   

EXPLORING PARENTING, VISITATION AND SUPPORT ISSUES
1:45 - 2:30, Kay Lynn Lee

1. The Scope of Child Parenting Jurisdiction and How it Will Affect You
2. Types of Parenting Arrangements
3. Establishing and Enforcing Visitation
4. Modification of Parenting and Visitation Terms
5. Review of Sample Parenting Agreements
6. Child Support Calculations and Modifications
7. Determining Spousal Maintenance and Alimony
8. Medical and Healthcare Considerations
9. Dealing With the Relocation of a Child
   

ETHICAL PERILS IN DIVORCE PRACTICE
2:45 - 3:45, Kay Lynn Lee

1. Controlling Client Relations and Recognizing Dishonesty
2. When Withdrawal of Counsel is Appropriate
3. Avoiding Conflicts of Interest
4. Confidentiality and Disclosure Issues
5. Calculating Fair Attorneys' Fees
   

COMPLETING THE DIVORCE
3:45 - 4:30, Kay Lynn Lee

1. Drafting and Review of the Marital Settlement Agreement
   1. Key Components of the Successful Settlement Agreement
   2. Incorporating Necessary Standard Clauses
   3. Practical Considerations
2. Final Divorce Wrap-Up Checklist
3. Final Judgment or Decree of Divorce
4. Appealing the Judgment or Divorce Decree
5. Tackling Post Divorce Legal Problems

VANESSA M. CERAVOLO has been in private practice in Kalispell since 1992. She is the current president of the Northwest Montana Bar Association and was voted Best Lawyer in Flathead County in 2010. Ms. Ceravolo mediates all kinds of conflicts ranging from divorce to construction and real estate deals. She is a certified family mediator, a Montana District Court settlement master and an appellate mediator for the Montana Supreme Court. Ms. Ceravolo assisted in the creation and development of the Flathead County Justice Court mediation program and has conducted training on conflict resolution for the Montana Mediation Association. She graduated from the University of Montana School of Law and began her law career with the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps.

CHRISTOPHER J. GILLETTE is a family law practitioner in Bozeman, Montana. Mr. Gillette has spoken for National Business Institute, local and state bar functions, and the King County Judges Conference. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Virginia and his J.D. degree from the University of Puget Sound. Mr. Gillette is a member of the King County (Family Law Section), Montana (Family Law Section), Washington State and American bar associations, the State Bar of Montana and the Montana Trial Lawyers Association, as well as serving as the current president of the Gallatin County Bar Association.

KAY LYNN LEE had a long acquaintance with both school (14 years and 7 undergraduate schools interspersed with marriage, a child and moving from Georgia through Montana to Alaska) and work before graduating from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1987. During her law school career she achieved the distinction of winning all three types of Moot Court Awards (Best Constitutional Law Brief, Best Oralist for Criminal Law and First Place in Law & Motion). Her first two divorce cases involved Navy wives whom she talked into staying married. She practiced for 17 years in SoCal, primarily as a trial attorney and then decided to retire to Montana in 2004. Retirement failed to suit her, so she un-retired in 2005 and is now a partner in the firm of Henning, Keedy & Lee, where she is practicing almost exclusively in the field of family law for which she finds she is eminently suited. In her not-so-copious amounts of spare time her hobbies include singing with the Glacier Symphony and Chorale and  Chamber Singers (she also serves on the GSC Board), watercolor painting, hunting, reading, gardening (she recently became a Master Gardener, Level I), water/winter/other sports and admiring/photographing/sewing for/visiting her grandsons, now 4 and 2.

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