Resources
California Collaborative Law Resources and Practitioners
Co-Parenting and Conflict Reduction
- Shared Parenting Support Program
The Shared Parenting Support Program (SPSP) is a structured therapy designed to guide divorced parents
in the transformation of "intimate anger," the anger of the dissolution process, to skillful collaboration in the
long-term, day-in and day-out, co-parenting of their children. SPSP was developed in 1989 by Frank Leek, Ph.D.,
a clinical and forensic psychologist.
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Alternative Group, Inc.'s Co-Parenting Training and Shared Parenting Support Program
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The Parent Project®
The Parent Project® is a parenting skills program designed specifically for parents
with strong-willed or out-of-control children. Because of its success in preventing, identifying
and intervening in the most destructive of adolescent behaviors, the Parent Project® has won
three state awards in California and has been successfully adopted for use by hundreds of
communities throughout the nation.
Research Resources
CAFC Materials Used At "Daddy Hunger" Introduction
Self Help Resources
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California Courts Self-Help Center:
Family Law Facilitator: Free and Low-Cost Legal Help
The family law facilitator provides educational materials that explain how to establish parentage, and get, change or
enforce child, spousal or partner support orders. The family law facilitator can also:
- Provide the court
forms you need
- Help you fill out
your forms
- Help you calculate
support amounts
- Refer you to local child support agencies, family court services, and other community
agencies that help parents and children
Military Family Law Resources
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American Retirees Association
Discover how unpublished Federal policy brutally punishes loyal career, Military, PHS, and
NOAA personnel
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Silent Partner: Child Support Options
SILENT PARTNER is a lawyer-to-lawyer resource for military legal assistance attorneys and
civilian lawyers, published by the Military Committee of the American Bar Association’s Family Law
Section.
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A Judge's Guide to the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
You may from time to time encounter parties to a lawsuit who are on active duty in the
armed forces. This Guide highlights some of the issues related to the impact of military service on
civil litigation, financial obligations, mortgages, leases, and other matters. Its specific focus is
on the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).
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A Short Course in Military Family Law Issues
The program materials of a course presented in May 2006 by the American Bar Association
Section of Family Law
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The Military Divorce Handbook: A Practical Guide to Representing Military Personnel and Their Families
The Military Divorce Handbook covers all aspects of representing servicemembers and their
spouses in divorce. Military personnel are involved in the same domestic situations as civilians:
divorce, separation, custody, support, and division of property. Yet when a divorce action involves a
military client, there are special issues that arise which make these cases more difficult. Key
chapters explain the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA), military tax issues, and the important
issue of dividing military retirement benefits. Also, covered are the difficult and increasingly
important issues of custody and domestic violence involving servicemembers.
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Every Single Girl’s Guide to Her Future Husband’s Last Divorce
Award winning filmmaker, parallel entrepreneur and unabashed author Adryenn Ashley achieves
the impossible: using laugh-out-loud humor she delivers essential financial and legal information
so effectively, you actually get it.. A Certified Divorce Financial Analyst, Certified Asset
Protection Specialist, and Forensic Accountant, Ashley breaks down complicated financial issues,
empowering women to take crucial steps toward their own financial health. This Guide gives you an all
access pass to the world of second marriages. By the time you finish this book, you will know what to
ask, where to look for information, and whenever possible, how to right the wrongs perpetrated by
the ex-wife’s divorce lawyer.
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Never Far Apart
WARRIOR BAND INC. aides service members and their families. They believe it is imperative
that service members have the necessary tools to maintain parent/child relationships during extended
periods of separation. To further their efforts, they have aquired the children's book,
"Never Far Apart" written by LT Gary, a 21 year Navy SEAL commando!
Professional Services
- CDFA - Certified Divorce Financial Analysts
CDFA are financial analysts, based in Petaluma, California, who specializes in the financial issues
of people going through the divorce process.
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Bijili Elizabeth Abbey - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Bijili Elizabeth Abbey provides the following services in the Sacramento region:
- Supervised visitation and facilitated
visitation
- Shared Parenting Support Program (SPSP©) and
co-parenting counseling
- Reunification Counseling
- Counseling and therapy for children,
couples, and families using a variety of modalities, including
sandplay, play and art therapy
- Child custody mediation
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Family Violence Treatment and Education Association
FAVTEA is comprised of Batterer Intervention Providers and mental health professionals
who are concerned about the problem of family violence and the narrow lens through
which it is currently viewed. They provide clinical services to perpetrators of partner
and child abuse, and their families. Their members present trainings and seminars,
attend community meetings, and work cooperatively with law enforcement, victim advocates,
other mental health professionals and faith-based organizations. FAVTEA sponsors
an annual training conference, hosts special events and community forums, and publishes
a newsletter — the FAVTEA Bulletin — twice per year.
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