Shout out to Judge Lauren M. Alperstein, Chair of our Domestic Relations Division, who recently traveled to Tampa, FL to attend the 47th Annual Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) Institute at the JW Marriott. The program focus? Evidentiary Issues from a Judicial Perspective. Judge Alperstein spoke on judicial panels with judges and magistrates from across Florida about evidentiary issues that frequently occur in family court that include records custodians, judicial notice, hearsay exceptions, DCF reports and child hearsay to matrimonial lawyers. Pictured left to right are General Magistrate Philip S. Wartenberg from the 13th Judicial Circuit, Judge Alperstein from the 17th Judicial Circuit, Judge John Guy from the 4th Judicial Circuit, Dori Foster Morales, of Foster-Morales, PLLC, the former president of the Florida Bar; and Joe Hunt, of Harris, Hunt, and Derr, the incoming President of the Florida Chapter of the AAML.
