All too frequently, attorneys drafting property settlement agreements, custody agreements, cohabitation agreements, or any agreements in the family law area, focus their attention on the core terms of a settlement, rather than on the agreement as a whole. All too frequently attorneys simply fill in the blanks, using the same boilerplate clauses in all of their agreements. Equally undesirable, attorneys, when reviewing agreements, rush through the drafter's boilerplate clauses and negotiate only the language relating to core term provisions.
This OnDemand Webinar will help you understand the importance of boilerplate clauses, draft boilerplate clauses in such a way as to be useful when and if litigating modification or enforcement actions, and in making every word of an agreement meaningful to your client. This program will provide you with samples of the best of the best boilerplate clauses. This OnDemand Webinar is critical for those drafting agreements in the normal course of their practice and in reviewing such agreements.
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Agenda
Every Agreement Is a Compromise - Agreements, Whether Reached in Negotiation or Mediation, Are the Result of Give-and-Take, of Acknowledging What Is Important to Your Client and What Is More Important or Less Important to the Opposing Spouse - Every Negotiated or Mediated Term of an Agreement Must Be Agreed to Freely and Voluntarily
- Waiver of Rights
- Full Disclosure
- Fairness of Agreement
The Terms of Every Agreement Should Be Confidential - In Celebrity or High Income Cases, Confidentiality Clauses, or, in Some Cases, Separate Confidentiality Agreements, Are Imperative, But Aren't We Obligated to Protect All Clients' Confidences
- Broad Explanation
- Business Interests
- Penalties
Advocacy Starts at the Very Beginning - The Introductory Paragraphs of an Agreement, Commonly Called the Whereas Clauses, Should Lay Out the Factual Premise of the Agreement
- Prior Obligations
- Custody
- Modification
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OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on September 24, 2012.
Call 1-866-352-9540 for further credit information.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Faculty
Madeline Marzano-Lesnevich
Lesnevich & Marzano Lesnevi
Madeline Marzano-Lesnevich, Esq.
- Shareholder and chair of the Family Law Department of Lesnevich and Marzano-Lesnevich, LLC
- The Family Law Department of Lesnevich and Marzano-Lesnevich, LLC specializes in complex marital dissolution proceedings; high income support; business valuations; custody of children in matrimonial dissolution, nondissolution and same sex cases; equitable distribution; domestic violence; grandparents and third-parties visitation issues; and appellate proceedings
- Regularly lectures on behalf of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, American Association for Justice, New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and The American Bar Association
- Has wrote or co-wrote more than 25 published articles relating to all areas of family law
- Vice president of the national organization, the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML); immediate past president of the AAML - New Jersey Chapter; fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; American Bar Association; member of the executive committee of the Family Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association; American Association for Justice; and Bergen County Bar Association
- J.D. degree, Rutgers School of Law - Newark; M.A. degree, City University of New York, The City College of Liberals Arts and Science; B.S. degree, with honors, Columbia University; certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a matrimonial law specialist
- Can be contacted at 201-488-1161, www.lmllawyers.com or [email protected]
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