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NJ-AFCC
The New Jersey Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts

Meeting Schedule

NJ-AFCC Annual Spring Dinner Meeting
Phil Sobel will be honored
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
6-10 pm
Renaissance Woodbridge Hotel
515 Us Highway 1 South
Iselin, NJ 08830
(732) 634-3600

Wine and cheese reception, followed by dinner
6-10 pm
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Woodbridge Renaissance Hotel
515 US Highway 1 South
Iselin, NJ 08830
(732) 634-3600

Hot Tips in Family Law:  From the Cradle to the Grave

  • Evaluation Options (e.g. Parenting Time, Risk Assessments, Settlement Based)
  • Child Specialist in Non-collaborative Cases
  • Addictions and Substance Use Disorder Evaluations
  • Parental Alienation
  • Update on Parent Coordination in the New Jersey Supreme Court
  • Capacity Assessments
  • Guardian ad Litem 

Panel:  The Honorable Catherine Enright, J.S. C.  The Honorable David J. Issenman, J.S. C. (ret.)
The Honorable Roberto Alcazar, J.S.C.

  • Election of Officers (for terms to expire 2014)

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RSVP by May 18, 2012 to Eileen A. Kohutis, Ph.D
2 W. Northfield Road, Suite 209
Livingston, NJ  07039
(973) 716-0174
$90 for NJAFCC members; $100.00 for nonmembers

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***Please circle dinner choice:  Salmon or Chicken***

 

IN MEMORY OF PHIL SOBEL

With profound sadness and deep shock, the New Jersey Chapter of AFCC reports the untimely death of Phil Sobel, Esq.

A founding member of our chapter, Phil was also a Past President. Most recently, he was a member of the Executive Board and the Program Committee.

Phil, born on December 24, 1941, married his sweetheart, Esther, on his birthday. They were married for 46 years. Phil had a loving daughter, Kirsten, and two adored grandsons, ages five and eight. His priority was his family. He died while on vacation with family members.

Educated at Harvard, Phil was a partner in the law firm of Sobel and Brown. Phil dreamed and worked diligently to facilitate real changes in the legal system. One of his primary goals was to find a way to allow divorce litigants to obtain a docket number and to avoid the court process. He believed that by working cooperatively with other professionals that solutions could be reached to settle issues for the parties. A pioneer in advocating for collaborative divorce, Phil was a member of the New Jersey Collaborative Law Group and the New Jersey Council of Collaborative Practice Groups.

Phil was deeply involved in a number of chapter projects, which he undertook with enthusiasm and consummate professionalism. He was quick to offer his time for a new project. Phil was an avid tennis player, an enthusiastic theater-goer, and a knowledgeable sports fan. Highly articulate, he had a keen sense of humor. Recently, after viewing the silent film “The Artist,” he quipped to a chapter past president, who was also in the audience, “I liked the movie but I really had a hard time hearing what the actors were saying to each other.”

by Ron Silikovitz

AFCC 49th Annual Conference
June 6-9, 2012
Hyatt Regency
Chicago, Illinois

***Anyone planning to attend the AFCC Conference in Chicago in June should make your hotel reservations immediately. The conference site, the Hyatt Regency, is sold out. The overflow sites, the Embassy Suites and the Sheraton Chicago, have only a limited number of rooms.***

AFCC 50th Annual Conference
May 29 - June 1, 2013
JW Marriott Hotel at L.A. Live
Los Angeles, California

For the latest information on AFCC conferences, please view the AFCC conferences page on the AFCC parent organization's web site.


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