Vanessa and Alice attended the Association of Family and Conciliatory Courts (AFCC)’s 60th Anniversary Conference. AFCC is an international interdisciplinary association of professionals dedicated to the resolution of family conflict. AFCC members are the leading practitioners, researchers, teachers and policymakers in the family court arena. This includes judges, attorneys, mediators, custody evaluators, social workers, and more. They attended programs on a mix of topics, including:

· Parent-Child Contact Problems: The Intersection of Policy and Practice

· Getting the Right Services to the Right Family at the Right Time

· A Comparison of Child Custody and Hague Cases

· Focused Issues in Family Law Involving Families with Neurodiverse Children

· Intensive Family Intervention for Parent-Child Contact Problems: Risk and Benefits

· Parenting Plan Evaluations: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

· Working with Cultural Evidence: A Practical Framework for Judges and Lawyers

· The Child's Court-Appointed Attorney: Teamwork or Tension in High Conflict Cases

Candelaria PC is committed to maintaining a high level child custody practice and to continue learning about the changes in law and trends involving the best interests of children.