Family
Jan. 6, 2020
50 years in family law
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Peter M. Walzer
Partner
Walzer Melcher LLP
5941 Variel Avenue
Woodland Hills , CA 91367
Phone: (818) 591-3700
Fax: (818) 591-3774
Email: pmw@walzermelcher.com
Southwestern University SOL; Los Angeles CA
Pete is the founding partner of Walzer Melcher, a practice focused exclusively on family law with offices in Woodland Hills. He is immediate past president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
You know you are getting up there in age when an editor to ask you to write "the history of family law." I took this to mean that she wanted to know what has changed over my years of practice and what has remained the same. I decided to go back 50 years to the inception of "no-fault divorce." Although I was still in high school, at the time my father was a family lawyer and on the governor's Commission on the Family, which endorsed codification of existing case law, "...
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