Association of Certified Family Law Specialists

The Association of Certified Family Law Specialists (ACFLS) is a non-profit organization of lawyers who have been designated as a Certified Specialist in Family Law by the California Board of Legal Specialization ("CBLS").

ACFLS was formed in 1980, after the California Board of Legal Specialization certified the first group of Family Law Specialists.

ACFLS was originally called the Northern California Society of Certified Family Law Specialists. Today, the ACFLS has grown to more than 600 members with chapters for family law attorneys in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and a provisional chapter in Orange County.

ACFLS also maintains a database of its members who are all Certified Family Law Specialists in California.

Contact Information for the ACFLS

Membership in the ACFLS has only one qualification for membership - applicants must be certified as a Family Law Specialist by the CBLS. After earning that certification, the california family law attorney may join ACFLS by simply paying the dues and submitting the application.

Benefits of Joining the ACFLS

Members of ACFLS are dedicated to promoting family law as a specialty area of the law, exchanging information, encouraging the ethical practice, and monitoring legislation impacting the family law attorney.

The benefits of membership include:

• electronic updates on new cases and substantive legal issues;
• discounts on ACFLS educational materials;
• discounts at the ACFLS Spring Seminar:
• access to the ACFLS amicus briefs submitted to California appellate courts;
• a listing in the "Little Yellow Book" membership directory;
• a listing on the ACFLS public online website's membership directory (searchable by name or county);
• access to the ACFLS listserve allowing members to post questions or share information; and
• networking opportunities with many of the top family law attorneys in the State of California.