Author: Steven N. Peskind. Procedures to authenticate exhibits are the building blocks of any case, and objections and their responses are the mortar. Based upon the author’s years of family law practice and from his teaching experience at the ABA Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute, this handbook is organized in a practical format that can work for all family law trial lawyers, regardless of whether they practice in a state that uses a variation on the Federal Rules or a common law body of rules on evidence.