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Counties of Dallas, Tarrant, Denton and Collin. AAML: Member, National Exam Committee, 1992-. Previous: National Board of Governors, 1993-96, 2002-; President, Texas Chapter, 1991-93. Member: State Bar of TX; Dallas Bar Assn.; TX Academy of Family Law Specialists; International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; American College of Family Trial Lawyers; Tarrant County Family Law Bar Assn. Current Positions: AAML Board of Governors. Pattern Jury Charge Comm., State Bar of TX. Previous Positions: Chair, Fam. Law Sect., State Bar of TX, 1994-95; Pres., TX Academy of Fam. Law Specialists, 1993-94; Pres., Family Law Section, Dallas Bar Assn., 1986. CLE Participation: Frequent Author & Lecturer; Course Director Adv. Family Law Course 1999. Recipient of Judge Sam Emison Award, 1997.

AAML Previous Positions: Texas Chapter President, 1993-95, Vice President, 1991-93. Member: State Bar of Texas. Current Positions: Family Law Exam Commission, 1994-to date; Grievance Committee, 1996-to date; TX Supreme Court, Child Support and Visitation Guidelines Committee, 1998-99. Previous Position: Denton County Bar President, 1990-91; Member, Family Law Council, 1984-93; TX Academy of Family Law Specialists, 2nd Vice President, 1983-85, Director, 1986-89. CLE Presentations: 1998 Advanced Family Law Course - Modification of Custody and Possession; Law Office Economics.

Member: American Bar, Texas Bar and Amarillo Bar Assns. Current Positions: President, 2002-04, Texas Panhandle Family Law Assn; Secretary, 2002-03, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, 1998-2003; Councilman, TX Family Law Council, State Bar of TX; Chairman, Pro Bono Comm.- Family Law Counsel, State Bar of TX, 2002-05; Delegate Council of Community Property States, 2001-05; TX Board of Legal Specialization, Chair, Family Law Advisory Commission, 2003-05 and Drafter, Family Law Certification Examination, 2003-05. Previous Position: Pres., Amarillo Young Lawyers Assn, 1979-80. CLE Participation: Matrimonial Agreements, Requirements for Validity, Council of Community Property States, 2002; Medical Child Support Orders, Marriage Dissolution, 2002. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Retirement, Council of Community Property States 2003; Discovery Rules Update, Advanced Family Law Drafting, 2002; Top Ten Things You Should Know in Property Cases. Marriage Dissolution 2003, Relocation Can You Pass Go, Advanced Family Law Course, 2003; Jurisdiction and Venue Marriage Dissolution, 2004.

Member: American Bar Association, Family Law Section. Dallas Bar Association, Family Law Section. State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section. Current Positions: Director, Family Law Section, Dallas Bar Association. CLE Participation: Advanced Family Law, 1983-2002. Marriage Disolution, 2000, 2001, 2002. Texas Academy of Family Specialists Trial Institute, 2001, 2002. Author: Guns N Orders (Firearms and Family Law) - Adv. Fam. Law Seminar 2000. Enforcement/Contempt - Adv. Family Law Seminar, 1999. Federal Gun Control Laws and Their Relation to Temporary Domestic Relations Orders and Family Violence Protection Orders, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 2002.

Counties of Tarrant, Parker and N. Central Texas area. AAML, National Secretary, 2002-03, Parliamentarian 2001-02, Past President - Texas Chapter. Diplomate-American College of Family Trial Lawyers; Fellow International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Member: Parker County Bar (Past President), Tarrant County Family Bar, State Bar of Texas Chair, Family Law Section, 3004-2005, ABA (former Delegate, ABA House of Delegates), Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists (President 2004-2005) Former newsletter editor. CLE Participation: Course Director, State Bar of TX, 2002 Adv. Family Law Course, Dallas, TX; Course Director, State Bar of TX, 2000 Marriage Dissolution Institute, Ft. Worth, TX Course Director, 1999 Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Trial Institute, Las Vegas, NV; Assistant Course Director 1997 and 1998 Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Trial Institutes, New Orleans, LA; Author and Lecturer at numerous State Bar of TX courses. Life Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation and AAML Foundation.

Counties of Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery. AAML: Arbitration Committee, 1995-1999. Previous: Legislative Committee. Member: State Bar of Texas. Current Positions: Legislative Committee, Family Law Section, 1983-Present. Previous Positions: Chair, Family Law Section, 1985-1987. Chair, Editorial Committee, Texas Family Law Practice Manual, 1981-89. Co-Author: Sampson & Tindall's Texas Family Code Annotated (13th Edition, West Group)

Counties of Harris, Fort Bend and Montgomery. Bd. Cert., Fam. Law. Member: ABA, Family Law and ADR Sections; State of TX Bar Assn., Family Law, Women in Law, and ADR Sections; Houston Bar Assn., Family Law, and ADR Sections. Previous Positions: Houston Bar Assn.-Family Law Section: Immed. Past Chair, 1997-98; Chair, 1996-97, Sec. of Board, 1994-96. CLE Participation: 1997, 1998, and 1999 Course Director, Lecturer 1997 through 2000; Family Law Course, South TX College of Law; Faculty Member: CLE Family Law Mediation, South TX College of Law, 1996 through 1999; ABA Training in Arbitration;, Family Law, 1995, AAML Arbitration Training, 1999. A Professional Development Program, State Bar of TX. Member Bd. of Trustees; South TX College of Law, 1999-present, Member Ex. Comm. 2002 to present; Burta Rhoads Raborn Family Law Inn of Court, Pres., 2002-2003. Collaborative Law Training, both basic and advanced; Gubernatorial Appointee to TX Dept. of Fam. and Protective Services Council, 2004; Member on Comm. to Re-Draft TX Fam. Law Ad Litem Statute, 2003.

County of Tarrant and Fort Worth: AAML: Member, Natl. Board of Governors 1997-98, 2003-04; Co-Chair, Institute for Training New Lawyers, 1997-99. President, AAML Texas Chapter, 1996-97; Co-Chair, AAML CLE 2001-2002. Fellow, International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Board Certified-Family Law-State Bar of Texas - Board of Legal Specialization; Vice Pres.-Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; Vice Pres., Family Law Council of the State Bar of TX; Previous Positions: Director Tarrant County Family Law Bar Assn; Chair, TX Family Law Practice Manual Editorial Comm. CLE Participation: Speaker - TX Adv. Family Law Course 1984-2003; TX Marriage Dissolution Course 1982-2004; State Bar of TX Seminar - The Ultimate Trial Notebook; AAML-CLE programs. TX Academy of Family Law Specialists Trial Institutes and numerous other speaking engagements. Author: Advanced Valuation Techniques of Professional Practices; Characterization Tracing & Reimbursement State Bar of TX and over 40 other publications.

Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. Serves on the Texas State Bar Association Family Law Exam Commission. Admitted to practice in state courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Counties of Harris, Fort Bend, Galveston, Montgomery. Board Certified - Family Law since 1980 Texas Board of Legal Specialization. AAML: President, 2001-2002; Past Editor-in-Chief AAML Journal & Digest; Past President, Texas Chapter. American College of Family Trial Lawyers; Past Board of Directors - State Bar of Texas; Past President - Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; Past Chair - Family Law Advisory Commission - Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Past Chair - Family Law Section State Bar of Texas; Adj. Professor Univ. of Houston School of Law; Univ. of Texas School of Law; Washington & Lee Univ. School of Law. Speaker and prior Course Director; Advanced Family Law - SBOT; Frequent Author & Lecturer, representative topics: Oil & Gas Issues Family Law; Bankruptcy Before, During and After Divorce; Division of Unusual & Complex Assets; Hearsay & Testimony of a Child; Strategy of Custody Cases; Ethics in Family Law; Experts in Marital Property. Recipient of the Sam Emison Award.

AAML: Texas Chapter President, 1988-89. Bd. Cert. Family Law, TX Bd. of Legal Specialization, 1975-date. Fellow: International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; San Antonio Family Lawyers Assn. (Founder; President 1980-81); State Bar of TX, (Fam. Law Sect. Chair 1993-94); TX Academy of Family Law Specialists (Pres. 1995-96); Judge Sam Emison Award 1999); Family Law Council of Community Property States (Natl. Chr. 1995-96). State Bar of TX Family Law Courses and Institutes (Planning Com. & Faculties 1977 to date). Texas Family Law Practice Manual (Editorial Committee 1981-91). Certified in Family Law Mediation and Arbitration. Brigadier General, JA, USA (Ret.)

Counties of Dallas, Denton, Tarrant, Grayson, Rockwell, Kaufman & Collin. Board Certified in Family Law by the TX Board of Legal Specialization. Member: Former Director, TX Academy of Family Law Specialists; Former Member, Family Law Council, State Bar of TX; Certified Family Mediator, Attorney-Mediators Institute; Certified Family Law Arbitrator; AMA; Fellow - College of the State Bar of TX; Member; American Trial Lawyers Association; Contributing Author - 'Texas Family Law Practice Manual 1st and 2nd Edition,' Manual Revision Committee State Bar of TX; TX Board of Legal Specialization Examiner for Board Certification in Family Law; 'Master of the Bench', The Annette Stewart American Inn of Court; Licensed Courts: U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas, U.S. Supreme Court, Texas Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, U.S. Tax Court, District of Columbia, Washington, DC.

County of Tarrant. AAML: Previous Positions: Special Concerns of Children Committee. Member, Attorney Fees Committee. Member: State Bar of Texas, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, American Bar Association Family Law Section, Tarrant County Family Law Bar Association and Dallas Bar Association Family Law Section. Previous Positions: Director, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists. President, Family Law Section of Dallas Bar Association. Author: ``Civil Appellate Procedures and the Equitable Bill of Review,'' TARCO Summer Seminar 1994, ``Preparing for Court Techniques and Strategies,'' Effective Family Law Practice in Texas, 1993, ``Trial Notebook,'' Family Advocate, Vol. 12, No.4.

Member: Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists; Houston Bar Association, Family Law Section; State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section; Burta Rhoads Raburn Family Law Inns of Court. Current Positions: Director, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists. Past Prest, Golf Coast Family Law Specialists. Previous Positions: President, Treasurer, Secretary of Golf Coast Family Specialists. CLE Participation: Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Trial Institute, 2002, 2003. Marriage Dissolution Institute, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003. Advanced Family Law Seminar, 2000, 2001, 2002. Advanced Family Law Drafting Seminar, 2002. Author: Marriage Dissolution Instutute - Real Estate Appraisals & Receivers, How to Use and Abuse, 2003; South Texas College of Law, Family Law Conference - Working with ad Litems, 2003; Advanced Family Law Seminar, Are Mental Health Records of a Child Accessable to an Ad Litem?, 2002; South Texas College of Law - Ad Litem Appointments in Publication Divorces, 2002.

Practice consists of Litigation, Mediation and Collaborative Family Law. Member: ABA, Family Law Section; American Inn of Court; State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section, (licensed since 1980); Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists; College of the State Bar of Texas; Dallas Bar Assn. Family Law Section; Fellow; AAML; Dallas Bar Foundation; Texas Bar Foundation; Board Certified in Family Law, (1985). Previously: Associate Family Court Judge in Dallas County; State Bar Grievance Comm. Panel Chair. Speaker - State and Local Bar Programs on a Variety of Topics, Currently Focusing on Alternate Ways of Handling Family Law Matters Including Collaborative Law. Co-Founder of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas. Advanced Mediation Training: American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the Harvard Law School Negotiation Project. Recognized as One of the Top 11 Family Lawyers in Dallas, D. Magazine, 2003. Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly Magazine, 2003.

Practice in Dallas, Collin, Tarrant and Denton Counties. Member: State Bar of TX, Dallas Bar Assn.., TX Acad. of Fam. Law Spec.; College of the State Bar of TX; Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Lawyers; Amer. Inn of Court. Current Positions: Chair, TX Bd. of Legal Spec. Comm. for Writing and Grading Exam for Bd. Cert. Legal Asst. in Fam. Law; Dir., Collaborative Law Inst. of TX. Previous Positions: Past Dir., Dallas Bar Assn., Fam. Law Sect.; Adj. Prof. of Law at TX Tech Univ. Sch. of Law and TX Wesleyan Univ. Sch. of Law; Past Chair, Dist. Grievance Comm. of State Bar of TX. CLE Participation: Collaborative Fam. Law Training,2000-03; Adv. Fam. Law Course, 2000-01-02, 03; International Assn. of Collaborative Professionals, 2002,2003; Alt. Disp. Res. Sem., 2001; 14th Annual Trial Inst., 2000; Eval. Fam. Law Cases, 2000. Author-Speaker: Collaborative Law Training, State Bar of TX Adv. Fam. Law Course, 2002-03; Collaborative Fam. Law Panel, State Bar of TX Adv. Family Law Course, 2001.Workshop -4th Annual Forum International Assn. of Collaborative Professionals (2003).

Member: ABA, TX Bar Assn., Houston Bar Assn.. Member, Family Law Section of State Bar and Houston Bar. TX Academy of Family Law Specialists. Current Positions: Family Law Sect. of Houston Bar Board, Board Member, Inns of Court. Previous Positions: Chair, Panel 4F Grievance, State Bar of TX. Director, Fam. Law Sect. of Houston Bar Assn.. CLE Participation: Planning Comm. Chair, South TX College of Law, Family Law Conf. for 2003; Planning Comm. and Speaker, South Texas Family Law Conf. for 2002; Speaker at Family Law Practice Seminar for Univ. of Houston, May 2002. Speaker, S. TX Family Law Conference, 2004. Working Your Way Through Health Insurance Plans, HBA Family Law Section. Author: ``ADR: A Mixed Bag'' University of Houston Family Law Practice Seminar. Collaborative Family Law: ``Saving Money and Relationships'' for South Texas Family Law Conference. Mental Health Evaluations and Their Alternative, for South Texas.

County of Harris. AAML: Federal Taxation Committee; Mediation Committee. Member: Board Certified in Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Board Certified in Family Law Trial Advocacy, National Board of Trial Advocacy; Certified Public Accountant. Current Positions: Past President, American Family Law Inns of Court, Houston Chapter; Director, Houston BarAssn, Family Law Section. CLE Participation: Adv. Family Law Course, Numerous Consecutive Years; South TX College of Law, Family Law Conf.; Univ. of Houston College of Law, Family Law Conf. Author: Valvation of Closely Held Business Interests in Divorce; Protecting Divorce Decrees from Bankruptcy; Preparation for Mediation; Federal Tax Issues in Family Law. Teaching Faculty, ABA Family Law Trial Advocacy Course, Univ. of Houston School of Law, 2000, 2002; The David A. Gibson Award For Demonstrating Professionalism and Excellence in the Pratice of Family Law, Presented by The Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists, 2000. State Bar of TX, Mediator of the Year Award, 2001-02.

Member: State Bar of Texas; San Antonio, Houston and Dallas Bar Assns; Board Certified in Family Law and Civil Appellate Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Fellow, American Board of Trial Advocates. Current Position: Vice-Chair, State Bar of Texas CLE Committee; Member, Texas Supreme Court Advisory Comm. on Rules of Procedure and Evidence. Previous Positions: Chair, State Bar Family Law Section (1990-91); Chair State Bar Appellate Section (1996-97); President, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists (1990-91). CLE Participation: Over 100 presentations for State Bar of Texas and Texas Law Schools as well as the AICPA and the American Assn. of Psychiatry and the Law; Over 100 articles on family law, trial and appellate procedures, evidence and technology. Author: Chief Editor, Family Law Section Expert Witness Manual (1999); Vol. 6 McDonalds Texas Civil Practice (Appeals) (1992); Awards: State Bar of Texas: Presidential Citation (2001) Gene Cavin Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education (1996), Certificates of Merit (1995, 1996, 1997, 2004); State Bar Family Law Section Dan R. Price award for Outstanding Contributions of Family Law (2001).

Member: American Bar, Texas Bar, Houston Bar Associations. Texas Association of Family Law Specialists, American Family Law Inns of Court. Listed since '87 in Best Lawyers in America. CLE Presentations: South Texas College of LAW, panelists, ``Common Pitfalls in Property''; 1997: American Society of Appraisers, ``Appraisal Issues: Trusts and Estate Family Law, Tax and Litigation''; Speaker, Family Law Art and Advocacy Course, ``Cross-Examination re: Attorney's Fees.'' 1998: Speaker, Advanced Family Law Seminar ``Tax Impact of Property Division;'' 1999: Panel Speaker, Advanced Family Law Seminar 'Economics of Running a Law Firm.' 2000 Panel Speaker, South Texas College of Law Family Law Conference, 'Ethics Jeopardy'.

Member:International Acaddemy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 2004-. Texas Acad. of Family Law Specialists, 1989-, Director 2000-present; Gulf Coast Family Law Specialists, 1989-; Burta Rhodes Raborn Family Law - Inns of Court, Chair, 2003-04, Master, 1996-; Texas Family Law Specialists 1988-; Texas Bar Foundation; ABA, Family Law Section. Phi Delta Phi. Current Positions: Children's Friend in Court, Chair, 1997-, Sec. 1996; Previous Positions: Houston Bar Assn., Fam. Law Past Chair 2001, Chair 2002, Sec., 1997-2000; Bd. Member 1996, Director, 1996-97; Assn. of Women Attorneys, Pres., Vice-Pres., Sec., 1982-98; Assn. of Women Attorneys Foundation, former officer; Founder Texas Women's Lawyers, Sec. 1997, Director, 1996-97. Authorand Lecturer in a wide variety of Family Law Topics.

Our office prosecutes cases in all areas of family law including, pre-nuptial agreements, divorce, initial and modification of child custody and support, protective orders, enforcement of court orders, domestication of out of state orders, child adoption, name change and related matters. The range of services we provide range from uncontested/agreed matters to jury trials on the merits of complex child custody and property division. We provide aggressive, cost efficient representation.

Counties of Travis, Williamson and Hays. AAML: ABA; American Board of Trial Advocates; State Bar of TX (Family Law Council); State Bar College; TX Bar Foundation, Life Fellow; TX Acad. of Fam. Law Specialists; Travis and Williamson County Bar Assns; Travis County Family Law Advocates; . Previous Positions: AAML-TX Chapter: Treas. (2002), Sec. (2003); State Bar of TX: Vice Pres., Family Law Section (1980); TX Collaborative Law Institute: Founding Member & Bd.of Trustees (2003). Course Participation: Adv. Family Law Course speaker (1997, 1998, 2003, 2004); Speaker: Winning Techniques in Family Law Litigation (1998); Adv. Family Law Drafting Course (1994, 1995, 2001); Adv. Family Law Legal Asst. Seminar (1997); Univ. of TX: Guest lecturer Gender Based Discrimination. Named, in Texas Monthly as one of Texas Super Lawyers and Top 50 Central and W. TX Region Super Lawyers, (2003). Univ. of TX Family Law on The Front Lines: Guest Speaker Collaborative Law, (2004). Collaborative Law Inst. of TX First Annual Retreat: Guest Speaker (2004).

Counties of Harris, Ft. Bend and Galveston.. Member: State Bar of Texas, Family Law Section; Houston Bar Association; Texas Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Texas Board of Legal Specialization - Family Law. Current Position: Master, American Inns of Court - Family; Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation; Charter Fellow, Houston Bar Foundation. Previous Positions: Director, State Bar of Texas; Director, Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Past President Houston Trial Lawyers Association; Director, Gulf Coast Family Law Association. CLE Participation: South Texas College of Law - Family Law Seminar, 2001and 2002, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Family Law, 1999. University of Houston, Family Law Seminar, September, 1997, University of Houston, Family Law Seminar, November, 1995. Author: Proper Voir Dire, T.A.D.C., 1994; Property Evaluation University of Houston Family Law Notebook, 1995; Speaker, 2nd Family Law Institute, Houston Bar Association,1998. 'Who's Who in Houston Law,' The Houston Business Journal. 2003 Super Lawyer, Texas Monthly Magazine. Web Site: www.lawcl.com.