Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 1990.  Recertified in 2000 and 2010.

Bar/Professional Activity:

• Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Family Law (1990) Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Prior Editor, Editorial Advisory Board for Texas Family Law Evidence Past Member of the Family Law Council; 1991-1996 Past Director for the Dallas Bar Association Family Law Section Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists Family Law Mentor for North Texas Legal Services Texas Family Law Practice Manual Revisions Committee; 1990-1996 North Texas Association of Family Law Attorneys Martindale Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers Member, Texas Family Law Foundation Member, Collaborative Law Institute Texas Monthly, Texas Super Lawyers in Family Law 2003 - 2010 Law Related Publications and Speaking Engagements: Author/Speaker at the 2000 Marriage Dissolution Institute, on "Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plans" Author/Speaker at the 1999 Advanced Family Law Course, on "A Discussion of the New Transmutation and Reimbursement Legislation" Panelist at the New Frontiers in Marital Property Law, October 1998, on "Fiduciary Duties of Spouses and Post Schlueter Remedies" Author/Speaker at the 1998 Marriage Dissolution Institute, May 1998, on "Mediation and Defending or Attacking Mediated Settlement Agreements". Author/Speaker at the 1996 Advanced Family Law Course, on "Mediation Problems, Settlement Agreements & Enforceability Issues". Panel Member for 1995 Advanced Family Law Seminar Workshop on "Custody Experts". Author: "Cold-Cross: Cross Examination of Disclosed but Nondeposed Witnesses - A Checklist", The Ultimate Trial Notebook: Family Law, Austin, 1994. Author/Speaker at the 1994 Advanced Family Law Course on "Bankruptcy and Family Law". Author/Speaker at the 1993 Advanced Family Law Course, on "Severance, Joinder and Separate Trial". Author/Speaker at the 16th Annual Marriage Dissolution, May 1993, seminar on "Summary Judgment". Author/Speaker at the Texas Center for the Judiciary, Inc. seminar entitled Complex Family Law Litigation in March, 1993 on "Fiduciary Responsibility". Author/Speaker at the 1992 Advanced Family Law Seminar on "Alter Ego and Piercing the Corporate Veil" and participant in "Custody Workshop". Author/Speaker at the 1991 Advanced Family Law Seminar "Discovery Workshop". Speaker for the South Texas Judicial Conference, 1990, on "Significant Family Law Decisions". Author/Speaker for the Marriage Dissolution Institute Seminar on "Drafting and Enforcement of Property Orders," May, 1990. Speaker for the State Bar of Texas, 1989, Seminar entitled Family Law for the Experienced Non-Specialist, on "Guidelines: Support and Visitation". Author/Speaker for the State Bar of Texas, 1988, Seminar entitled Selected Issues in Property and Parent-Child Relationships on "Selected Considerations in Visitation".  

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Frequent DVAP volunteer; Dallas Bar Association "Ask a lawyer"; Artist contributor to the Texas Family Law Foundation, Children's Advocacy Center