About
I am an experienced own family law legal professional with a law exercise broadly speaking focused on divorce, toddler custody, toddler assist, and pre-nuptial and publish-nuptial agreements. After nearly thirty-5 years of practice, I even have the understanding, talent, and endurance it takes to help people through what can be a hard transition of their lifestyles. Most instances settle with out court and my exercise focuses on retaining clients out of courtroom, if viable, via using the collaborative regulation process, mediation, or conventional negotiation. I have completed the primary collaborative law schooling and have more than 100 hours of additional collaborative regulation schooling. I additionally have completed a forty hour direction in Basic Mediation Training - Divorce and Family Conflicts and many hours of extra mediation education. I am a founding member (in 2006) of the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania. I helped set up the Collaborative Law Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) and served as its first chairperson from January 2012 till May 2014. I changed into given a Distinguished Service Award (2012) by the PBA for helping to set up the committee. I become a principle drafter of Pennsylvania s Collaborative Law Act which became signed into law in June 2018. I turned into given a second Distinguished Service Award (2018) by way of the PBA for my 5 years of labor on the new law. I were a sole practitioner due to the fact that January 1, 2011. Prior to that, I labored for two big circle of relatives law litigation corporations in Pittsburgh (2001-2010) and for extra widespread practice regulation offices (1985-2001). I graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1985. I am admitted to practice law in Virginia (1985) and Pennsylvania (1987). › ›
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- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration
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Graduation year: 1982
Graduation year: 1982
