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| Practice Areas | Family Law | | | Education | Marquette University Law School, J.D., with honors, 1977, St. Louis University, B.S., with honors, 1967 | | | Admitted | 1977, Wisconsin and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Wisconsin; 1980, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court | |
| Memberships | State Bar of Wisconsin (President, 2002-2003); Milwaukee Bar Association (President, 1995-1996); American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (President, Wisconsin Chapter, 2002-2004); Association for Women Lawyers; Divorce Cooperation Institute; Collaborative Family Law Council of Wisconsin; Fairchild Inns of Court (Master Member). | | | Special Agencies | Office of Lawyer Regulation, District II Committee; Wisconsin Federal Nominating Commission (2005-2006); Governor's Task Force on Ethics Reform in Government (2002). | | | Born | Cincinnati, Ohio, May 1, 1946 | | | Biography | Named: Wisconsin Super Lawyer, Family Law, 2005—; Top 25 Female Lawyers in Wisconsin. Listed in Who's Who of American Women, since 1985-1986 editions. Court Commissioner, Milwaukee County. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® (Family Law, 2008—). Certified Mediator, Kankakee Center for Conflict Resolution. Recent publications: "Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements, Requirement of Financial Disclosure," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, April 2008; Chapter on: "Marital Property" for Wisconsin Practice Series, Methods of Practice, West Publishing, 2004, and 2007 Update; "Non-Traditional Relationships, Co-Habitation, Common Law Marriage, Civil Unions, Domestic Partnerships and Same-Sex Marriage," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, July 2005 (Part I) and October 2005 (Part II); "Legal Separation: Is it a Termination or a Suspension of Marriage?," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, January 2005; "Fair and Enforceable Prenuptial Agreements," 2004 Family Law Update, Aspen Publishers; "Rolling Divorce Settlement Seeds into the Prenup," American Bar Association Journal-Family Advocate, Winter 2002, Vol. 24, No. 3; "Marital Property Agreements: Ineffective Shields Against Spouses' Judgment Creditors," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, January 2002; "Enforceability of Stock Buy-Sell Agreements at Divorce," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, April 2001; "Stock Options in the Dot-Com Economy: Classification, Apportionment and Valuation," Wisconsin Journal of Family Law," July 2000; "Advanced Prenuptial Drafting, " Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, October 2000. Recent Presentations: "Ethics for the Family Lawyer in ADR," presented at the Divorce Cooperation Institute, December 11, 2008; "Negotiating Successful Premarital Agreements," presented at Divorce Wisconsin Style, Wisconsin Chapter American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, March 20, 2008; "Ethics 2000 and the Cooperative Lawyer," Divorce Cooperation Institute, November 30, 2006; "Ethics 2000," Serjeant's Inn, October 19, 2006; "Ethical Pitfalls for the Family Law Attorney, New Case Studies," Divorce Cooperation Institute, December 2, 2005; "Ethical Pitfalls for the Family Law Attorney," Divorce Wisconsin Style, AAML, Wisconsin Chapter, March 17, 2005; "Non-Traditional Relationships, Co-Habitation, Common Law Marriage, Civil Unions, Domestic Partnerships and Same-Sex Marriage" ABA, Family Law Section Annual Meeting, October 22, 2004; "Easier Challenge to Prenuptial Agreements," Divorce Wisconsin Style, AAML Wisconsin Chapter, Milwaukee, WI, March 18, 2004; Guest Lecturer, University of Wisconsin Law School, March 2004; "Advanced Prenuptial Drafting" LEI, Trusts and Estates Seminar, Snowmass, CO, January 8, 2003 and LEI Family Law Seminar, Snowmass, CO, January 7, 2003; "Prenuptial Agreements: Provisions to Ease Enforceability" Madison Estate Council, April 22, 2002, Midwinter Estate Planning Clinic, February 9, 2002 and Milwaukee Estate Planning Council, September 24, 2001; "Pitfalls, Perils and Positives of Prenuptial Agreements" Divorce Wisconsin Style, AAML, Wisconsin Chapter, March 2001; "Stock Options in the Dot-Com Economy: Classification, Apportionment and Valuation" LEI, Family Law Seminar; Vail, Colorado, January 2001; "Trust Assets Subject to Property Division" and "Trust Principal and Income Available for Child Support" Divorce Wisconsin Style, AAML, Wisconsin Chapter, March 1999. Board Member, Marquette Law Alumni Board. Past President, Benedict Center. Past Chair, Village of Shorewood, Board of Review. United Way Finance Division, Past Chair, United Way Personnel Committee. Fellow: Wisconsin Law Foundation (Board of Directors); Milwaukee Bar Association Foundation (Past Director). | | | ISLN | 909278708 | |
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