University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A in accounting, with honors, 1978; University of Texas at Austin, J.D. 1981; Associate Editor, Texas International Law Journal 1980-81; Certified Public Accountant--Texas; Law Clerk, The Honorable Robert O’Conor, Jr., Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Law Clerk, The Honorable Ross N. Sterling, Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Editor-in-Chief, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, 2017, 15th Annual Family Law Seminar course book entitled “Beating the Odds.” This is scheduled for February 24, 2017. Editor-in-Chief, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, February 26, 2016,14th Annual Family Law Seminar course book entitled “Avoiding the Crash in Your Family Law Case.” Editor-in-Chief, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, February 27, 2015, 13th Annual Family Law Seminar course book entitled “Stay in Touch with Your Ex.” Editor-in-Chief, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, February 28, 2014, 12th Annual Family Law Seminar course book entitled “The Cowboy Rides Away – A Tribute to George Strait” Editor-in-Chief, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, March 1,2013, 11th Annual Family Law Seminar course book entitled “You Give Love a Bad Name”. Editor-in-Chief, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, March 4, 2011, 9th Annual Family Law Seminar course book entitled “My Ex is Always on My Mind” Co-course Director with Amber Liddell Alwais and Kim Pettit, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, February 19, 2010, 8th Annual Family Law Seminar entitled “I Miss My Ex, But My Aim is Getting Better”. Co-course Director with Amber Liddell Alwais and Dayla Pepi, February 27, 2009, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, 7th Annual Family Law Seminar entitled “Going Through the Big ‘D’ and We Don’t Mean Dallas.” Co-course Director with Charles Hardy, San Antonio Bar Association Family Law Section, March 3, 2006, 4th Annual Family Law Seminar entitled “The New Law & Thinking Outside the Box”.
Bibliography and Presentations:
San Antonio Estate Planners Council “Best Practices in the Bexar County Probate Courts for Frequently Filed Cases”, presented with Martin Collins on February 11, 2016.
Mexican American Bar Association, “It Ain’t Cool To be Crazy About You” New Frontiers Future of Same Sex Marriage in Texas”, presented on April 8, 2014.
San Antonio Bar Association, 12th Annual Extreme Family Law Makeover “It Ain’t Cool To be Crazy About You: New Frontiers Future of Same Sex Marriage in Texas”, presented on February 28, 2014.
San Antonio Bar Association, Probate Group Meeting, “Characterization Methods for Separate and Community Property in Probate”, presented on July 13, 2012.
San Antonio Bar Association, Family Law Section, “Analysis of Proposed New Local Rules and New Local Orders”, presented in panel discussion with Pedro V. Hernandez, Jr. and Amber Liddell Alwais, on April 17, 2012.
San Antonio Bar Association, Elder Law Section, “Report on the Texas Access to Justice Commission and the Supreme Court Uniform Forms Task Force” presented on February 24, 2012.
San Antonio Bar Association, Family Law Section Monthly Meeting “Bankruptcy and Family Law”, presented on July 20, 2010.
San Antonio Bar Association, 8th Annual Seminar, Extreme Family Law Practice Makeover VIII, Economic Contribution: Is it Gone or Just Hiding, presented on February 19, 2010.
Corpus Christi Bar Association, 2009 Family Law Seminar, The New and Improved Reimbursement, presented on October 2, 2009.
San Antonio Bar Association, 7th Annual Seminar, Extreme Family Law Practice Makeover VII, “Hey! Give it Back -- Reimbursement”, presented on February 27, 2009.
San Antonio Bar Association, 6th Annual Seminar, Extreme Family Law Practice Makeover VI, Economic Contribution, presented on February 29, 2008.
Lorman Seminars, Debts and Marital Dissolution: The Family Code v. The Bankruptcy Code (an analysis of in rem and in personam liability), scheduled for presentation on January 8, 2008.
San Antonio Bar Association, 5th Annual Seminar, Extreme Family Law Practice Makeover V!, Sedative or Panacea: Tax Returns presented March 2, 2007.
San Antonio Bar Association, 4th Annual Seminar, Extreme Family Law Practice Makeover IV!, Bankruptcy One Option” presented on March 3, 2006.
Lorman Seminars on Ethics, Trial & Pretrial Ethics, presented on March 8, 2005.
San Antonio Bar Association, Extreme Family Law Practice Makeover, “In A Fix” Bankruptcy & Divorce: Discharging Family Obligation in Bankruptcy” presented on June 25, 2004.
(Board Certified, Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization)
