Your Post-Divorce Journey Back to Yourself (ePub)

I am a board-certified family law attorney (certified by the Texas Board of Specialization), practicing in the Austin, Texas, area for twenty-one years. I am a child of divorce, I was a stepmother for fourteen years, I am a mother of two teenage boys, and I have now been divorced myself for the past four years. I have seen divorce from most every angle and can truly relate to the emotional struggles of my clients and divorced friends.

I grew up in New City, New York, the oldest of three sisters. I graduated from Clarkstown North High School in 1984 and went to Colgate University in upstate New York. My first job after college was on Wall Street with J. P. Morgan in their mergers and acquisitions department. In the fall of 1990, I started law school at night at New York Law School.

After a year on Wall Street, I decided that Wall Street, New York City, and corporate America were not for me. I decided that I wanted to be in a place that was not as cut-throat competitive, that was slower and friendlier and warmer. I also decided that I wanted to focus on a more personal type of law than corporate. My parents were divorced when I was fourteen, and although it was an amicable divorce, it had a very strong impact on me. I decided that I was much more suited to family law.

I stayed three more years in New York, deciding where I would move when I finished law school. In November of 1992, I visited Austin, Texas, for four days. I loved it and decided that this is where I would move in the summer of 1993, when I only had one semester of law school left. I did my last semester of law school at the University of Texas.

I took the bar in both New York and Texas in February 1994. While I was waiting on my results, I started looking for work. I didn't know where to go, so I met with a local judge (Judge Jeanne Meurer) whom I had appeared in front of as a student attorney. She surprised me and advised me to open my own practice. I couldn't imagine going out on my own

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