AAML Fellow since 2006; Certified as NM Family Law Specialist since 2002; Member of NM, Albuquerque Collaborative, and Southwest Collaborative Divorce Practice Groups; Board Member of Albuquerque Rotary Club and member since 2004; Southwest Super Lawyers, Family Law since 2008; Best Lawyers in America, Family Law since 2009; ABA Family Law Section Past Activities (Region V Representative to Council; Chair or Co-Chair of Product Development, Marital Property and Taxation Committees); NM Delegate to 13th-18th and 23rd Annual Symposium of Family Law Council of Community Property States – writing and presenting property topics at each meeting; Former Chair, Family Law Section, NM State Bar. Issue Editor of Summer 2004 FLQ on Alimony and Chapter Author of Alimony for Judge’s Benchbook (2011). I have handled 7 Hague trials, including presenting psychological evidence allowing removal parent to retain child in New Mexico, and have secured return of children in 4 other cases.
