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by

Douglas Woodburn

Chair, Family Law Section

Dear Family Law Section Members:

I hope you enjoy the Web Site for the Section. We are proud to say that the Family Law Section of the State Bar has nearly 5,000 members. The Section and its leadership, the Family Law Council, has a long tradition of innovation, information, and education to the members of our Section as well as the Bar itself. Incredibly, next year, 2010, is the 50 year anniversary of the founding of the Section. We have been blessed throughout the years with dedicated leaders committed to the practice of Family Law throughout the State.

This years’ Advanced Course hosted by Lynn Kamin and Heather King will be in Dallas at the Hyatt Regency Hotel August 3-6. Golf will be available Sunday at the Dallas Cowboy Golf Club, and this year’s Party promises to be the best ever. The Texas Family Law Foundation will host their annual Auction as well as the Style Show. The Advanced Course is a great chance to meet up with friends and colleagues for education and fellowship. Please plan to attend.

Membership in the Section entitles you to a number of enhancements to your practice. In addition to the Section Report, which timely reports in digest form every Family Law case that is decided by our Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court, every member receives free of additional charge the 2009 Tool Kit. The Tool Kit is a quick reference that you can carry with you to Court and depositions with subjects such as current child support tables, calendars, objections, predicates, expert witness testimony, contempt and many others, each available at your fingertip.

Membership in the Section is essential to attorneys who dabble in Family Law, practice Family Law extensively, or make Family Law their sole area of practice. Please consider joining us.

Douglas Woodburn, chair