Memberships
Allegheny County (Member: Family Law Section; Section President Council; Chair, Legislation Committee; Member, Headquarters Committee, 1987—; Special Fee Dispute Committee, 1986—; Children's Issues Committee, 1989—), Pennsylvania (Member, Family Law Section, Section Council; Children's Rights Committee) and American (Section Council; Co-Chair, Committees on: Congressional Relations; Custody) Bar Associations; American Inns of Court
Biographical
Author: Monitoring and Closing Cases, Fair, The Matrimonial Monthly, Vol. 20, No. 6, June, 2000; Elian Go Home, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Vol. 22, No. 1, April 2000; Examining the Parties-Crafting Your Case with Care, Family Advocate, Vol. 21, No. 4, Spring 1999; Joint Custody: The Pendulum Swings, The GPPA Report, January/February 1998; DIVORCE: Protecting the Business, Dynamic Business, November 1997; When Bad Families Happen to Good Children, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Vol. 19, No. 3, October 1997; Divorcing the Elderly: Special Issues, American Journal of Family Law, Vol. 10, No. 2, Summer, 1996; Rowles - A Crack in the Dam, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, March, 1996; Securing Your Safety Net, Family Advocate, Vol. 18, No. 3, March, 1996; Representing the Dependent Spouse of a Small Business Owner, Fair, The Matrimonial Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 9, September, 1993; How to Cross-Examine a Psychologist in a Custody Case, American Journal of Family Law, Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer, 1993; Commonwealth v. The Psychologists, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Vol. XIII, No. 6, December, 1992; The Faults with No-Fault: 10 Years of No-Fault, The Pennsylvania Lawyer, December, 1990; Ensuring the Insurance, Family Advocate, Fall, 1990; No-Fault Divorce, ABA Journal, November, 1989; The Importance of Being Nice: Estrangement in the Educational Support Case, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Vol. X, No. 6, December, 1989; What's Wrong with the Proposed Support Guidelines, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, Vol. X, No. I, January, 1989; Pennsylvania Fashions an Approach to Surrogacy, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer Vol. IX, No. II, April, 1988. Co-Author: Family Law in Pennsylvania, Legal Education Institute, Inc., 1988. Lecturer: Fundamentals of Family Law, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2003); Family Law Practice in Western Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2003); Trial of a Custody Case, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (1998); Essentials of Pennsylvania Practice, Pennsylvania Bar Institute