Jessica Watson
Attorney at Law

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Friday, October 10th 2008

...in Family Law


High Court to Hear Arguments on ERISA Beneficiary Designation
Law.com (subscription), CA - Oct 3, 2008
South Texas College of Law professor James Paulsen, who teaches courses on family law, marital property and federal courts, says Kennedy v. ...

A Sister in Spirit
Law.com (subscription), CA - Oct 3, 2008
It's an acumen O'Reilly says comes courtesy of family law. "I spend all day looking at people's assets, participating in discussions about valuation," she ...

Jackson says she's been a fighter since youth
Ventura County Star, CA - Oct 5, 2008
She was 48 when elected to the Assembly, shifting careers after practicing law for more than two decades, mostly as a family law attorney in a small firm ...

Mom Logic

Democrat + Republican = Marital Bliss
Mom Logic, CA - Oct 7, 2008
Stacy D. Phillips, managing partner at Phillips, Lerner, Lauzon & Jamra, Los Angeles, is a certified family law specialist and author of "Divorce: It's All ...

Parents and Children: The Family, Law and Society - A ...
Business Wire (press release), CA - 4 hours ago
The volume includes a substantial introduction by the editor. Andrew Bainham is a Reader in Family Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge.

Candidate's private life becomes very public
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, CA - Oct 4, 2008
Adamson acknowledged being "sick" of the lengthy family law case that has cost her more than $100000 in attorney fees, resulting in financial difficulties. ...

Bogus divorce attorney convicted of theft and fraud
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV), AZ - 7 hours ago
A jury convicted a bogus divorce attorney Thursday for scamming dozens of victims in the Valley out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. ...
Man who impersonated divorce attorney convicted of fraud and theft KOLD-TV
Bogus divorce attorney found guilty of theft, fraud KTAR.com
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amNewYork

Supermodel Christie Brinkley's restraining order request denied
amNewYork, New York - 15 hours ago
BY NIA-MALIKA HENDERSON | nia.henderson@newsday.com Model Christie Brinkley filed papers Wednesday to get a restraining order against her ex-husband. ...

Divorce Attorney Offers Healthy Tips to Couples of Differing ...
MarketWatch - Oct 3, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Oct 03, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Stacy D. Phillips, celebrity divorce attorney, says that many personal relationships suffer during ...

WiredPRNews.com (press release)

North Carolina Divorce Lawyer Explains Infidelity in Divorce
WiredPRNews.com (press release), TX - Oct 6, 2008
North Carolina Divorce attorney - Carole Gailor on The Cheating Game. Raleigh, North Carolina (Press Release WiredPRNews.com) An unfortunate fact of ...

Erin McLean may face jail time
Knoxville News Sentinel, TN - Oct 8, 2008
Divorce attorney Steve Sharp leveled the contempt allegations in a petition served on Erin McLean Wednesday during her highly anticipated first court ...

People: Madonna and A-Rod dine in New York
Denver Post, CO - Oct 3, 2008
Their relationship came to light a week after The Times of London reported that Madonna met with high-powered British divorce attorney Fiona Shackleton, ...

Judge's secretary paid his gambling debts
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com, LA - Oct 5, 2008
Porteous signed the final decree in that case, and her divorce attorney, Don Gardner, is a longtime Porteous friend who gave money to the judge at various ...

Tenn. teacher in Texas after teen lover was slain
Elizabethton Star, TN - Oct 3, 2008
His divorce attorney, Steve Sharp, told The Knoxville News Sentinel that Eric McLean hasn't seen his children since Erin McLean left. ...

Patrick J. O'Malley Get 15 Months in Prison for Obsenity Charge
Fox 8 News WJW, OH - Oct 3, 2008
Vicky O'Malley has shared custody of the couples children, but motions filed by her divorce attorney with federal court, indicate she will attempt to gain ...

About Celebrity Worship
Dayton Daily News, OH - Oct 3, 2008
Their relationship came to light, a week after The Times of London reported that Madonna met with high-powered British divorce attorney Fiona Shackleton, ...

...in Adoption Law


$5000+ Up For Grabs: Competition Explores Embryo Donation ...
MarketWatch - Sep 30, 2008
FULLERTON, Calif., Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Law students nation-wide are being challenged to participate in a writing competition as a way to create ...

Florida adoption law has new challenge
United Press International - Oct 1, 2008
MIAMI, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- A gay Florida man resumed his effort Wednesday to adopt two half-brothers who have been living in his foster home since 2004. ...
Steve Rothaus MiamiHerald.com
Florida's gay adoption ban faces court challenge MiamiHerald.com
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Proud Parenting

Florida's gay adoption ban faces court challenge in Miami
Proud Parenting - Oct 6, 2008
Now, a month after a Key West judge declared Florida's gay adoption law unconstitutional in a separate but narrow case, Gill and a team of lawyers from the ...

It's the judges who need a legal guardian
Daily Inter Lake, MT - Oct 5, 2008
This wasn'ta case about sexual preference; it was a case about adoption law about what the law permits and what it doesn't permit. ...

Ohioans win awards in DC for adoption efforts
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Sep 16, 2008
Meanwhile, Angela Upchurch and Denise St. Clair of the National Center for Adoption Law and Policy were honored, on behalf of Capital University Law School, ...

Men are allowed opinions on abortion
Arizona Republic, AZ - Sep 27, 2008
He has continued with me in full partnership as parent and husband while I practiced law, including adoption law, for the last 22 years. ...

More than 180 nationwide honored for advocacy work
Columbus Dispatch, OH - Sep 19, 2008
Meanwhile, Angela Upchurch and Denise St. Clair of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy at Capital University Law School were honored for 10 years ...

Washington recognizes Rock Hill's 'Angel in Adoption'
Rock Hill Herald, SC - Sep 24, 2008
Dove, married with one grown daughter, has worked on more than 1000 adoptions in more than 20 years of adoption law practice, a practice so specialized that ...

Massachusetts Briefings: Sept. 23
Providence Journal, RI - Sep 22, 2008
Topics will include nondirective, noncoercive counseling techniques, special issues in counseling teens, adoption law and practice in Massachusetts and ...

For gay father, adoption ruling is `a defining moment'
MiamiHerald.com, FL - Sep 23, 2008
''Chief among the interests served by Florida's adoption law is the best interest of Florida children,'' Assistant Attorney General Valerie J. Martin has ...

...in Dependency Law


Arkansas may allow same-sex foster parents
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 6 hours ago
Beebe spokesman Matt DeCample said that the governor supports the proposed change and that he changed his mind primarily because of a lack of foster care. ...

Bay Area gallery displays adoption photos
abc7news.com, CA - Oct 8, 2008
Human Services Agency. This is the third year the heart gallery is reaching out to the community. It's a collaborative effort by the human services agencies ...

French Valley jury hears different portrayals of minister accused ...
Press-Enterprise, CA - Oct 3, 2008
... while living in San Diego County, by an agency that specialized in placing troubled children. "False allegations happen in the foster care system. ...

Illegal Ways to Avoid the Border Wait
San Diego Reader, CA - Oct 8, 2008
And they try to figure out where the parents are, and then maybe they turn the kids over to foster care in Mexico. Imagine the separation that occurs in ...

Fostering warm feelings
Daily Breeze, CA - Oct 4, 2008
About 18000 children are in foster care now in Los Angeles County, including 2300 in the Torrance and South Bay service area. ...

CWLA Cheers President Bush for Signing Child Welfare Legislation
NewsBlaze, CA - Oct 7, 2008
CWLA is the trusted authority for professionals who work with children and the only national organization with public and private member agencies working ...

Iowa girl, 14, left at hospital
Santa Rosa Press Democrat, CA - Oct 9, 2008
... which holds her now, and end up in foster care. Or, they said, she could be transferred to Iowa's child agency, or be returned to her home. ...

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