ABOUT ME
I was raised on a farm in East Central Illinois with six
siblings, and enlisted in the Army for four years in late
1966 to avoid the draft. I was trained as a North Vietnamese
Linguist, and spent a year in Viet Nam, with a year in Japan
and a side-trip to Thailand for three months. After the
service I worked for three years as a deputy sheriff in
Northern California, which triggered my desire to become an
attorney.
I’ve been involved in all aspects of family law litigation
since early 1981, with the primary emphasis on custody
cases, and I’ve helped a number of families with parental
terminations / step-parent and private adoption issues. With
the lack of legislative guidelines, I created on-demand drug
testing standards for family law cases in 1986 and began
suggesting them in several counties. I also hosted an
hour-long weekly call-in talk show on a local Christian AM
radio station from 1987 to 1994, and have occasionally
testified in the legislature on varying issues. I’ve also
hosted a number of parental rights seminars, and should have
my first book on family law litigation in print by the end
of 2008. It’s titled The Lighted Switch and should be
available on my website shortly.
Professionally, I’ve been a member of the nationwide
Christian Legal Society since 1976, and was the Sacramento
area lead attorney in the 1994 statewide lawsuits against
the California Department of Education to stop the wholesale
invasion of parental and children’s rights with the
California Learning Assessment Tests, known as the CLAS
tests.
Personally, I’ve helped launch two children and three
step-children, and began writing poetry in February of 1997.
I learned the absolute necessity of surrendering my will to
God in 1976 and currently attend a local Covenant church
with my family. I’m currently working on four more books for
strengthening marriages.
Requests for speaking engagements about family law matters
or divorce recovery workshops or for seminars on these
topics are invited. My deepest desire is to show teens and
young married couples the path to great marital
relationships that thrive the way God intended for us to
live.
