Congratulations to Harriett Buhai Center board member Stephanie Barnett, whose article “The Uncertainty of Spousal Support Waivers” was published in The Recorder last month. Barnett is a senior associate with Beverly Hills-based family law firm Jaffe and Clemens, and has been a Center board member since last year. Barnett’s article discusses the evolution of spousal
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The Harriett Buhai Center staff extends a warm, and well-deserved, congratulations to board member David Ettinger for his featured profile in the Pro Bono section of Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine. Ettinger, a Center board member since 1997, is an appellate attorney practicing in Los Angeles who handles family law cases on appeal for the
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In the simple surroundings of the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, four women—former and current clients of the Center– gathered around a table with philanthropist and former First Lady of California, Maria Shriver (pictured left with Harriett Buhai Center Executive Director Betty Nordwind). A journalist by trade, Shriver eased the women into a conversation
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“So there I was, 40 years old, close to broke, with two children, and no way of making a living,” said author Judy Resnick, in an excerpt from her new book “I’m On My Own, And So Are You.” By her own description Judy was “raised to be a wife and mother.” After her divorce,
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Four women from very different walks of life met at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law to give back to their local community. Imbued with a mutual spirit of service and compelled by an interest in family law, volunteer attorneys Karen Rosin, Holly Leonard, Nora Kavner and Mercy Fresno (pictured from left to right), collectively dedicated
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