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Firm Announcement:
1. FMBK WELCOME SUMMER ASSOCIATES: MATTHEW SKARIN AND TAYLOR BOUCHARD
2. FMBK SPONSORS THE HARRIET BUHAI CENTER’S ANNUAL THEATER BENEFIT

Useful Articles:
1. DIVORCE LAWYERS/ATTORNEYS: Your divorce team
2. CHILDREN AND DIVORCE: Conflict & parenting: customize your post-separation parenting relationship
3. RELATIONSHIPS: Reinventing relationships
4. MEDIATION: Family-centered divorce
5. HEALTH/WELL-BEING: Waiting for change

FMBK WELCOME SUMMER ASSOCIATES:
MATTHEW SKARIN AND TAYLOR BOUCHARD

Matthew Skarin

Taylor Bouchard

Matthew Skarin and Taylor Bouchard survived an extremely rigorous selection process to become FMBK's 2008 Summer Associates. The two were chosen out of a pool of 140 applicants.

This year's Summer Associate Program was designed by Partner Toni Acosta and Associate Evan Okamura. Both Toni and Evan began their career at FMBK in the file center and worked their way up through Law School. With this experience in mind, they wanted to create a special training program for the Summer Associates, which includes: legal research, legal writing, client interaction, and attending, mediations, trials, depositions, and court appearances. In addition, the Summer Associates have a busy social calendar, including attorney lunches and events.

Steve Mindel, Laura Wasser, Jerry Kline

At the benefit, the Harriet Buhai Center For Family Law presented attorney Laura Wasser with the prestigious Zephyr M. Ramsey Award. (Steve Mindel and Jerry Kline are shown, above, with Laura Wasser). The evening concluded with a performance of "A Chorus Line" at the Ahmanson Theater.

1. DIVORCE LAWYERS/ATTORNEYS
Your divorce team
How to find and choose the best possible advisors to help you.
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Divorce_Lawyers/yourdivorceteam.html

2. CHILDREN AND DIVORCE
Conflict & parenting: customize your post-separation parenting relationship
When you go to the library or browse through a book store, there are many books for divorcing parents, most of which have some version of the following message: "You must communicate with the other parent for the children's sake, no matter how you feel about him/her."
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Children_and_Divorce/conflict_parenting.html

3. RELATIONSHIPS
Reinventing relationships
Your marital relationship is over, but what about your relationship with your in-laws, their relationship with your children, or even your relationship with your ex-spouse's new Significant Other? What is healthy and appropriate? Since no one has written the new rules and codes of social conduct for relationships engendered by divorce, we asked some experts to share their insights with us.
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Relationships/reinventingrelationships.html

4. MEDIATION
Family-centered divorce
Divorce is never easy on a family, but the use of divorce mediation, rather than the adversarial process, can enable divorcing couples to approach the divorce from a family-centered perspective, making constructive plans for parenting after divorce.
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Mediation/family-centered-divorce.html

5. HEALTH/WELL-BEING
Waiting for change
Each of us has an amazing facility to change our experience instantly simply by altering our perception. Stop waiting for a miracle -- expect one.
http://www.divorcemag.com/c/s3/?Health_Well_Being/waitingforchange.html

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