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Continuing Legal Education
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Parenting Plans Rainier Square Conference Center
1301 Fifth Avenue, Third Floor Atrium Seattle, Washington
April 29, 2011 8:30am-4:15pm
6.25 General CLE Credits Approved (approval #284 413)
Updated August 2007
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KING COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION
Parenting Plans
Rainier Square Conference Center, 1301 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, Washington April 29th, 2011; 8:30am – 4:15pm
6.25 General CLE Credits Approved Approval # 284 413
Hours of Attendance:
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Updated August 2007
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King County Bar Association 2011
The materials and forms in the course materials are published by the King County Bar Association exclusively for the use of Washington attorneys. Neither the King County Bar Association nor the contributors make either express or implied warranties in regard to the use of the materials and/or forms. Each attorney must depend upon his or her own legal knowledge and expertise in the use or modification of these materials. The view and conclusions expressed herein are those of the contributors and are not necessarily those of the King County Bar Association or any division or committee thereof.
The King County Bar Association
would like to thank
the Chairs of this program:
Raegen N. Rasnic Skellenger Bender, P.S.
Seattle, Washington
Shana Thompson Law Offices of Shana E. Thompson
Seattle, Washington
Volunteers make our programs the best in the business. We appreciate all of the hard work and effort that goes into every
Continuing Legal Education program by the volunteer chairs and faculty.
PARENTING PLANS Rainier Square Conference Center, 1301 Fifth Avenue, 3rd Floor Atrium, Seattle
April 29th, 2011 6.25 General CLE Credits Approved
AGENDA 8:00-8:30am Registration and Coffee Service 8:30-8:35am Introduction & Overview
Program Chairs: Raegen N. Rasnic, Skellenger Bender, P.S.
Shana Thompson, Law Offices of Shana E. Thompson
8:35-9:35am Developmentally Appropriate Parenting Plans
Dr. Wendy Hutchins-Cook, Ph.D., ABPP Stacy Heard, The Law Offices of Stacy D. Heard
9:35-10:35am “Unpacking 50/50”- Myths & Realities of Shared Parenting
Janet Helson, Skellenger Bender, P.S. Raegen Rasnic, Skellenger Bender, P.S.
10:35-10:45am Break 10:45-12:00pm Child Focused & Child Informed Mediation
Jayne Hulsey, MPH, LMHC Kelly Shanks, M.Ed., LMCH
12:00-1:00pm Lunch on your own 1:00-2:00pm Temporary Parenting Plans: Tips on What the Bench Wants
to Know From Attorneys When Requesting the Same The Honorable Lori K. Smith, Commissioner, King County Superior Court
2:00-3:00pm Schedules in Parenting Plans
Nancy Hawkins, Attorney at Law 3:00-3:15pm Break 3:15-4:15pm Attribution of Parenting Plan Disputes (Pre and Post-
Decree) and De Novo Review David Law, Skellenger Bender, P.S.
4:15pm Evaluations and Adjourn
Faculty Biographies 1 of 7
Parenting Plans April 29, 2011
FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES
Faculty Biographies 2 of 7
PROGRAM CHAIRS
RAEGEN N. RASNIC Skellenger Bender, P.S.
1301 Fifth Ave Suite 3401 Seattle, WA 98101
[email protected] RAEGEN N. RASNIC is a principal in the firm. She focuses her practice on family law, adoption and assisted reproduction, and the defense of medical and mental health professionals in licensing and disciplinary proceedings. She is admitted to practice in the federal and state courts of Washington. Raegen is a Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and serves as Secretary of the Academy’s Board of Trustees. She is a member of the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Law Attorneys, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, and the Washington State Psychological Association. She teaches Adoption Law as an Adjunct Professor at Seattle University School of Law. Raegen is an active member of Legal Voice (formerly the Northwest Women's Law Center), and has served on its Legal Committee since 1998. Raegen is past chair of the King County Bar Association's Judicial Screening Committee.
SHANA E. THOMPSON
Law Offices of Shana E. Thompson 6814 Greenwood Ave N Seattle, WA 98103
SHANA E. THOMPSON received her J.D. from Seattle University School of Law in 1999 and is a family law practitioner. Shana has served on the CLE advisory committee board of the KCBA for several years. Beginning in 2002, Shana was a board member of the South King County Bar Association and finished her years of service as President from 2006 – 2007. Shana has been actively involved in volunteering for the neighborhood family law legal clinics, both in Kent and Greenwood, for the past ten years.
Faculty Biographies 3 of 7
FACULTY
NANCY HAWKINS Attorney at Law
6814 Greenwood Ave N Seattle, WA 98103
NANCY HAWKINS received her undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in 1979 and her law degree from the University of Puget Sound Law School in 1981. She is a sole practitioner who concentrates her practice in the areas of family law, estate planning and personal injury. She is a former chair of the King County Bar Association Family Law Section. She is a frequent speaker at legal seminars on family law issues. She is a chapter author of the Washington State Bar Association’s Family Law Desk book.
STACY HEARD The Law Office of Stacy D. Heard, PLLC
1424 Fourth Ave Suite 608 Seattle, WA 98101
STACY HEARD is an attorney who practices exclusively family law in Seattle, Washington. Stacy has served clients for nearly 20 years in the Seattle area. Prior to and during law school, Stacy worked as a family law and civil litigation paralegal. Her broad experience in family law includes cases involving complex financial issues, parenting plan/child custody issues, relocation, restraining orders, and child support issues. Prior to starting her own practice in 2005, she worked at a large Seattle civil litigation firm where she also gained valuable negotiation and litigation experience. Stacy is a 1990 graduate of the University of Oregon, with honors, and a 1998 graduate of Seattle University School of Law. She is a member of the Washington State Bar Association, Oregon State Bar Association, King County Bar Association, American Bar Association, Washington Women's Lawyers, and QLaw, the GLBT Bar Association of Washington. She is also a volunteer attorney for the King County Bar Association Kinship Care Solutions and Lawyer's Fostering Independence and is a former volunteer for the King County Bar Association Family Law/Domestic Violence Clinic. She received Pro Bono Publico Service Commendations from the WSBA in 2008 and 2009 (50+ hours of pro bono public service) and has been recognized as a "Rising Star" by Washington Law and Politics three years in a row. Stacy is also on the Board of Homeward Pet Adoption Center, the largest no-kill animal shelter in the state.
Faculty Biographies 4 of 7
JANET HELSON Skellenger Bender, P.S.
1301 Fifth Ave Suite 3401 Seattle, WA 98101
JANET HELSON received her law degree from the University of California Berkeley in 1989. In practice in Washington since 1992, she joined Skellenger Bender in 2004. Janet has particular expertise in parenting issues, including domestic violence, the Relocation Act, interstate jurisdiction, de facto parent, and nonparental custody. Janet serves on the National Family Law Advisory Council of the National Center For Lesbian Rights; her practice includes advising and representing LGBT clients on family law issues. Janet served on the Washington State Bar Association Family Law Executive Committee from 2001 to 2007, has served as a pro tem family law commissioner, and is a frequent presenter at family law seminars on parenting issues.
JAYNE HULSEY MPH, LMHC
1122 E Pike Street Suite 1229 Seattle, WA 98122 [email protected]
JAYNE HULSEY, MPH University of Washington 1987, after eight years with Family Court Services for the King County Superior Court, has been in private practice since 1998 providing mediation, arbitration, evaluation, counseling, consultation and Title 26 guardian ad litem services. She has handled more than 500 mediations and 400 parenting plan evaluations and domestic violence assessments. Jayne is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Washington State and has been a presenter and coach at various professional forums since 1994. She conducts agreed and court-ordered parenting plan evaluations to determine the best outcome for the children, mediates with parents in developing or modifying parenting plans, provides reunification and co-parenting counseling for parents and children, and serves as a team member in collaborative divorce cases and as an arbitrator of parenting plan conflicts.
Faculty Biographies 5 of 7
WENDY HUTCHINS-COOK Ph.D., ABFP/ABPP
411 University Street Suite 1200 Seattle, WA 98101
WENDY HUTCHINS-COOK, Ph.D., ABFP/ABPP received her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Washington in 1983. She received Board Certification in Forensic Psychology in 2006 from the American Board of Professional Psychology. Dr. Hutchins-Cook serves on the Clinical Faculties of the University Of Washington Department Of Psychology and the Medical School Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Hutchins-Cook is in private practice. She is regularly appointed by the court as a parenting evaluator, and testifies as an expert in child and family matters. She presents regularly for the King County Bar Association.
DAVID S. LAW Skellenger Bender P.S.
1301 Fifth Ave Suite 3401 Seattle, WA 98101
DAVID LAW is a principal in the firm. He is admitted to practice in the federal and state courts of Washington. David focuses his practice on family law litigation. David is a past chair of the Family Law Section of the King County Bar Association and has served on the Executive Committee of the Washington State Bar Association Family Law Section. David served on a taskforce organized by the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence and the Northwest Women's Law Center that helped draft comprehensive revisions to the civil protection order statute and he assisted in the redrafting of those portions of the Parenting Act that require court mandated restrictions for sex offenders. David served for several years as co-chair of the Legislation Subcommittee of the Family Law Section of the King County Bar Association. David is co-author of the chapter "Pretrial Motions Practice" in the Washington Family Law Desk book (2d. ed. 2000). He has been an instructor at the annual Washington Bar Association Family Law Skills Institute and a speaker at seminars to professional and lay groups on topics including civil contempt and parenting plan and child support modifications. David volunteers as a member of the Legal Committee of the Northwest Women's Law Center, where he has also served as a cooperating attorney. B.A., Psychology, Swarthmore College, 1990; J.D., Northeastern University School of Law, 1992.
Faculty Biographies 6 of 7
KELLY SHANKS M.Ed., LMHC
2910 East Madison Street, Suite 110
Seattle, WA 98112 [email protected]
KELLY SHANKS, M.Ed., LMHC is a psychotherapist and mediator. She worked for King County Superior Court for many years in the Dependency CASA, Family Court Services and Unified Family Court programs. After leaving the Court in 2006, Kelly has been in private practice providing child-focused mediation, parenting evaluations and adult psychotherapy. She developed and taught the curriculum for the King County Family Law seminar "What about the Children?" for many years. A major focus of her work is helping parents build or regain a healthy post-separation alliance through child focused and child inclusive mediation. Kelly is a clinical associate at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, has a post-graduate certificate from the UW in effective treatment of psychological trauma and training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Last fall she traveled to Australia for clinical training with Jennifer McIntosh in Child Inclusive Family Dispute Resolution.
THE HONORABLE LORI K. SMITH Commissioner, King County Superior Court
516 Third Avenue C203 Seattle, WA 98104
[email protected] COMMISSIONER LORI K. SMITH graduated from Eastern Washington University with a degree in Criminal Justice. She attended the University Of Washington School of law and obtained an internship with the King County Prosecutor’s Office Family Support Division. She stayed there for 20 years and became the Lead Senior Deputy in the Paternity Section and later was made the Managing Attorney for the Kent Office. In 2005, Commissioner Smith was appointed to her current position by the King County Superior Court Judges. She has presided over civil commitment trials, domestic violence protection order hearings, family law motions calendars, the State contempt of court and child support calendars and the Trial by Affidavit Calendar. She has also conducted settlement conferences and served as a trial judge pro tem. She is currently the chair of the Unified Family Court Training Oversight Committee.