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Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements. Cohabitation Agreement. Welcome to the eBriefcase Management Center. As you assemble your personalized eBriefcase, you may drag to reorder or delete items. Once assembled, you can create a PDF of your eBriefcase. Kathryn J. The Sam Emison Award is one of the most coveted awards in Texas family law. Recipient of the State Bar of Texas Dan Price Award, This award is presented to a lawyer who has had a significant impact on the Family Law Section- teaching, writing and advancing the practice of family law.

This 3-volume set is written for lawyers and Judges, and contains the substantive law regards family law matters, including marital property characterization, tracing, valuation, children and divorce. What is Separate and Community Property? Family Law Discussion, J. Professional Associations American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Fellow, Present Board of Governors, — Texas Chapter Fellow Executive Committee, — President, American Bar Association, Family Law Section Member American College of Trial Lawyers- Fellowship is extended by invitation only to those experienced trial lawyers who have mastered the art of advocacy and whose professional careers have been marked by the highest standards of ethical conduct, professionalism, civility and collegiality.

Karos headed a team of attorneys who defended software designers and manufacturers against accusations that their software products were defectively designed, released to the public with knowledge of the defects, and was done so with the knowledge and intent to harm the consumers of the products.

Telephone Consumer Protection Act: Ms. Karos and her team of attorneys successfully defended a client in a proposed nationwide class action of recipients of unsolicited facsimiles in a relatively new area in the law where the statute presented numerous certification and constitutional issues.

Commercial Litigation Ms. Successfully defended at trial multiple Chicago apparel companies sued for breach of contract. An individual who worked for the predecessor corporation brought suit against Ms.

After deliberating for 10 minutes, the jury returned a take-nothing judgment for Ms. Karos orchestrated commercial lock-outs of tenants, tried forcible entry and detainer actions, sought property damages suffered by Landlords and successfully defended large damage counterclaims brought by former tenants at trial.

Represented insurance companies at trial in several breach of contract, and other contractual remedies including fraud, fraudulent inducement and Texas Deceptive Trade Practices actions brought by policy holders against the companies. Karos and her team exonerated their clients at trial or on appeal. Both companies sued each other on numerous theories including breach of written and oral contracts, fraud, fraudulent inducement, economic duress, and declaratory judgments. Although the jury found the companies liable on certain theories of recovery, that liability was legally excused and Ms.

Represented a debtor, a large diversified building materials company, in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding wherein the debtor case was the largest filed bankruptcy at the time in the Northern District of Texas. In the adversary proceeding that arose from the bankruptcy, the debtor was sued by a French cement manufacturer for deed reformation of a contaminated waste site adjacent to the largest cement manufacturing plant in the United States. The plant, located in Michigan, had been sold by the debtor to the French company years before.

Successfully represented commercial contractors in various matters from contract disputes with owners and subcontractors, defense of defective design claims and construction defect cases.

In each case, although prepared to try the cases to a jury, Ms. Karos and her team were able to successfully achieve a resolution of the claims. She similarly successfully defended the company in several lawsuits in breach of contract litigation in Texas. Representation at trial of an international oil and gas company when sued for multi-millions of dollars on loss of well claims asserted by a drilling operator and land and royalty owners.

After years of litigation culminating in jury selection, Ms. Karos and her team were able to negotiate a beneficial resolution of all claims brought by all parties. In unrelated litigation, Ms. Karos and her team defended and oil rig component part manufacturer in a catastrophic wrongful death case that successfully resolved short of trial. He has been accepted as a member by the American Board of Trial Advocates, which requires more than 50 jury trials. As a mentor to and teacher of other attorneys, Mr.

Fullenweider is a frequent lecturer on family law and civil trial techniques, and has spoken before Bar groups in every major city in America. He is also the author of more than 75 legal papers and articles.