Lon M. Loveless

  Presentations & Seminars

• Speaker – “Reimbursement” Advanced Family Law (2024)
• Speaker –“Big City Small City Divorce” Marriage Dissolution (2024)
• Course Director – Advanced Family Law (2023)
• Speaker – “How to Use a Forensic Expert in a Divorce Case” Marriage Diss. (2023)
• Speaker – “Drafting Enforceable Orders” Advanced Drafting  (2023)
• Co-Course Director – Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar – Amarillo, TX. (2022)
• Speaker – “The Modification Suit and Associated Challenges” Advanced Family Law (2022)
• Speaker – “Threshold Pleadings” – Marriage Dissolution (2022).
• Speaker – “Tax Issues in Divorce: Identifying Landmines and Traps and Presenting Them to the Court” Advanced Family Law Course (2021).
• Speaker – “What’s My Line? Trial Techniques Using Discovery and Beyond” Marriage Dissolution (2021).
• Speaker – “Preparing the Difficult Client to Testify” Advanced Trial Skills (2020).
• Speaker – “Retirement on the Fly” Advanced Family Law (2020).
• Course Director – Advanced Drafting Dallas, TX. (December 2019)
• Speaker – “Significant Impairment: What it Means and Why You Should Care” Advanced Family Law (2019).
• Co-Course Director – Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar – Longview, TX. (2019)
• Speaker, “Right of Privacy Statutes and Ramifications for Invasion of Privacy” Advanced Family Law (2018).
• Co-Course Director – Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar – Sherman, TX. (2018)
• Speaker, “Unique and Unusual Child Support” Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar (2017).
• Moderator, Beyond the Family Code – Advanced Family Law (2017).
• Speaker, “Marital Property Agreements” Advanced Family Law (2017).
• Course Director – State Bar Annual Meeting – Dallas, TX. (2017)
• Co-Course Director – Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar – San Angelo, TX. (2017)
• Course Director – TAFLS Trial Institute – Charleston, SC. (2017)
• Speaker, “How to Live Long, Be Prosperous, & Be a Professional” Advanced Family Law (2016).
• Speaker, “The Impact of Net Resources on Child Support Cases: Going Above and Below the Guidelines” State Bar of Texas Annual Meeting – (2014)
• Speaker, “Debts, Liability Issues Under Chapter 3, and Effect of Bankruptcy” Marriage Diss. – (2014).
• Speaker, “Hague Convention and Other International Issues”
• Advanced Family Law Course – (2013).
• Speaker, Case Law Update – Property, Tarrant County Family Law Review – Fort Worth, TX. (2012)
• Moderator, Boot Camp – Advanced Family Law (2012)
• Speaker, “Preparing for the Board Certification Exam”
• Advanced Family Law Course – (2012).
• Speaker, “Navigating through CPS: Concerns to Anticipate”
• UT Seminar – Parent-Child Relationships: Critical Thinking for Critical Issues – Austin, TX. (2010).
• Speaker, “Changes in Property Issues and Trends for the Future”
• Advanced Family Law Course – Ch. 29 (2009).
• Attendee, Houston Family Law Trial Institute South Texas College of Law, Houston, TX. (2009).
• Speaker, “Support, Maintenance & Alimony” Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar – San Angelo, TX. (2008).
• Speaker, “Support, Maintenance & Alimony” Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar – Wichita Falls, TX. (2008).
• Speaker, “Family Law Legislative Updates” Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar – Addison, TX. (2007).
• Speaker, “Nobody’s Doin’ What they’re S’posed to… – Enforcing Child Support and Possession Orders”
• Family Law Essentials – Mineral Wells, TX. ( 2007).
• Attendee, Institute for Family Law Associates American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Chicago, IL. (2006).
• Speaker, “Use of Discovery at Trial” Family Law Essentials – Eagle Pass, TX. (2005).
• Speaker, “Responding to Discovery Like You’re Supposed to Under the Rules and what to do if you Don’t” State Bar Annual Meeting, Dallas, TX. (2005).

Published Works

• “Visitation with Children Under Three” Advanced Family Law Course (2010).
• “Application of Child Development Research to Crafting Age-Appropriate Possession Orders for Children Under Three” UT Seminar – Family Law on the Front Lines (2010).
• “The New Parent Coordination/Facilitation Statute: What’s In What’s Out” Marriage Dissolution – Ch. 21 (2010).
• “Parent Coordinators and Parent Facilitators Under the New Statutes” Collin County Bench Bar (2010).
• “The 2 Steps to the 12 Steps: How to Determine if a Parent is a Druggie, a Drunk, or Just Dry” UT Seminar – Parent-Child Relationships: Critical Thinking for Critical Issues (2010).
• “Changes in Property Issues and Trends for the Future” Advanced Family Law – Ch. 29 (2009).
• “Family Law Contracts: Pre and Post Marital Agreements, Divorce Decrees, AID’s, Application of Transactional, Contract and Related Law, Enforcement, Breach, and Contractual Defenses” Advanced Family Law Course – Ch. 37 (2009).
• “Drafting Decree and Closing Documents” Advanced Family Law Course – Ch. 7 (2009).
• “The Sixth Sense: I Hear Voices, But Is The Child Being Heard? (Which Perspective Really Matters to the Court?)” UT Seminar – Parent-Child Relationships: Critical Thinking for Critical Issues (2009).
• “Making the Most of Social Studies and Psychological Evaluations” UT Seminar – Family Law on the Front Lines (2008).
• “Marital Property Agreement: Still Crazy After all These Years” Advanced Family Law Course – Ch. 42 (2007).
• ”Sex, Lies and the Internet: Internet Behavior” UT Seminar – Family Law on the Front Lines (2007).
• “Criminal Law and Civil Litigators: A Review of Three Little Known Federal Statutes and Parallel Prosecution” (2006).
• “We’ll Know it When We See It: The Concept of Good Cause for Failure to Supplement Discovery Responses Under the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure” (2006).

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Member, The Annette Stewart American Inn of Court-Family Law (Treasurer/Program Director)
• Member, Dallas Bar Association – Family Law Section
• Member, Tarrant County Bar Association
• Member, Collaborative Family Solutions
• Member, College of the State Bar of Texas
• Member, Kappa Sigma Fraternity – Alumni