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Dec 1, 2024 | 
cityviewnc.com | Teri Saylor
‘Tis the season for gathering with friends and family to share a meal and exchange gifts. But the holiday season also brings bittersweet memories for those who are reflecting on loved ones no longer collected around the table or opening presents under the Christmas tree.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
nclawyersweekly.com | Teri Saylor
By Teri SaylorThere’s little more exciting in a paralegal’s professional life than hearing her or his name called out during an awards ceremony, the hallmark of involvement in professional associations. In 2024, the Legal Staff Professionals of South Carolina, the South Carolina Upstate Paralegal Association and the Paralegal Division of the North Carolina Bar Association welcomed their newest outstanding paralegals.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
cityviewnc.com | Teri Saylor
Emotions bubble to the surface when Antonio Jones describes how his father’s love has carried over to his own life as a husband and father. He’s passing those values down to his own sons, Joel Marquez Jones and Antonio Bernard Jones. “I remember growing up in Linden, a rural area between Cumberland and Harnett counties,” he recalled. “We lived right beside the road, and I was always busy and keeping active.”Antonio grew up the ninth child in a large family with his parents and 11 siblings.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
molawyersmedia.com | Teri Saylor
Tricia Scaglia sits on The Missouri Bar’s Board of Governors and the Missouri Supreme Court’s Committee for Access to Family Courts. A past president of the Association for Women Lawyers of Greater Kansas City, she was named this year to the Greater Kansas City Local Investment Commission. Scaglia earned the Roger P. Krumm Family Law Award in 2012 and was a Women’s Justice Awards honoree from Missouri Lawyers Media in 2019. Also in 2019, KCMBA awarded her the Kelly J.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
molawyersmedia.com | Teri Saylor
Anita Rodarte has devoted her 36-year legal career to serving clients in family law matters. She is also an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, where she is the immediate past president of the Missouri chapter. Rodarte also is a past president of the AAML Foundation, which supports children and families affected by breakups. In 2017, she earned The Missouri Bar’s Roger P. Krumm Family Law Award.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
molawyersmedia.com | Teri Saylor
John Pratt has devoted his career to family law and is a longtime member of a Missouri Supreme Court committee that periodically reviews the state’s child support guidelines. A former president of the Springfield Metropolitan Bar Association and the Missouri chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, he was recognized as the Roger P. Krum Family Lawyer of the Year in 2010. Dedicated to public service, Pratt served on the Springfield City Council and as its mayor pro tempore.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
molawyersmedia.com | Teri Saylor
Kate Nolen serves as co-chair Lathrop GPM’s pro bono committee, coordinates the firm’s in-house training on wide-ranging topics and handles juvenile appointments, representing both parents and children in family court. Before joining Lathrop in 2016, Nolen was director of legal services for Jackson County CASA. Missouri Lawyers Media has honored her multiple times, including as an Up & Coming Lawyer in 2013 and an Up & Coming Mentor in 2019. She also earned a Women’s Justice Award in 2016.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
molawyersmedia.com | Teri Saylor
Cary Mogerman is a highly regarded family lawyer with connections to family law practitioners across the country and beyond. He is a fellow and past president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. A past recipient of the Roger P. Krumm Family Law Practitioner of the Year award, he is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, as well as vice president of the American College of Family Trial Lawyers.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
molawyersmedia.com | Teri Saylor
Christina Miller draws on her personal experience with infertility to help others for whom the conventional method of creating children is unworkable or unavailable. She represents clients across the country, guiding through the legal issues raised by in-vitro fertilization, surrogate pregnancy and other forms of alternative birth, as well as assisting with birth-related court orders and agreements regarding donors, gestational carriers and co-parenting.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
molawyersmedia.com | Teri Saylor
Tiffany McFarland was drawn to practice law by her desire to make a positive impact on people’s lives. She started practicing in 2005 and opened her own law firm in Kansas City in 2022. She draws on her long experience in handling complex divorces, child custody matters and other family-law litigation, particularly in cases involving the valuation of businesses and other valuable assets. Missouri Lawyers Media honored her as a litigation practitioner at the 2018 Women’s Justice Awards.
