About
Dawn grew up in Erlanger, Ky. She graduated from Covington Latin School and Northern Kentucky University, in which she received a bachelor’s diploma in crook justice in 2003. She attended Salmon P. Chase College of Law, where she received her regulation degree in 2006.
The first ten years of Dawn’s criminal profession changed into in the main spent on family law, administrative regulation, civil litigation, and appellate paintings. She additionally practiced collaborative regulation, which permits couples who've decided to separate or stop their marriages to paintings with their lawyers to acquire a agreement with out the want of going to court docket.
Dawn served as Kenton County Family Court Judge, Division Five from January, 2017 thru December, 2020. As Family Court Judge, she heard and decided all styles of cases related to households, dad and mom, and children, including divorce; baby aid; toddler custody; paternity; adoption; domestic violence; dependency, neglect, and abuse; termination of parental rights; and juvenile topics.
In addition to Dawn’s enormous professional enjoy dealing with circle of relatives-regulation matters, she has a personal know-how of how the family regulation gadget can have an effect on households and individuals. It is her non-public story that has given her an expertise of what kids experience when they witness home violence and how it may affect them, even from a totally younger age. Dawn’s stories have additionally given her insight into how divorces have an effect on no longer best children, however the mother and father as nicely. Finally, Dawn’s judicial and political career have made it feasible to apprehend how crucial privacy is while all of us is present process any type of legal struggle.
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Legal Issues
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights , Victims Rights
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
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Experience
- Judge
Kenton Family Court
2017
Educations
Graduation year: 2003
