Former Harriett Buhai Center board Vice President, Laura Wasser, is featured in the 2012 edition of Loyola Law School Alumni Magazine. The article highlights many of Wasser’s strengths, including her intellect, discretion and empathetic nature, all qualities that the Center staff came to know and appreciate during her tenure on the board. Wasser emphasizes the
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Congratulations to Harriett Buhai Center board member Stephanie Barnett, whose article “The Uncertainty of Spousal Support Waivers” was published in The Recorder last month. Barnett is a senior associate with Beverly Hills-based family law firm Jaffe and Clemens, and has been a Center board member since last year. Barnett’s article discusses the evolution of spousal
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The Harriett Buhai Center staff extends a warm, and well-deserved, congratulations to board member David Ettinger for his featured profile in the Pro Bono section of Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine. Ettinger, a Center board member since 1997, is an appellate attorney practicing in Los Angeles who handles family law cases on appeal for the
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In the simple surroundings of the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law, four women—former and current clients of the Center– gathered around a table with philanthropist and former First Lady of California, Maria Shriver (pictured left with Harriett Buhai Center Executive Director Betty Nordwind). A journalist by trade, Shriver eased the women into a conversation
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“So there I was, 40 years old, close to broke, with two children, and no way of making a living,” said author Judy Resnick, in an excerpt from her new book “I’m On My Own, And So Are You.” By her own description Judy was “raised to be a wife and mother.” After her divorce,
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