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 Dissolution (2023)
• Speaker, “Drafting Enforceable Orders,” Advanced Drafting (2023)
• Co-Course Director, Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar, Amarillo, Texas (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, Texas (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, Texas (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, Texas (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, Texas (2017)
• Co-Course Director, Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar, San Angelo, Texas (2017)
• Course Director, TAFLS Trial Institute, Charleston, South Carolina (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 Dissolution (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, Texas (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, Texas (2010)
• Speaker, “Changes in Property Issues and Trends for the Future,” Advanced Family Law Course (2009)
• Attendee, Houston Family Law Trial Institute, South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas (2009)
• Speaker, “Support, Maintenance & Alimony,” Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar, San Angelo, Texas (2008)
• Speaker, “Support, Maintenance & Alimony,” Family Law Essentials Pro Bono Seminar, Wichita Falls, Texas (2008)
• Speaker, “Family Law Legislative Updates,” Texas Advanced Paralegal Seminar, Addison, Texas (2007)
• Speaker, “Nobody’s Doin’ What They’re S’posed to…—Enforcing Child Support and Possession Orders,” Family Law Essentials, Mineral Wells, Texas (2007)
• Attendee, Institute for Family Law Associates, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Chicago, Illinois (2006)
• Speaker, “Use of Discovery at Trial,” Family Law Essentials, Eagle Pass, Texas (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, Texas (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, Chapter 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, Chapter 29 (2009)
• “Family Law Contracts: Pre- and Post-Marital Agreements, Divorce Decrees, AIDs, Application of Transactional, Contract and Related Law, Enforcement, Breach, and Contractual Defenses,” Advanced Family Law Course, Chapter 37 (2009)
• “Drafting Decree and Closing Documents,” Advanced Family Law Course, Chapter 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, Chapter 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 & Memberships

• Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (2014–present)
• Member and Past President, Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists
• Sustaining Member, Texas Family Law Foundation
• Board Member, State Bar of Texas—Family Law Section
• Treasurer and Program Director, The Annette Stewart American Inn of Court—Family Law
• Member, Dallas Bar Association—Family Law Section
• Member, Tarrant County Bar Association
• Member, Collaborative Family Solutions
• Member, College of the State Bar of Texas
• Kappa Sigma Fraternity Alumnus