Family Law Section

Minutes October 9, 2001

In Attendance:

• Harry Caston
• Karma Dixon
• Brent Johns
• Judge Larry Jones
• Marcie Keck
• Louise Knauer
• Lori Nelson
• Stewart Ralphs

Excused:

• Commissioner Bradford
• Marilyn Brown
• Helen Christian
• Mary Corporon
• Sandy Dolowitz
• Commissioner Hadley
• Randy Ludlow
• Howard Lundgren
• Adam Trupp
• Kellie Williams

I. Minutes. Lori moved for approval of the minutes of the August 15, 2001. Marcie seconded the motion. The motion carried unanimously.

II. Section Budget. Karma provided the information regarding the budget status. Lori and Marcie expressed concern that the section membership appears to be down. Karma will check with Arnold.

III. Selection of Secretary. Karma expressed concern that we still do not have a secretary and that she is taking the minutes (which does not work very well) until that occurs. The Committee explained that until Karma had been put in as secretary, the chair-elect had always taken the minutes. Since Lori had not previously taken minutes, she agreed to take notes in November or until a secretary could be selected. The Committee also decided to wait until we get additional members to appoint a new secretary.

IV. Vacancies on the Executive Committee. Karma had received a few applicants for the vacancies on the Executive Committee. She reminded everyone that we had not formalized any criteria to be used in the selection process. Lori recommended that we look at the AAML standards as a beginning. Marcie agree to get information on Steve Sullivan.

Judge Jones moved that we form a sub-committee to draft the criteria and to screen the applicants based upon that information. Harry seconded the motion which passed unanimously.

Larry, Louise, Helen and Stewart agreed to serve on the sub-committee. They are to develop the criteria by October 23, 2001.

V. Subcommittee Membership

A. Newsletter

Louise indicated that they are working on the newsletter. Karma indicated that the forum was not working on the Web page and she will check on the problem.

B. CLE Subcommittee

The CLEs that are currently planned for the year are:

• October- Domestic Violence, Marcie will moderate
• November- No additional CLE we encourage attendance at the NLCLE the Legal Aid sponsors.
• December- Nor additional CLE, we encourage attendance at the AAML seminar.
• January- still to be planned
• February- Commissioner Tom Patton will discuss the Commissioner system in Utah County.
• March- we will have two sessions at the Mid-year Bar.
• April- Billy Walker will do a presentation on ethics
• May- we will have two sessions at the annual Bar

C. Annual Seminar

The date is set for May 10 at the Law and Justice Center. The Committee will report at the next meeting regarding topics and plans.

D. Standing Committee

There was no report from the Standing Committee.

E. Legislative

The legislative session will be shortened because of the Olympics..

VI. Bylaws

We passed on discussion of the bylaws.

VII. Holiday Social

Sandy Dolowitz has agreed to have the Holiday Social at his offices this year. It will be December 5. We need to book Katie. There will be no beer this year because it was not consumed last year.