R. Ann Fallon
Practice Areas:
Family Law; Family Law Pensions
Admitted:
1984, California; U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Law School:
Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1983
College:
Fordham University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1970
Member:
Contra Costa Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors, Family Law Section, 1988-1991); State Bar of California (Member, Property Committee North, Family Section, 1993-2001; Legislative Liaison, 1995-2001; Federal Advisory Committee, Medical Child Support Working Group, 1999-2000). Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Recipient of 2008 Honored Fellow Award. Certified Specialist, Family Law, The State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.
Biography:
Author: "COBRA at Divorce," Family Law News, Fall 1994; "Qualified Medical Child Support Orders," Family Law News, Summer 1995; "QDRO for Child Support," Family Law News, Summer 1998; "QDROs and Other Retirement Benefit Orders," California Marital Settlement and Other Family Law Agreements, CEB 1997-2004 editions; "The Rubic's Cube of Marital Property Rights in an IRA," Association of Certified Family Law Specialists Newsletter, Winter 2005, No. 1. Newsletter, co-author of AB 861 (amending Family Code Section 2337 effective 1/1/08); California Solves National Heartbreak over Loss of Retirement on Divorce: Family Code Section 2337(d) in The Family Counselor, January 2008 Issue 179; and upcoming articles on Family Code Section 2337 in the 2008 Family Law News and Associate of Certified Family Law Specialist Newsletter. Contributor: "California Marital Settlement Agreements on Hot Docs (electronic document assembly program) and California Family Law Practice and Procedure (2d ed) Chapter 213 treatise," Lexis Publishing, 1999-2005.
Reported Cases:
In Re Marriage of Lehman (1998) 18 CA 4th 169.
Born:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
