Judy has 30 years of experience in family law. She has a unique and deep passion for adoption cases, including domestication of foreign adoptions, contested, same-sex couple, agency, relative and step-parent, third-party independent, DFCS, and interstate (ICPC) adoptions. She has finalized between 900-1000 adoptions in her career as part of her family law focus. She also possesses a keen ability to cut to the chase regarding issues pertaining to contested divorce and divorce mediations and settlements, modifications, legitimization, and custody disputes.
Because of her deep and broad knowledge of adoption, she has been a guest speaker at several seminars for attorneys, and has written a brief handbook on Georgia Adoption Law. “I’ve seen pretty much everything in adoption,” she said.
Law is not just an intellectual exercise for Judy. She went through the pain of her parents’ divorce, then the suicide of an aunt who had lost part of her farm due to a lack of legal representation. The suicide was the catalyst for starting law school midlife. Judy is currently a widow with five children, two of whom she adopted from Russia.
Judy has lived in Georgia since 1981 and in Gainesville on Lake Lanier since 1994. She enjoys boating and traveling, especially to Destin, Florida. An avid Georgia Bulldogs football fan, she admits to even barking on occasion.
