2024 was an eventful year with several “firsts.” I became a board-certified specialist in Family Trial Law, Vice Chair of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Family Law Section, and I drafted two pieces of legislation that will be part of the TBA’s legislative package in 2025.

It was another busy year for continuing legal education seminars. I delivered my annual “Tennessee Family Law Update” seminar to the Knoxville Bar Association and the Tennessee Bar Association. If you haven’t seen it yet, both are still available on demand via the links in the preceding sentence.

At the Knoxville Bar’s Holiday Social a few weeks ago, I received the “Bag of Coal,” which is an honor in our local Family Law Section.

2024 is also the year that Vanderbilt became a football school. I’ll never forget watching the Vandy students march the goalposts down Broadway after shocking Alabama. What a sight!

Between working, writing, and teaching, I still made time to get outside and enjoy nature.

I published 105 blawg posts in 2024, bringing the total number of posts to 2,207 since I started almost 15 years ago (!!!).

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Here are the 10 most popular posts of 2024:

1. Tennessee Legislative Update 2024
2. Women Are Divorcing — And Finally Finding Happiness
3. Ability to Pay Alimony Challenged in Jackson, Tennessee Divorce: Pallekonda v. Pallekonda
4. Should Co-Parents Let Teen Decide the Custody Schedule?
5. Bad Actor Rewarded for Bad Acts in Gallatin, Tennessee Divorce: Wilhite v. Wilhite
6. Intervening Petitioners’ Standing to Terminate Parental Rights Questioned in Cookeville, Tennessee Termination and Adoption: In re Lyrik L.
7. Withdrawal of Court-Appointed Counsel Criticized in Erwin, Tennessee: In re Lila F.
8. Five Absolute Truths about Parenting
9. Reconciliation Agreement Scrutinized in Chattanooga, Tennessee Divorce: Burks v. Burks
10. Child Support for Severely Disabled Adult Child Challenged in Chattanooga, Tennessee Divorce: Niemeyer v. Niemeyer.

Cheers to making it through 2024. Onward to 2025!