Salt Lake

Estate Planning
Family Law

David provides clients with high quality legal representation as he focuses on implementing the most cost-efficient and legally effective strategies. He represents a wide variety of clients with divergent legal needs. David works closely and effectively with qualified professionals and expert witnesses, including business evaluators, forensic accountants, clinical psychologists, custody evaluators, social workers, and appraisers.

David works quickly and tirelessly to understand his client's needs and goals while keeping in mind the prospects of trial and the demands of the judicial process. David gained significant insight into court and trial procedure after law school when he served as a judicial law clerk in Utah's Second Judicial District. David's continued experience in the courts gives him an unique ability to advocate for his clients before the Honorable Commissioners and Judges of the State of Utah.

David focuses in the following family law sub-specialties: family law trial work, mediation, divorce, divorce modifications, annulment, separate maintenance, child custody, parent time arrangements, interstate and international custody disputes, property division, allocation of debt, business valuation and division, high value and/or complex marital dissolution, alimony, child support, child support modifications, gay rights, qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs), divorce related tax issues, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, forensic accounting, protective orders and criminal defense of domestic violence charges, restraining orders, juvenile law, grandparents' rights, guardianship, collaborative law, post-divorce estate planning and military divorces.

Utah State Bar, 2010

U.S. District Court of Utah, 2010

University of Houston, J.D., 2009

The Environmental & Energy Law & Policy Journal, Staff Editor

Journal of Consumer and Commercial Law, Staff Editor

Visiting Student, BYU Law School, Provo, UT, fall 2008 – spring 2009

Visiting Student, University of Utah School of Law, Salt Lake City, UT, summer 2008

The London School of Economics and Political Science, MSc Political and Economic Theory, 2005

University of Utah, B.A. Political Science, 2004

Spanish

Adjunct Professor, Philosophy and Government Departments, Utah Valley University

Founding Board Member, Utah Journal of Family Law, 2010 - Present

Family Law Clinic, Matheson Court House, 2008 - Present

Campaign Management Intern, Hinckley Institute of Politics, Salt Lake City, UT, fall 2003

Homeless Night Watch Volunteer, Volunteers of America, Salt Lake City, UT, 1997 – 1999, 2001-2003

Co-Editor, et al. ed. Utah Juvenile Court Guidebook. 3rd ed. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 2009.

Co-Editor, A Twenty Something’s Guide to Spirituality. Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, Co., 2007.

Author, “Federal Juvenile Delinquency Act.” Utah Juvenile Court Guidebook. 3rd Ed. Lynn D. Wardle. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 2009. A1–A4

Author, “Comment on the Indian Child Welfare.” Utah Juvenile Court Guidebook. 3rd Ed. Lynn D. Wardle. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 2009. A13-A15

Author, “Choices of Courts in Voluntary Adoptions” Utah Juvenile Court Guidebook. 3rd Ed. Lynn D. Wardle. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 2009. A16-A30