Featuring: Donna Sheen

This session will provide an update on custody case law in Wyoming and offer information and materials that provide ideas for alternatives to the standard primary/noncustodial models of custody; defining parenting roles in Orders; developing workable shared custody plans; discussion of statutory Best Interest Factors; and finally a discussion of common challenges in child custody cases like finding less litigious approaches to parenting solutions, customized co-parenting strategies, parental conflict/alienation problems.

About Your Speaker

Donna Sheen is a 2001 graduate of the University of Wyoming College of Law.  Ms. Sheen established a private law practice after serving in a variety of administrative positions at the Wyoming Department of Family Service and Department of Corrections.  In 2011, Ms. Sheen founded the Wyoming Children's Law Center, Inc.  a 501C3 nonprofit to provide legal advocacy for children in areas critical to their well-being including Guardian ad litem appointments in custody and guardianship actions, special education advocacy, and mediation of domestic relations cases.