Sandra M Dawahare

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At Dawahare & Kershaw, L.L.P., we are a small law firm which has chosen to limit our practice to the areas of family law. These areas include Divorce, Custody, Visitation, Child Support, Property Division, Post Decree issues, Pre-Nuptial Agreements,and Adoption. We are also trained to conduct Alternative Dispute Resolution, including mediation, collaborative divorce, and arbitration.

We have chosen to keep the size of our firm small. Dawahare & Kershaw has three partners: Sandra Mendez Dawahare, Esq., Valerie S. Kershaw, Esq., and Suzanne Baumgardner, Esq. Kami Brumley is an associate of the firm. Services are also provided to client in as "of counsel" capacity by Elisabeth (Ellie) Goldman, Esq.
While our firm is small, the attorneys and their experience compliment each other, thereby allowing us jointly to provide you with the exceptional legal services all our clients expect of us.

Dawahare & Kershaw LLP
333 W Vine St #1201
Lexington KY 40507
Tel: 859 381-1145
Fax: 859 381-1165

Sandra Mendez Dawahare pursued her undergraduate education at George Washington University where she received a BA in International Affairs in 1972. She received her JD degree from Georgetown University School of Law in 1975, where she served as Chairman of the Barristers Council (1974-1975).

Ms. Dawahare is a member of the Virginia State Bar, Fayette County and Kentucky State Bar Associations. She is admitted to practice in Fayette County, Kentucky, Virginia, the U.S. District Court Bar for the Eastern and Western District of Kentucky, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Her legal career began more than 32 years ago upon graduation form Law School in the Office of the Chief Counsel of the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington, D.C. She married and came with her husband back to his home state after the birth of their first child. She joined the law firm of Shouse & Burrus where she stared with a general practice which began to focus in domestic law. After six years, she took the position of General Counsel for the Kentucky Department of Education. In 1986, she returned to private practice to the law firm of Landrum, Shouse & Patterson and limited her representation to family law cases and airport related cases. She resigned her partnership from the law firm of Landrum & Shouse in 2003 to begin her own firm Dawahare & Kershaw, LLP; a boutique practice limited to matrimonial law.

Ms. Dawahare has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1993. She is certified by the AAML as a Family Law Mediator and as a Matrimonial Arbitrator.

Ms. Dawahare has served as Chairman of the Fayette County Bar Association Family Law Section and the Chairman of the Kentucky Bar (KBA) Family Law Section. She is currently active in the KBA Family Law Section and the Alternate Dispute Resolution Committees.

She is a frequent lecturer on a variety of family law topics through the UK College of Law, the Kentucky Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Law and other private programs.