“Whether your major concern is children or large property holdings, we realize it's the most important issue in your life at the time.”

Aubrey M. Connatser

KoonsFuller partner Aubrey Connatser is fast becoming recognized as one of the area’s finest family law practitioners, with a unique personality that allows her to work with opposing counsel, judges and juries to the benefit of her clients. She has been honored as one of Texas' Best Lawyers (Woodward White 2010) and one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas featured in D Magazine (2011).

 

Ms Connatser is a regular guest on law segments that air on local and national radio and television, explaining such diverse topics as high profile child custody and celebrity divorce.

 

"Aubrey is so smart and hard working that we all know whatever she takes on will be done right and her clients will love her,” says Managing Partner Ike Vanden Eykel.

 

Contact Aubrey Connatser at 214 871-2727

Her engaging personality was evident when she went on radio, television and in statewide publications talking about her pro bono work on behalf of the children taken by the state of Texas from the FLDS compound in West Texas. (See the AP video below.) She served as an ad litem attorney along with hundreds of other Texas lawyers in one of the largest pro bono representations in family law history.

 

She also appeared on Fox 4 News and CW33 in Dallas to talk about the spike in divorce filings experienced around Valentine's Day. (See below).

 

Ms. Connatser was the youngest attorney in KoonsFuller history to make partner as well as one of the youngest Texas lawyers to become Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in 2006. She first made the list of Texas Super Lawyers published by Key Professional Media and featured in Texas Monthly in 2004.

 

She earned her bachelor’s degree with high honors in psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in 1998 and her Juris Doctor with honors from The University of Texas School of Law in 2001.

 

While an undergraduate, she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Liberal Arts Honors Program and was an Endowed Presidential Scholar. In law school, she became a member of the Texas International Law Journal, was active in the University of Texas Domestic Violence Clinic and participated in Moot Court.

 

Ms. Connatser has chaired the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers committee of Lawyers Against Domestic Violence. She is also active in the Dallas Bar Association, having served as a board member of the DBA Family Law Section as well as co-chair of the Admissions & Membership, Pro Bono and Legal Lines committees.

 

She is a member of the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, the College of the State Bar of Texas and was also elected a member of the Annette Stewart American Inn of Court. Born on September 29, 1976 in Dallas, Ms. Connatser was the outstanding graduate of the Episcopal School of Dallas in 1994.

 

She and her husband, Adam Connatser (also an attorney), have one child and live in Dallas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

KoonsFuller News

Peppard: Bobby Ewing's Woodall Rodgers view

By Alan Peppard
The Dallas Morning News

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

With all the marital vicissitudes of the fictional Ewing family, it's fitting that TNT chose the offices of one of Dallas' most prominent divorce attorneys to use as the location for Bobby Ewing's office. Patrick Duffy recently made a 5:30 a.m. visit to the corner office of attorney Ike Vanden Eykel shooting scenes for the show. Ike is a long-time principal in the firm of KoonsFuller, which moved into its Uptown locale overlooking Woodall Rodgers Freeway, last summer.

Mental Health Professionals Vital to Family Law

Sunday, November 20, 2011

DENTON, TX — The role of the mental health professional in family law cases is vital. These professionals serve family law clients as counselors, parent facilitators/ coordinators, and as the mental health expert in collaborative law cases.

As Usual, Boomers Set Frantic Pace ... for Divorce

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

While the overall divorce rate seems to have flattened out or even declined in the new millennium, that’s not true for those of the baby boomer generation and older.