“Confidentiality is always a concern when you go through a divorce. We work constantly to insure the privacy of those we represent.” 

Karen B. Turner 

Karen Turner has mastered the detail and technical expertise necessary in complex property cases and child custody litigation. Having been selected to the Texas Super Lawyer list (Thomson Reuters) for 2003-2006 and 2008-2010, she is also widely experienced in the creation and execution of marital agreements.

Few family law attorneys understand what divorcing people are going through better than Karen Turner. Besides having experience as a family law attorney, Ms. Turner was a child of divorce and a step-parent, is divorced herself and is now a single parent. She came to KoonsFuller from a large, full-service Dallas law firm. and has been a Partner since 1995, practicing out of the Dallas office.

Besides earning her reputation as a determined and professional litigator, she is fully trained in and committed to the collaborative law process as a more family- and business-friendly approach to divorce. She is a member of the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas. 

Contact Karen Turner at 214 871-2727

Ms. Turner is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists and the Family Law Sections of the State Bar of Texas and the Dallas Bar Association. She is also a Fellow of the Dallas Bar Foundation and has been elected to the Annette Stewart Inn of Court.

Born in 1962 in Longview, Texas, she graduated from Texas Tech University (B.A. cum laude, advertising, 1984) and the University of Texas School of Law (Doctor of Jurisprudence with honors, 1988).

Ms. Turner has written and spoken to attorney and accountant organizations on such topics as Financial, Tax and Legal Issues in Divorce Proceedings, Enforcement of Court Orders in Family Law Cases, Legislative Changes to the Family Code and The Use and Preparation of Trial Notebooks.

She lives in the Park Cities with her two children, where she is involved in numerous community activities.

Representative clients

• Represented politicians or their wives in complex divorces involving property division, child issues and premarital agreements.
• Represented professional athletes, coaches or their wives in divorces and marital property agreements, while maintaining confidentiality.
• Represented famous national musicians in premarital agreements, while maintaining complete confidentiality from the press.
• Represented the CEO of a small corporation with a complex property situation and difficult child custody arrangements.
• Represented the owner of a small business who was able to keep the business open and in his hands by creative distribution of other assets.
• Involved in several complex cases involving property and child issues where one of the parties was from another country and worked with co-counsel from the foreign country.
• Worked with numerous parents whose spouses have substance abuse issues.
• Represented executives of a large corporation in divorce proceedings with complex stock options and compensation structures.