Time to Chat with a Leading Legal Beagle -- Pet Law Attorney Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton!
Not sure what your legal rights are in a pet dispute? Or how best to handle pet visitation rights if you are going through a divorce? Or what's the best solution to create a trust in the event that your pet outlives you? For answers, Oh Behave Show host Arden Moore turns to Attorney Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton, one of the leading experts on pet law in the nation. This acclaimed attorney, speaker and mediator has been featured in leading publications and television shows.
BIO:
Debra Vey Voda-Hamilton is the principal at Hamilton Law and Mediation, PLLC, (HLM) the first solo mediation practice in the US dedicated to helping people resolve conflicts involving animals.
HLM uses alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to help resolve conflicts ranging from divorce disagreements over the family pet to helping animal rights advocates see the benefit of sitting down with their adversaries and having a neutral discussion before, during & after litigation is initiated.
Debra also works with pet service providers and professionals to help them pursue their passion for helping people and their pets while reducing their exposure to costly litigation.
She presents programs that teach people how to communicate, as a speaker and receiver of information without feeling they need to resort to litigation. Debra is the go-to person for information regarding the use of mediation in disagreements over animals for the NY Times, Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Sun Times, Bloomberg and the US News and World Report.
Debra hosts free online webinars, which teach pet owners and pet service providers how to address conflict in their business or relationships with clients, colleagues or pet service providers. She also helps pet owners and pet service providers aid each other in the creation and implementation a SIMPLE short and long-term pet care plan. The MAAP Plan enables beloved companion animals get the care their owners want them to have any time their owner is personally not able to care for them.
Debra graduated from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School in 1983 and was admitted to practice in New York in 1984.