When I graduated from law school in 1998, I was drawn to the field of Family Law but wasn’t fully ready to commit so early in my legal career, I accepted my first job out of law school was at a general practice firm where I handled many types of cases. It did not take long for me to realize that, while I found other areas of the law interesting, family law was what I was best at and was what I got the most satisfaction from doing. Once I realized that family law was the area for me, I made the decision to practice exclusively family law. Because I enjoyed learning and improving my skills, I decided to specialize in family law and in 2005, I became certified as a family law specialist. I moved to Charlotte in 2006 and, not long after my arrival in Charlotte, I started to handle a few family law appeals in addition to my family law trial practice. After handling a few family law appeals, I quickly realized that I enjoyed the legal research, reasoning, and writing that was involved with appellate work and that I wanted to move away from the courtroom and to limit my practice to family law appeals. Having made that decision, I became certified as an appellate practice specialist in 2020. I am one of only four attorneys in North Carolian who have a double board certification in family law and appellate practice. This dual specialization, along with my years of experience in handling family law appeals makes me uniquely qualified to assist litigants need to appeal from a trial court’s ruling or litigants who have received a favorable ruling in the trial court, only to then be on the receiving end of a notice of appeal filed by the party who lost at trial. I have handled