Laura W. Morgan owns and operates Family Law Consulting in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the author of Child Support Guidelines: Interpretation and Application (Wolters Kluwer, 1st ed. 1996, 2d ed. 2012 and Supps.), the leading treatise on child support guidelines in the United States and was the Chair of the Child Support Committee of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association for six years. As a nationalexpert on child support, she has acted as special consultant to many state child support guidelines review commissions, as well as to the federal government of Canada.

Ms. Morgan’s expertise encompasses all aspects of family law. She is the co-author of Attacking and Defending Marital Agreements (ABA 1st ed. 2001, 2d ed. 2012). She taught the Advanced Family Law course at the United States Judge Advocate General School for 5 years, and she has participated in over 100 CLEs across the country on a variety of family law topics. She is is on the Board of Editors of the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, The American Journal of Family Law, and she served on the Board of Editors of The Family Advocate (ABA Section of Family Law) and Divorce Litigation. Ms. Morgan has written law review articles for New Mexico Law Review, The Family Law Quarterly, Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, South Carolina Law Review, and Canadian Journal of Family Law. Her articles have also appeared in the Wisconsin Bar Journal, Kansas Trial Lawyers’ Association Journal, Tennesee Bar Journal, Florida Commentator, American Journal of Family Law, Trial Magazine, The Practical Lawyer, The Journal of the Virginia Trial Lawyers’ Association, the Florida Bar Journal. She is also a contributing author to numerous family law manuals and compilations.

Ms. Morgan is a member in good standing of the bars of Massachusetts and Virginia.

Her current CV is available here.