Thomas C. Montoya
Private Practice Lawyer
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Practice Areas
Spousal Support; Community Property Law; Separation Agreements
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Admitted
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1981, New Mexico; 1985, U.S. District Court, District of New Mexico
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Law School
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University of Southern California, J.D.
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Member
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American Bar Association (Member, Law in the Fifty States Committee, 1988); State Bar of New Mexico (Member, Family Law Section; Chair, 1990-1991; Legislation Committee; Statewide Rules of Civil Procedure for Domestic Relations Cases); American Law Institute.
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Biography
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Listed in Best Lawyers of America, 1995, 2005. Author and Editor: New Mexico Domestic Relations Law and Forms, Michie-Butterworths, 1995. Author, "Survey of New Mexico Law," New Mexico Law Review, Vol. 12, No. 1, 1982, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1988. Member: New Mexico Supreme Court Domestic Relations Task Force, 2004; Past Co-Chair, Statewide Child Support Guidelines Committee, 1990; Supreme Court Child Support Guidelines Committee, 1986-1987; Bernalillo County Local Domestic Relations Rules Committee, 1989; Selected as qualified to be District Court Judge by Judicial Selection Nominating Committee: 1991, 1994, 1997. Has taught more than 45 Continuing Education programs on family law, lobbied for over 30 legislative enactments in family law, and has testified before the NM State Legislature more than 60 times. Appointed to Board of New Mexico Crime Victims Reparation Commission by Governor Bill Richardson, 2005.
Thomas C. Montoya, shareholder with Atkinson & Kelsey, P.A. He practices primarily in matrimonial law and marital property distribution.
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Born
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 20, 1952
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Reported Cases
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Ruggles v. Ruggles, 116 N.M. 52, 860 P.2d 182 (S.Ct. 1993) (Leading retirement division case); Huntington National Bank v. Sproul, 116 N.M. 254, 861 P.2d 935 (S. Ct 1993); Pillars v. Thompson, 103 N.M. 704, 712 P.2d 1366 S.Ct. 1986); Wood v. Cunningham, 140 N.M. 699, 147 P.3d 1132 (Ct. App. 2006); Leeder v. Leeder 118 N.M. 603, 884 P.2d 494 (Ct. App. 1994) (Child Support Guidelines: business: tax); Ruggles v. Ruggles 1114 N.M. 63, 834 P.2d 940 (Ct. App. 1992); Alfieri v. Alfieri, 105 N.M. 373, 733 P.2d 4 (Ct. App. 1987) (Custody; right to travel).
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ISLN
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902409772
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