Michael A. Turken 1942-2009 - Saint Charles, MO

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, Missouri, 1968
    J.D.
    Law Review: Washington University Law Quarterly, Editorial Staff, 1968 - 1969

• Non Legal Education

  • Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1965
    B.S.
    Major: Psychology and Political Science

Current Employment Position(s)

• (1942-2009)

Past Positions

• Turken and Porzenski, LLC, 2007 - 2009
• Turken & Associates, P.C., 1999 - 2007
• Cundiff, Turken & Londoff, 1973 - 1999
• Law Offices of George Sullivan, 1971 - 1973
• Office of the Public Defender, St. Charles County, 1971 - 1975
• Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, St. Louis County, 1968 - 1971

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker "Economics of Family Law Practice", American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Mo. Chapter), April 17, 2004
  
• Speaker "Agreements with Clients", American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers National Meeting, 1998
  
• Speaker "The Economics of the Domestic Practice", American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (Mo. Chapter), 1999
  
• Speaker "Legislative Update for 1998", Missouri Bar
  
• Speaker "Legislative Update of St. Charles County Family", St. Charles County Bar Association, August 7, 1998
  
• Speaker "Ethics and Civility in the Family Practice: What Are the Bounds of Advocacy?", The Missouri Bar CLE, Annual Family Law Institute, August 22, 1997
  
• Speaker "Ethics and Civility in the Family Practice: What Are the Bounds of Advocacy?", The Missouri Bar CLE, Annual Family Law Institute, August 1, 1997
  
• Speaker, "Is the Marriage Irretrievably Broken", Missouri Bar CLE on Eighth Annual Family Law Institute, August 11, 1995
  
• Speaker, "Federal Child Support Requirements and Guidelines", Missouri Bar CLE, Seventh Annual Family Law Institute, August 19, 1994
  
• Speaker, "The Computer and You in Domestic Relations Cases", Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, 1994
  
• Speaker, "Malpractice", American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 1994
  
• Speaker, "Creative Use of the Personal Computer in Domestic Relations practice", Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, August 5, 1993
  
• Speaker, "Discovery in the Domestic Relations Cases", Missouri Bar Association, 1993
  
• Speaker, "Domestic Relations, The Emotional Client", Bar Association of St. Charles, 1992

Published Works

Articles

• Chapter 18 "Discovery", The Missouri Bar Family Law CLE, Spring, 2001
  
• "Evidence and Trial Tactics", American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Second Annual Institute, October 31, 1997
  
• "Child Custody Cases Involving Alternative Lifestyles", The Missouri Bar/Missouri Judicial Conference, Annual Meeting, September 18, 1997
  
• "Update of Family Law, Recent Legislation, Changes in Local St. Charles Speaker County Rules, and Comments by the Court", St. Charles County Bar and Missouri Bar CLE, July 28, 1997
  
• "Ethics", American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, Annual Meeting, May 17, 1997
  
• Chapter 18, "Discovery", The Missouri Bar, Missouri Family Law, Fifth Edition, January 30, 1997
• Chapter 19, "Trial Practice in the Domestic Practice", Family Law CLE, Fifth Edition, 1997
• "Family Law Deskbook Chapter 9", Editor, November 6, 1996
• "Family Law: Focusing on Child Support and Financial Considerations", St. Charles County Bar, June, 1995
• "Computer Software", Family Law in Missouri American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, January 19, 1995
• "Maintenance--Pay Now and Pay Later?", University of Missouri-Kansas City, December 9, 1994
• "Pleading and Proving Prior Convictions", Missouri Prosecuting Attorney Handbook, 1971
• "Guardianship/The Capacity of a Ward", Washington University Law Quarterly, 1969
• "Update of Family Law, Recent Legislation, Changes in Local St.Charles Speaker County Rules, and Comments by the Court", St. Charles County Bar and Missouri Bar CLE, July 28, 1997

Bar Admissions

• Missouri, 1968
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Missouri, 1969

Other Affiliations

• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers-Missouri Chapter, 2001 - 2002 (President)
• St. Charles County Bar Association, 1978 (Past-President)
• St. Charles County Bar Association, 1980 - Present (Chairman of the Rules Committee)
• Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis (Member)
• Missouri Bar Family Law Committee (Legislative Committee)
• St. Charles County Family Court Coordinating Committee (Member)
• St. Louis County Bar Association (Member)
• St. Louis Post Dispatch - Missouri Bar Family Law Legislative Liaison (Committee)

Fraternities and Sororities

• Sigma Alpha Mu