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Category Archives: Legislative Affairs

MSJDN Joins ABA Day Digital in Support of Legal Services for Veterans

MSJDN supports military families during service and through the transition into life as a veteran family. One of MSJDN’s core missions is to educate the public about the challenges faced by career-minded military spouses and their families, including the...

April 20, 2020 at 6:00 am Jamison, Elizabeth read more

MSJDN Committee Updates

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April 2, 2018 at 8:00 am Jenny Boyles read more

Military Spouse Attorney Cheryl Mason Nominated to Lead VA’s Board of Veterans’ Appeals

Cheryl Mason, known to her colleagues as Cheri, is an experienced attorney and leader, the spouse of an Air Force veteran, the daughter of a World War II Navy veteran, and as of September 5, 2017, nominee for Chair...

September 27, 2017 at 6:25 pm Beets, Josie read more

Reporting from Michigan: Experience at Milspouse Attorney Licensing Law Signing

By Katherine Lee Goyette On March 14, 2017, MSJDN Board member Katherine Lee Goyette attended Governor Rick Snyder’s signing of HB 5288 & HB 5289 (Public Acts 423-424), allowing military spouse attorneys stationed in Michigan with their active duty...

April 3, 2017 at 8:00 am Katherine Goyette read more

Alaska Approves New Military Spouse Attorney Rule

By Emily Macey On March 20, 2017, the Alaska Supreme Court approved a new rule allowing for a waiver to practice law for attorney spouses of active duty military personnel stationed within the State. The new rule, Bar Rule...

March 30, 2017 at 9:00 am McPhillips, Candice read more

Military Spouse Attorney Licensing Becomes Michigan Law

On March 14th, MSJDN Treasurer Katherine Goyette was witness to a historic bill signing in Lansing, Michigan. Governor Snyder conducted a ceremonial signing of HB 5288 and HB 5289, assigned Public Act 423-424 (2016), granting military spouse attorneys a temporary...

March 24, 2017 at 2:00 pm Jamison, Elizabeth read more

Michigan Enacts Military Spouse Licensing Law!

by Angela M. Allen Unlike many other U.S. jurisdictions, licensing accommodations for the practice of law in Michigan must go through the legislature rather than the judiciary. MSJDN’s previous success in its efforts to achieve adoption of licensing accommodations has...

January 18, 2017 at 10:30 am Johanna Thibault read more

MSJDN to be recognized with prestigious Grassroots Advocacy Award from the ABA

MSJDN was founded in 2011 and will celebrate its 5th anniversary this June. In those 5 years, remarkable change has occurred for military spouse attorneys seeking to continue their careers while accompanying their servicemembers on assignments across the states...

February 10, 2016 at 8:20 am Jamison, Elizabeth read more

Federal Bar Association Includes Military Spouse Attorney Mobility on Issues Agenda, Sponsors Webinar On Military Spouses and Families

MSJDN’s strong working relationship with the Federal Bar Association (“FBA”) has been evident this year. First, the FBA’s Government Relations Committee officially included Military Spouse Attorney Mobility as an Active Legislative Issue in 2015, following an Issue Nomination application...

December 15, 2014 at 8:26 am Pitzen, Thea read more

MSJDN Formally Endorses The Multi-State Worker Tax Fairness Act (H.R. 4085)

Author’s Note: It’s Tax Day, which seemed an incredibly fitting day to announce MSJDN’s formal endorsement of a bill to simplify and reduce the burden of state income taxes paid by people doing their jobs from remote locations. Below...

April 15, 2014 at 8:00 am Reda Hicks read more

Military Spouse Group Pushes the Political Envelope

On the heels of widespread pension cut debate, military spouses are rallying on the Hill next week to learn about what it takes to run for office, from both sides of the aisle. Congressional decisions affect every aspect of...

February 7, 2014 at 6:44 pm Military Spouse JD Network read more

MSJDN Urges Legislators to Keep Faith with Military Families, Reject the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013

Update: Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act today, by a vote of 226-195. The Act now moves to the Senate for consideration and voting. MSJDN will continue working on this issue in the coming week and asks members to...

December 12, 2013 at 12:19 pm Reda Hicks read more

TRICARE For Kids: The Reynolds Family’s Story

This is the third installment in MSJDN’s TRICARE For Kids: Time For Change series. The first post discussed the continuing efforts of Congress, health care advocates, and concerned military families to make changes in the way TRICARE administers pediatric care, particularly...

November 27, 2013 at 8:00 am Lavery, Maureen read more

TRICARE For Kids: The Smith Family’s Story

This is the second installment in MSJDN’s TRICARE For Kids: Time For Change series. The first post discussed the continuing efforts of Congress, health care advocates, and concerned military families to make changes in the way TRICARE administers pediatric care,...

November 7, 2013 at 5:55 am Lavery, Maureen read more

Military Spouses Rise to Change the Political Conversation

          Military Spouse JD Network (MSJDN) and In Gear Career announce that they will be co-hosting Homefront Rising, an innovative exercise in political training for military spouse attorneys and other military family advocates. This ground-breaking,...

October 21, 2013 at 10:53 am Reda Hicks read more

TRICARE For Kids: Time For Change

Many MSJDN members have children who receive their health care through TRICARE, and some of our members are familiar with the process of navigating the military health care system to get proper care for their special needs children. These...

October 16, 2013 at 8:30 am Lavery, Maureen read more

MSJDN Attends House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Hearing

On September 11, 2013, the House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs held a hearing regarding the implementation of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ Fully Developed Claims (FDC) program.  MSJDN President Mary Reding and...

September 17, 2013 at 9:36 am Pitzen, Thea read more

MSJDN Joins NMFA to Storm the Hill, #EndSequestration Now

Members, we need your help!  MSJDN is joining the National Military Family Association in their efforts to #EndSequestration. On Thursday, September 12, NMFA, MSJDN and other leading military family organizations will take a stand and Storm the Hill to...

September 9, 2013 at 8:53 am Pitzen, Thea read more

Busting Archetypes For Effective Advocacy

Note: MSJDN is pleased to introduce another member of its new Writer’s Corps, Natalie Wilson. We hope you enjoy her debut installment. Last week, as part of the “Everyone Serves” blog series from Blue Star Families, the BSF network...

September 3, 2013 at 2:09 pm Wilson, Natalie read more

Grassroots Push: Urging Senators to Ignore Rhetoric, Hear Reality

This has been a whirlwind of a week for the Military Spouse JD Network, and it’s not over yet! It all started when our ongoing rule change efforts in California were derailed by a piece of legislation, AB 296,...

June 27, 2013 at 10:44 am Reda Hicks read more

NEXT STEPS on the Road to #Nix296

On Monday MSJDN launched its campaign to kill California AB 296, a bill harmful to military spouse attorneys and their families. Tuesday, MSJDN members, friends, family, and supporters took to the phones to let the bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Don...

June 26, 2013 at 6:00 am Reda Hicks read more

Campaign Continues to Defeat Harmful MilSpouse Employment Bill

Yesterday, we launched our campaign to defeat California Assembly Bill 296, a bill that claims to help military spouse attorneys but Actually creates a harmful precedent for the largest military-populated state. You yelled, you screamed, you shared with your...

June 25, 2013 at 12:11 pm Beets, Josie read more

California Bill Will Heighten Military Spouse Employment Barriers

Update available HERE. Last week MSJDN achieved another state victory with the passage in Illinois of a licensing accommodation for military spouse attorneys, making it the fifth state to do so. That’s why we were so shocked to hear that California Assemblymember Don Wagner...

June 24, 2013 at 5:45 am Reda Hicks read more

Military Family Readiness Council Not Quite Ready

with additional contribution from Steven G. Fisher The DoD Military Family Readiness Council has been under fire in recent months, and some of the reviews have been downright scathing. With a mandate from Congress to consider the efficacy of military family...

May 3, 2013 at 3:00 am VOLKMAN, LORI read more

Challenge from the Top—Obama, Biden Push Business Community to Embrace Military Spouses

Every Administration’s First and Second Ladies come to the job with specific issues they want to address, and the current First and Second Lady are no exception. For the past two years, Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden have...

April 30, 2013 at 1:09 pm Reda Hicks read more

Tax Credits for Milspouses First Step to Soothe Licensing Woes

As a Navy wife, Judy Brown is no stranger to self-sacrifice, family separation, and the flexibility required for constant relocations that are a fixture of military life. Yet having to give up her career as a Dental Assistant ranks...

April 24, 2013 at 4:03 pm VOLKMAN, LORI read more

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