Ike Vanden Eykel - Dallas, TX
KoonsFuller, PC
1717 McKinney AvenueSuite 1500
Dallas, TX 75202-1236 http://www.koonsfuller.com
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Ike Vanden Eykel Overview
"Our mission is to offer quality legal representation from a single extraordinary family law attorney or a team of accomplished specialists – depending on the complexity of the case."
Ike Vanden Eykel, among the nation's most respected family lawyers, has been selected one of the Top 10 Divorce Lawyers in America and is described as the "reigning king" of Texas divorce and the "divorce law jedi" by The Dallas Morning News.
During 2010, he has served as President of the Dallas Bar Association while delivering the same high quality family law services he has for three decades. As Co-Managing Partner of KoonsFuller, he has grown the firm into the southwest's largest that handles exclusively family law cases, with offices in four North Texas locations.
Mr. Vanden Eykel has been featured in Texas Monthly among the Top 100 Attorneys in Texas, as one of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine and in Texas' Best Lawyers. He is often a commentator on local television and radio. Recently, he discussed Divorce and the Economy nationally on the Fox Business Network and on Good Day Dallas, the most-watched morning show in Dallas-Fort Worth.
He came to prominence during the 1980s as a champion of fathers' rights. But in 2003, Vogue magazine named him one of the Top Lawyers for Women in Texas.
After he represented a Park Cities housewife, Mr. Vanden Eykel was depicted in the book, My Husband Is Trying to Kill Me, and a television movie, Dead Before Dawn.
He has written three books on Texas family law: Lone Star Divorce, with fellow KoonsFuller attorney Sharla Fuller, the Texas Family Law Practice Guide and Protecting Your Assets From A Texas Divorce, with KoonsFuller partners Rick Robertson, Heather King, and Charla Conner.
Born March 25, 1949 in Slayton, Minnesota, he graduated from Drake University (B.S., 1971) and Baylor University School of Law (J.D., 1973).
Mr. Vanden Eykel is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and a Diplomate in the American College of Family Trial Lawyers.
Practice Areas
- Family Law
Current Employment Position(s)
- Managing Partner
Year Joined Firm
1990
Bar Admissions
- Texas, 1973
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 1993
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 1993
- U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, 1993
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1977
Specialties and Certifications
- Board Certified; Family Law and Civil Trial Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Other Affiliations
- Dallas Bar Association (Member)
- American Bar Association (Member)
- State Bar of Texas, 1987 - Present (Member, Family Law Council)
- Committee for Drafting Patterned Jury Charges In Family Law Cases, 1987 - 1989 (Member)
- Committee for Drafting Patterned Jury Charges In Family Law Cases, 1994 - 1995 (Member)
- Committee for Drafting Patterned Jury Charges In Family Law Cases, 1988 - 1996 (Member, Family Law Commission)
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
- Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists (Member)
Education
- Baylor University School of Law, Waco, Texas,
1973
J.D.
Law Review: Assistant Notes Editor, Baylor Law Review, 1972 - 1973 - Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa,
1971
B.S.
Honors: Delta Theta Phi
Major: Business Administration
Past Positions
- Supreme Court Advisory Commission, 1987 - 1988
- Advanced Family Law Course, Course Director, 1995
Classes and Seminars
- Lecturer, "Discovery Pitfalls, 25th Annual Advanced Family Law Course, State Bar of Texas, 1999
- Panel Dicussion; Five Not So Easy Pieces; Evidentiary Conundrums, American College of Family Trial Lawyers, 1999
- Family Law Update, 22nd Annual General Practice Institute, Baylor University School of Law, 1999
- Panel Discussion; Premarital Agreements: Negotiation and Litigation, Including Estate Planning Aspects and Issues, New Frontiers in Marital Property, State Bar of Texas, 1998
- Obtaining Records From Third Parties, 24th Annual Advanced Family Law Course, State Bar of Texas, 1998
- Summary Jury Trials, Dallas Bar Association Family Law Section Meeting, 1998
- The Happy & Health Trial Attorney (Myth or Reality?), Spring Meeting, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, 1998
- Family Law Update: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, General Practice Institute, Baylor School of Law, 1998
- Family Law Update: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, General Practice Institute, Baylor School of Law, 2000
- Opening and Closing the File, 8th Annual Family Law Conferencefor the General Practitioner and Legal Assistant, South Texas College of Law, 1998
Honors
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America
- Top 100 Attorneys in Texas, One of the Best Lawyers in Dallas by D Magazine
- Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- Fellow, International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
- AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
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