Heather Broxterman - Lawyer in Denver, CO

With an unshakable desire to start adifferent kind of law firm, Heather co-founded BAM Family Law (BroxtermanAlicks McFarlane PC) with one vision: to build a law firm that recognizes andmeets not just the legal, but the holistic human needs of all clients whilehelping them navigate the family law system.

Heather brings extensive experienceas well as patience, understanding, and careful attention to detail to all ofher clients. She is very aware that most people in need of a family lawattorney are experiencing some of the most difficult moments of their lives.Heather prides herself on being attentive, responsive, sensitive, and direct.She has comprehensive experience in all facets of family law, includingdissolution, high conflict cases, collaborative cases, mediation, complicatedfinancial issues, international child abduction cases, dissolution of civilunion cases, parenting litigation involving same-sex couples, and appellatecases. Heather has extensive experience with complicated financial issuesincluding the division of business interests, the valuation of businessinterests, trusts, privately-held stock, and high-level compensation packages.Heather is especially proud to have been able to work on some of the earlysame-sex couple rights cases in Colorado, including the legalization ofsame-sex marriage and recognition for second parents pursuant to C.R.S.19-4-105.

Long before earning her law degreefrom Georgetown University in 2010, Heather was focused on the legal,logistical and psychological issues impacting families. While at the Universityof Virginia for her undergraduate education, she wrote her thesis on thechanging roles of parenthood in the context of divorce. During college, Heatherworked for the Charlottesville Public Defenders Office in Charlottesville,Virginia. It was there that she was extensively trained in motivationalinterviewing, including preparing clients not only for trials and sentencing,but also in long-term planning for their lives. Before leaving the Public DefendersOffice, Heather helped pave the way for bringing mental health courts toCharlottesville by researching the policies, procedures, remedy structures andqualification criteria of such courts in the United States. This was aparticularly important project for Heather, as she has comprehensively studiedmental health diagnoses and their crossover to the court system. Heathercontinues this interest today, as she has extensive experience with casesinvolving a party (or child) with mental health issues. Heather takes a deepand sophisticated interest in such cases, giving them the extra care andattention that they need.

Following her graduation fromGeorgetown in 2010, Heather moved to her much-loved home of Colorado. Out oflaw school, she began clerking for the Honorable James C. Klein of ColoradosTwentieth Judicial District in Boulder. Working with Judge Klein, Heatherlearned to master the complexities of the family law system, conducting legalresearch, drafting orders on motions and requests for rulings, arranging andmonitoring child and family investigator appointments. Heather also assistedthe court during hearings and was a bailiff during jury trials. Heathersfavorite part about clerking was the incomparable privilege of watching judgesreact to evidence and personalities. She is particularly attuned to judicialdemeanor and is skilled at tailoring her evidence presentation to be aseffective as possible with the presiding judge.

From July 2011 until she foundedBAM, Heather was a senior associate attorney for Gutterman Griffiths inLittleton, Colo., where she independently managed an extensive family lawcaseload, including dissolution cases, post-decree financial litigation,post-decree parenting litigation, international child abduction cases,dissolution of civil union cases, parenting litigation involving same-sexcouples, and appellate cases.

Heather believes wholeheartedly that each family law case isdifferent and deserving of individual attention, expertise and understanding.

PUBLISHED CASES

In the Interest of Madrone,2012 CO 70 (Colo. 2012)

ARTICLES

Who Gets the Pre-Embryos in the Divorce? Law WeekColorado, June 24, 2019

PRESENTATIONS

Applying Technology toSettlement, Pretrial and Trial, Presented by Carolyn Witkus and Heather Broxterman,November 21, 2013 at the National BusinessInstitute, Using Technology to Win Your Case

Civil Unions in Colorado:Family Law Implications, Civil Unions CLE: Family Law and Estate Issues in aTime of Rapid Change, Co-presented with Ann Gushurst, November 4, 2013

Alternative Families? ChangingOptions for Non- Biological Same-Sex Parents, OUTLaws Conference at theUniversity of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2012

Expert Witness Bootcamp: Cross-Examining a Mental HealthProfessional. Presented by Heather Broxterman, October 29, 2015 at the University of Denver SturmCollege of Law

PROFESSIONAL FORUMS

Panelist, Year of the WomanRoundtable, Law Week Colorado, April 3, 2019

Panelist, Law Week Colorado Managing Partner Roundtable:Challenges of a Post-COVID World, July 26, 2021

AFFILIATIONS

Member, Colorado BarAssociation

Member, Boulder County BarAssociation

Member, Colorado Bar Association, Family Law Section

EDUCATION

B.A. Sociology University ofVirginia, Minor in Economics

J.D. Georgetown University Law Center

AWARDSAND CREDENTIALS

AvvoRating: 10 Superb

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