Jessica Kirk Professional Lawyer

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Attorney Jessica Kirk is a dedicated practitioner of family law in the state of Alabama. Attorney Jessica Kirk deals with the issue of paternity on a regular basis. In previous decades paternity was often an issue that was not always easy to resolve. More often than not in the past it could be more easily determined that a man was not a child's father than it could be to determine exactly who had fathered a child. Even in the area of exclusion there were not always absolutes.

With the improvements made to DNA testing as well as its increasing acceptance as viable legal evidence, paternity has become a more central issue in family courts. Keeping abreast of changes in DNA technology, attorney Jessica Kirk has adapted these changes to reflect how she deals with the subject of paternity in her family law practice.

Attorney Jessica Kirk knows that there is much more to legal paternity issues than just determining through medical tests whether or not a man has fathered a child. When she works with her clients, both the men and the women, she consults with them about all sides of the issue. Well educated at the highly ...
... acclaimed University of Alabama School of Law and graduating as a Doctor of Jurisprudence, she not only knows all current laws governing paternity in the state of Alabama, she also approaches the issue in the role of a child advocate as well. Taking many things into consideration, such as the age of the child and the relationships between all parties involved, attorney Jessica Kirk treats each case as unique and advises and represents her clients accordingly.

Attorney Jessica Kirk has built an impressive resume since her graduation from law school in 1995. She is a partner at The Crittenden Firm and a member of the American, Birmingham, Tallapoosa County and Alabama Bar Associations as well. She was a member of the Alabama State Bar Volunteer Lawyers Program from 1996 to 2000 and is a member of the Public Service Committee of the Birmingham Bar Association.

In 1825, four lawyers were practicing in Jefferson County. The first courthouse of Jefferson County was located in a log hut about one mile east of present downtown Birmingham. In 1821, the courthouse was relocated in Elyton. It remained there until 1873 when Birmingham became the county seat of Jefferson County.

Nineteen attorneys met at the courthouse on April 9, 1885, for the purpose of adopting a Constitution for the "government of the Birmingham Bar Association" and to "elect officers to fill the offices prescribed by said constitution." On that date, John P. Tillman was elected President, R.H. Pearson, Vice President and O.W. Underwood was elected Secretary- Treasurer. The first Executive Committee elected was W.A. Walker, Jr., E.J. Taliaferro, and R.T. Lowe. On April 15, 1885, they incorporated the Birmingham Bar Association. Attorney Jessica Kirk is a member of this prestigious association.

The nineteen lawyers who adopted that Constitution in 1885 could not have anticipated the numerous social and legal changes which would affect the profession of the learned practice of law. While times have indeed changed in the 100 plus years since the adoption of this Constitution, its purposes have remained the same. As stated in Article II of the Declaration of 1885;

"The object and purposes of the said Society are the social and literary advancement of its members - especially their advancement in the profession to which they belong."

Today the Birmingham Bar Association has over 3000 members, typically publishes a forty page quarterly bulletin, a monthly newsletter, maintains an internet web site, provides for social activities for its members through an entertainment committee and has an established trust fund to aid its needy members, now totaling over $100,000 dollars.
Jessica Kirk is a University of Alabama School of Law Graduate. Jessica Kirk has many achievements including The Alabama Bar Association.