Louisiana Family Law with Forms

ANDREA (“ANDI”) BEAUCHAMP CARROLL is the Associate Dean for Student & Academic Affairs and the Donna W. Lee Professor of Family Law at the LSU Law Center. Before joining the LSU Law faculty, Professor Carroll clerked for The Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She subsequently worked as an associate at the Dallas law firm of Baker Botts, L.L.P., handling appellate litigation. In 2003, Professor Carroll returned home to LSU Law, where she has been teaching and writing about family law, community property, and property for more than two decades. Professor Carroll is the author of more than a dozen books and articles in her field. She has recently been published in the Cambridge University Press and her work on comparative property law was honored at the Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Carroll is a qualified family law, divorce, and custody mediator, and has served as an expert in family litigation nationally. She is particularly active in law reform in Louisiana, as a Member of the Council of the Louisiana State Law Institute and the Institute’s Property, Children’s Code, and Obligations committees. Professor Carroll has led successful legislative reforms in the areas of domestic violence, child relocation, spousal support, surrogacy, and community property rights, to name a few. As Reporter of the Law Institute’s Family Law and Community Property Committee, Professor Carroll continues to work to improve the law related to marriage and the family.