Kimberly Naylor

Kimberly Naylor graduated law school from Texas Tech University School of Law in 1995 and has practiced family law exclusively for over 30 years. She was previously a partner with Loveless & Naylor and in 2017 joined forces with her husband, Steve to form Naylor & Naylor, P.L.L.C.

Kimberly handles exclusively family law litigation matters and is also trained in collaborative law. She is a trained family law mediator and attended Harvard University – Advanced Negotiations Skills Program. Kimberly is also trained and serves as a Parent Coordinator and Parent Facilitator. She has been named a Texas Rising Star by Texas Monthly and previously served on the Grievance Committee for the State Bar of Texas. She is a past Board member of the State Bar of Texas for District 7 and currently serves on the Family Law Council for the State Bar of Texas. She serves on both the Texas Family Law Practice Manual committee and Pattern Jury Charge (Family and Probate) committee. Locally, she is the former President of the Tarrant County Bar Association.

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Education

B.A., University of North Texas. 1991

J.D., Texas Tech University School of Law, 1995

Certifications

Board Certified – Family Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Memberships and Honors

State Bar of Texas Board of Directors, District 7 Place 1 Representative (2021-2023)
Family Law Council, State Bar of Texas (2020- present)
Grievance Committee – District 7 (2013- 2019)
State Bar of Texas
Texas Bar College
Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists
Tarrant County Bar Association
- President (2021-2022)
- President Elect (2020-2021)
- Vice President (2019-2020)
- Secretary/Treasurer (2018-2019)
- Transition to Practice – Chair (2015-2016)
- Texas Lawyers for Texas Veterans (2014 – present)
- Lawyer’s Against Domestic Violence – Past Chair
- Fee Arbitration Committee – Past Chair and Member (2008-present)
- People’s Law School Committee – Past Chair (2008)
Tarrant County Family Law Bar Association
Eldon B. Mahon Inn of Court - Associate Member (1999-2001)
Named by Texas Monthly as a “Rising Star” for 2004-2009
AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell (2010)
The Excel Center - Community Advisory Board Member (2008-2010)

Specialized Trainings

40 hours of Training in Mediation – 1995
30 hours of Advanced Family Law and Mediation – 2011
Harvard Law School Negotiation Skills Workshop – 2012
Qualified under 153.610 and 153.3101 as a Parent Coordinator and Parent Facilitator

Publications

Drafting Without Drama: Orders for Therapists, Evaluators, and Facilitators that Prevent the Next Crisis. 2025 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW DRAFTING.
Dealing with Debt. 2025 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Preparing Your Client from Filing through Trial. 2025 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION.
Preparing Your Client for Trial. 2024 ADVANCED TRIAL SKILLS.
You are Your Own Witness: Properly Presenting a Request for Trial and Appellate Attorney’s Fees (with A. Blair) 2024 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Drafting in Cases with Parent Facilitation and Parent Coordination. 2023 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW DRAFTING.
Legislative Update 2023: Family Law. 2023 UPDATE FOR SOLO PRACTITIONERS AND SMALL FIRMS.
Creative Possession Schedules (Other than the SPO). 2023 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION INSTITUTE 101.
Most Common Evidentiary Mistakes. 2022 ADVANCED TRIAL SKILLS FOR LAWYERS.
Exhibits and Demonstrative Evidence: Visually Persuading the Judge and Jury. 2022 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
You Never Even Called Me By My Name: Misunderstood (or Overlooked) Evidentiary Rules. 2022 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION INSTITUTE.
Attorney’s Fees: How to Get Them and How to Prove Them Up (with Judge P. Bennett). 2021 STATE BAR OF TEXAS ANNUAL MEETING.
Temporary Orders. 2021 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION 101.
Translating Those Creating MHP Parenting Plans into Enforceable Decrees (with H. Sheff, PhD). 2021 COLLABORATIVE LAW COURSE.
Sympathy for the Devil: Recovering from Discovery Mistakes and Traps (with Judge S. Beauchamp). 2020 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Relocation Litigation: To Move or Not to Move (with H. Mendez and V. Negron). 2019 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
How to Get Out of (or Stay In) Dodge: Venue Challenges. 2018 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Planning and Preparing for Your Temporary Orders Hearing. 2017 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION 101.
Creative Possession Schedules. 2016 STATE BAR OF TEXAS ANNUAL MEETING.
Property Demonstration: Top Evidentiary Problems. 2015 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Contempt Trial Demonstration. 2014 WINTER REGIONAL B CONFERENCE – TEXAS CENTER FOR THE JUDICIARY.
Temporary Orders. 2014 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION INSTITUTE 101.
Contempt Trial Demonstration. 2013 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Initial Client Relations – Screening, Interviewing and Setting/Collecting a Fee. 2013 HANDLING YOUR FIRST (OR NEXT) DIVORCE.
Creative Possession Schedules. 2012 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Working With (Instead of Against) Your Client. 2011 STATE BAR OF TEXAS WEBCAST.
Defending and Winning Breach of Fiduciary Claims by Summary Judgment (with J. Loveless). 2011 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW.
Creative Possession Schedules (with S. Naylor). 2010 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW DRAFTING COURSE.
Client Relations (with K. Redburn). 2010 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE BOOT CAMP.
How to Run a Law Office that Works (with J. Loveless). SOAKING UP SOME CLE 2010 – A SOUTH TEXAS LITIGATION COURSE.
Case Evaluation (with I. Vanden Eykel). STATE BAR COLLEGE SPRING TRAINING: WINNING BEFORE TRIAL 2010.
Courtroom Objections: Proper Methods of Objecting and Otherwise Protecting Your Client in the Courtroom (with S. Naylor). 2009 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Getting Clients Ready to Testify and Preparing for Expert Witnesses. STATE BAR COLLEGE SPRING TRAINING: WINNING BEFORE TRIAL 2008.
Competing Jurisdictions (with J. Loveless). 2008 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Witness Preparation in Family Law Cases (with S. Naylor and Judge D. Haddock). 2008 POVERTY LAW CONFERENCE.
Custom Fit Your Possession Order (with S. Naylor). 2007 STATE BAR COLLEGE SUMMER SCHOOL.
Witness Preparation (Does Practice Always Make Perfect?). STATE BAR COLLEGE “SPRING TRAINING” 2007 WINNING BEFORE TRIAL.
Maximizing the Take at a Final Property Hearing (with J. Loveless). 2007 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Witness Preparation (Does Practice Always Make Perfect?). 2006 ULTIMATE TRIAL NOTEBOOK.
Discovery Management. 2007 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION BOOT CAMP (PANEL 1).
The Not So Easy to Identify Executive Employee Deferred Compensation Plans and Relevant Issues in their Identification, Taxation, Valuation and Characterization (with J. Loveless). 2006 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Ethics in Drafting. 2005 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW DRAFTING COURSE.
The Attorney and Legal Assistant Team (with J. Loveless). 2005 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION INSTITUTE.
Initial Client Contact (with S. Naylor). 2005 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE (FAMILY LAW BOOT CAMP).
Ethical Traps (with B. Webb, W. Burgower and L. DeAngelis). 2004 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION INSTITUTE.
Dealing with the Death, Disability or Retirement of a Solo Practitioner (with J. Loveless). 2003 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Drafting Before and After Mediation (with J. Loveless and J. Tull). 2002 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW DRAFTING COURSE.
Temporary & Protective Order Traps (with J. Loveless). 2002 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
When the Agreement Isn’t Agreeable – Defending and Attacking Mediated Settlement and Rule 11 Agreements (with J. Loveless). 2001 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Mediation: Be Prepared and Have a Winning Notebook (with J. Loveless). 2000 ULTIMATE TRIAL NOTEBOOK CH. 1 and 2001 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Characterization and Tracing (with G. Nickelson, S. Beckman, B. Beverly and R. Accipiter). 1999 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Law Office Economics (with J. Loveless). 1999 ADVANCED FAMILY LAW COURSE.
Mediation - Be Prepared (with J. Loveless). 1999 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION.
Handling a divorce involving a closely-held corporation (valuation, alter ego, Jensen, and other claims (with J. Loveless)). 1998 MARRIAGE DISSOLUTION.