By NCFM
 David Pisarra, NCFM Adviser     
California native David T. Pizarra received his undergraduate degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis Maryland, graduating in 1989 with a double major in Philosophy and Mathematics, with minors in French and Attic Greek. He was twice the yearbook editor in chief, president of the King William Players, the school’s theater group, and chief promoter and organizer of the school’s annual graduation celebration.
Pisarra graduated from the University of West Los Angeles School of Law, where he specialized in Family Law, graduating in 1995. He specializes in the field of Father’s and Men’s rights in Family Law cases. Domestic Violence cases have become a subspecialty with the increase in the number of cases filed each year as a way to gain control of child custody, marital assets and do essentially a summary divorce proceeding.
As an author, he has written several books; A Man’s Guide To Divorce Strategy, A Man’s Guide To Child Custody, A Man’s Guide to Divorce Strategy, The Entrepreneur’s Handbook and What About Wally? Co-parenting a Pet With Your Ex. He is a weekly columnist for the Santa Monica Daily Press (www.SMDP.com) and has contributed to Huffington Post, GoodMenProject.com, Divorce360.com, Family Lawyer Magazine, and California Lawyer.
He is an expert on child custody laws both domestically and internationally. He teaches continuing education courses for other lawyers on Thomson/REUTERS and his video trainings are available at YouTube.com/Mensfamilylaw.
Hosting the Men’s Family Law Podcast, he has interviewed experts in parental alienation cases like author Mike Jeffries and psychologists Dr. Carol Hirshfield and Dr. Amy J. Baker.
As a public speaker Mr. Pisarra has presented for Children’s Institute’s Fatherhood conference 2015, Open Circle Society (Ajijic, Mexico), BlogPaws Pet Blogger Conference, Santa Monica Rotary Club, the City of Santa Monica, and many other venues.
He is regularly sought out as an expert by the media to comment on high profile divorce, child custody and domestic violence cases by publications such as Maxim, OK, Hollywood Reporter, Wall Street Journal, and Business Insider.
David Pisarra was elected by the National Board to Adviser August 2015.
