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FINDLEY  \nhigh hurdles for military spouse attorneys. Due to frequent moves, military spouse attorneys often do not meet reciprocity requirements or the other conditions precedent to gain bar admission through an exception. Each state maintains different rules governing bar admission. Further complicating the matter, bar exams are only offered two times a year, which may or may not coincide with the relocation and can tack on months or possibly a year just to sit for the bar. The barriers to admission begin to snowball: thousands of dollars of bar preparation, a lengthy application, admission expenses, creatively explaining resume gaps, character and fitness examinations, days of testing, and months of waiting for bar results. Most attorneys tackle the bar admission process once, but military spouse attorneys face the grueling and expensive process every few years. These obstacles are daunting, complicated, and make it almost impossible for a military spouse attorney to maintain a legal career.  \nOn average, military servicemembers receive orders to move, sometimes with little or no notice, every two to three years. Signing up to serve in the military curtails the right to decline a move; doing so can lead to federal prosecution. Military families understand all too well that frequent moves are non-negotiable. Civilian families have the luxury of contemplating the pros and cons of a relocation and making an informed, prudent decision. A military family’s only decision after receiving permanent change of station orders involves if they move together or live apart. While the Department of Defense cannot order the servicemember’s family to move, maintaining the immediate familial structure is important to morale and thus national security.  \nMilitary spouses are 10 times more likely to have moved overstate lines in the past year than their civilian counterpart.1 For the military spouse attorney, frequent moves coupled with the barriers  \nSeptember 2016 • THE FEDERAL LAWYER • 35  \nto bar admission equate to an indefinite tabling and, sometimes, the end of a legal career. Military spouses have a higher unemployment rate and make considerably less than their civilian counterparts. For military spouse attorneys this translates into an approximate loss of $33,745 in income per year.2 The loss of income is compounded by immense student loan debt. In a recent survey, 43 percent of military spouse attorneys reported student loan debt totaling $80,000 or more, on par with national law school debt statistics.3  \nAsk almost any military spouse attorney and they will explain the toll on their career. Due to licensing barriers, Evelyn Guevara, a civilian Army contract and fiscal law attorney at Fort Carson, Colo. , stopped practicing altogether for four years while her husband,  \nfamily moved to South Carolina in the summer of 2008. Her husband received orders too late for her to take the February bar exam, they moved during the July exam, and, in the end, she decided not to take the South Carolina bar exam because her family would be moving again in 16 short months. (At that time, South Carolina did not have a military spouse licensing accommodation.) Like many military spouse attorneys, Magers-Vuono continues to maintain multiple state licenses in the event that her family again relocates to one of the states where she maintains an active law license.  \nGuevara’s and Magers-Vuono’s stories, filled with frequent moves, multiple law licenses, and employment gaps, are the norm, not the exception in the military spouse attorney community.  \nMilitary families with an attorney spouse often begin to question the viability of both a legal career and a career in the armed forces. Successfully balancing the challenges of those career paths requires amazing sacrifices from the entire family.  \nRichard, an Ai","cbCaindtx2Cj1Cp6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaindtx2Cj1Cp6","pdf",1448400,"English","# Operation Amendment\n## Bar admission barriers for military spouses\n## Impact of frequent moves on careers\n## Financial and educational consequences\n## Attorney case examples","[{\"question\":\"Why is bar admission especially difficult for military spouse attorneys?\",\"answer\":\"Frequent moves often prevent meeting reciprocity requirements or other prerequisites for bar admission exceptions. Bar exams are offered only twice a year, which may not align with relocation timing and can delay eligibility for months or longer.\"},{\"question\":\"How do frequent relocations affect a military spouse attorney’s ability to maintain a legal career?\",\"answer\":\"Moves can force repeated, expensive licensing processes and lead to indefinite delays or career interruptions. 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