Dr. Mary Liz Curtner-Smith

Dr. Mary Elizabeth Curtner-Smith is Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  Her research focuses on child development, the effects of parental divorce on children, and parent-child attachment relationships.  She consults on child custody cases and is trained to assist disputing parents mediate parenting plans.  She has worked on the Parenting Plans Project with colleagues from the Alabama Law Institute in Tuscaloosa, Alabama since 2014