Maria L. Worthington practices in the areas of business law, real estate development, land use planning, mediation and family law. She assists clients with the local government processes connected with land use and real estate development and negotiates encroachment agreements, easement agreements, economic development incentives and other agreements essential to real estate development. Maria serves as a mediator for domestic relations and general civil matters. In addition, she handles family law matters with an emphasis on dissolutions of marriage involving complex marital estates.

Business & Professional Affiliations:

• Indiana Registered Civil Mediator

• Indiana Registered Domestic Relations Mediator

• Indiana Registered Mortgage Foreclosure Mediator

• Evansville Bar Association (2008-2009, Board of Directors), Family Law (2005-2006, Chairman) and Real Estate Law Section Member; Continuing Legal Education Committee (2001-2004, past chairman; Long Range Planning Task Force (2003); past producer of Young Lawyers Boot Camp)

• Indiana State Bar Association, Family Law and Land Use Planning Section Member

• Brooks American Inns of Court

• Pro Tem Hearing Officer, City of Evansville Code Enforcement Hearing Authority Board (2004-2009)

• Former Assistant City Attorney for Evansville (2000-2003)

Community/Civic Affiliations:

• Vanderburgh Humane Society, Inc., Board of Directors (2000-2006)
  (President-2006, Vice President-2005)

• Reitz Home Preservation Society, Inc., Board of Trustees (2000-2004)

• A Network of Evansville Women (ANEW) , Member

• Leadership Evansville Graduate (2001)

• Community Volunteer: Volunteer Lawyer Program; Talk to a Lawyer Program; Albion Fellows Bacon Center Domestic Violence Assistance Program; Red Mass Committee; University of Southern Indiana E-business Curriculum Committee; University of Evansville Mentor Net; Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana (past membership drive committee chair); Reitz Home Preservation Society, Inc.-Mystery Event, Victorian Gala, Bylaws Chair/Editor and Education Committee (co-author of children’s workbook for use in the EVSC); Operation City Beautiful Annual Fund Drive; YMCA Annual Fund Drive; Judge-University of Evansville student oral arguments; Speaker-“Careers in the Legal Profession,” Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation/Henry Reis School (2005).

Publications and Seminar Presentations:

• "Real Estate Development, Plat and Subdivision Law in Indiana" (2006)

• “Legal Issues in Starting and Running a Business,” Fifth Third Women’s Financial Group (2005)

• “The Nuts and Bolts of Serving on a Not-for-Profit Board of Directors,” Evansville Bar Association, Seminar Chair, Presenter, Contributing Author (2004)

• “Local Zoning Laws and Abandoned Vehicle Ordinance Enforcement,” United Neighborhoods of Evansville (UNOE) (2003)

• “Code Enforcement,” Annual Conference of Neighborhood Associations’ Focus Council (2002)

• “Ethics in Multi-Disciplinary Practice,” Brooks American Inns of Court (2001)

• “Legal Issues Symposium: The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)and Other Legal Issues for Universities,” University of Evansville Fall Faculty Conference (2001)

• “Code Enforcement Law and The Housing Court System,” United Neighborhoods of Evansville (UNOE) (2001)

• “Forum on Race and Gender Fairness in the State Judicial System,” Facilitator, Indiana Supreme Court (2001)