Do I Have to Tell My Divorce Lawyer Everything? What Texas Clients Need to Know Yes. You need to tell your divorce lawyer everything. The affair you haven’t admitted to anyone. The credit card debt … Read more
People Do Things in the Heat of Separation. Here’s What That Actually Means for Your Case. When a marriage starts falling apart, people don’t always make perfect decisions. They react. They protect themselves. They lose … Read more
Violating a Court Order in a Military Divorce: Your Rights Under Texas Law A court order is a court order. Military service does not create a legal exception to that, and a spouse who thinks … Read more
Modifying Custody in Texas: What You Have to Prove Before a Judge Will Change Anything Custody orders are not permanent. They can be modified when life changes in ways that affect your child. But Texas … Read more
Texas Grandparents’ Rights Explained: Filing for Visitation and Custody Texas is one of the hardest states in the country for grandparents to win visitation. The law starts from the position that a fit parent gets … Read more
How Unmarried Parents Establish Custody Rights I got a call recently “We were never married, so how do I actually get custody?” The answer is a SAPCR, short for Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship. It’s … Read more
Phone Tracking, Spyware, and Stalking: What Texas Divorce Law Actually Allows Clients ask me this all the time, and the honest answer is: it depends on how he’s doing it. Some forms of tracking are … Read more
Proving Emotional Abuse in a Texas Divorce: A Documentation Guide You already know what happened. You lived it. The question now is how to make sure a Texas court knows it too, and that starts … Read more
Military Child Support in Texas: How BAH and Other Allowances Are Counted Yes, Basic Allowance for Housing counts as income for child support in Texas. This catches a lot of people off guard, military parents … Read more
Divorcing? Why Texting Your Ex Can Backfire Emotionally and Legally If there’s one piece of advice I wish every client would follow from day one, it’s this: don’t text your ex during the divorce. Even … Read more