Child Custody

Who Should Dictate the Strategy in Your divorce case?

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageSeptember 15, 2016

Who Should Dictate the Strategy in Your divorce case? People are often at logger heads with their divorce lawyer over the strategy to adopt. Who Should Dictate the Strategy in Your divorce case? to take the divorce case forward. They can huff and puff and argue vehemently to make sure the lawyer adopts the strategy they…

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Conservatorship Suits

Child Custody, Divorce, Insights, MarriageSeptember 7, 2016

Conservatorship Suits – A digestible overview With all this talk in previous blogs about suits affecting the parent-child relationship, I think now is a great time to discuss conservatorship suits – specifically, what they are and who can be appointed as the conservator for a child. First thing’s first, a conservator is a person appointed…

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What You Should Know About Your Divorce Lawyer

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageSeptember 1, 2016

What You Should Know About Your Divorce Lawyer Not everyone is ready to go through a divorce. Divorce can often be a hard pill to swallow for the couple who decides to part ways. This is especially true for a person who has been forced into divorcing their partner. Irrespective of who took the decision…

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Intervenors – Sticking their nose where it belongs

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageAugust 30, 2016

Intervenors – Sticking their nose where it belongs There are plenty of people who naturally become involved in a divorce case. The obvious ones range from the presiding judge to mediators, counselors, lawyers, friends and family and the spouses themselves. Then there are those who are called intervenors. An intervenor is anyone who can, for…

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Dissolving a marriage with children

Child Custody, Child Support, Divorce, Insights, MarriageAugust 29, 2016

Dissolving a marriage with children – a digestible overview – Let’s move on in the conversation of divorce suits that involve children and dive into the process itself. Not to worry, this blog is not meant to inundate you with too much information – just a digestible overview. As stated before, these suits can be…

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Child-Custody determination

Child Custody, Child Support, Family Law, InsightsAugust 17, 2016

Child-Custody determination – The plan for the next few blogs is to dive into divorce suits affecting the parent-child relationship. To this point we have mostly discussed suits that do not involve children. While painful in their own right, these suits keep the court from having to deal with a much bigger issue – your…

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What Assets Are Part of Your Divorce and Which Ones Are Not

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageAugust 15, 2016

What Assets Are Part of Your Divorce and Which Ones Are Not Some states in the US are not community property states while others are. The State of Texas falls in the latter category. A community property state is one that accepts that all property that is made after the marriage is capable of being…

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Alimony defined

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, InsightsAugust 2, 2016

Alimony defined – When a couple decides to go through the process of a divorce, there is a lot more that goes into it besides simply appearing before a judge, signing a piece of paper, and then going their separate ways. Depending on the case, there are division of property concerns, child custody issues and,…

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Preparing for your day first day in a Family Law Court

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageAugust 1, 2016

Preparing for your day first day in a Family Law Court Going through a divorce is one thing and having to visit the court’s hearing is quite another. Family law courts are the place where your divorce cases are heard. They not only hear cases of divorce they are also the place where couples fight…

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How to Keep Your Child Away from a Toxic Divorce

Child Custody, Divorce, Insights, MarriageJuly 1, 2016

How to Keep Your Child Away from a Toxic Divorce If you think the torment and pain of going through a divorce is too much for you to handle, imagine what it would feel like to your children. Children of broken marriages are adversely affected by a divorce. It can fill them with guilt looking…

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