You step into your attorney’s office carrying years of questions that never really seemed important until now. Throughout your marriage, your spouse built a thriving business while you managed the home, cared for your children, and trusted that the financial future you were creating together was secure. Or perhaps you are the spouse who made…
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Imagine working hard for years to establish a successful business, including investing for retirement and purchasing valuable real estate, only to lose more than you need to because of unnecessary financial choices. The same can be true in high-net-worth divorces, and many times, neither party realizes they are potentially sabotaging themselves financially. If significant assets…
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Artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life. People use it to write emails, summarize information, answer questions, and even help make important decisions. However, there is a reason it is called artificial intelligence. It is artificial, and that distinction matters when you are dealing with something as personal, complicated, and life-changing as a divorce…
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, ie keeps staring at his bass boat, wondering about what some call the “50/50 Myth” of community property in Texas. Sitting in his driveway, he paid for it with overtime bonuses he had worked hard to earn. Now, he has been told that because Texas is a community property state, his soon-to-be ex-wife automatically…
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Divorce generally requires working through many of the same core legal issues: division of assets, spousal support, child custody, child support, etc. That said, no two divorces are the same. One case could involve spouses with limited assets, financially independent spouses, and no children. Another might be a high-net-worth divorce involving bickering spouses, millions of…
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It is natural to assume divorce is in the family law category by itself. After all, it is a family lawyer’s job to help spouses legally separate from each other, and with 50% of all marriages ending in divorce, it is safe to assume lawyers like us do not have time to handle any cases…
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Just when you thought you survived your first holiday season after divorce, you do a quick double-take and realize Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Granted, Valentine’s Day is not a recognized holiday like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanza, and New Year’s. It is also just one day compared to the others. But it is…
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You finalized your divorce almost 10 years ago. Your son was 7 at the time, and the divorce decree required you to make regular monthly child support payments to your former spouse. You have happily done so for all these years, but now that your son is 17 and about to graduate high school, another…
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For many people, divorce is such a chaotic event in their lives that it can feel like there is no hope for them to ever gain control of the situation. They will simply head in with the intention of leaning heavily on their family law attorney and hoping for the best. While we certainly empathize,…
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If you are a party in a family law case, there are generally two ways to approach the matter: settle out of court or go to court. But many people might wonder if one option is better than the other. After all, a well-negotiated settlement – child custody or property division, for example — could…
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