Summary of Common Family Law Terms – Over the last few months I have written about the legal concepts related to marriage and attempted to break these concepts into bite-size pieces over a series of blogs. We’ve covered some serious ground in that time – around 15 or so blogs – and my hope is…
Read articleThe curious case of the tort and tortfeasor – While sitting at my desk last night debating which direction to take my next blog, two words kept popping up as I read through a chapter on family liability – tort and tortfeasor. These are common legal words for someone like me who has been practicing…
Read articleFamily Rights and Duties, For Better Or for Worse … For better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, till death do us part. Those are powerful wedding vows, aren’t they? If you are thinking about getting married, remember that marriage is not only a sacred institution – it is a…
Read articleWhat is a gestational agreement? – In my previous blog I discussed the parent-child relationship, its legal impact, and the various ways it can be established. One way is through a gestational agreement. We touched on this briefly at the time, but it was too detailed a topic to throw at you in the same…
Read articleWhat is a premarital agreement? – I’m skipping ahead a little bit here, but since my family law blogs over the past month and a half or so have focused on marriage and everything that it entails – the various types, who can, who cannot, legal issues, et cetera – I thought this would be…
Read articleMeretricious Relationships – Complex and Damaging – Just reading “meretricious” is complex, don’t ya think? The easiest way to explain this type of relationship – is that it is an “un-marriage.” A relationship is deemed meretricious when two people are living together but have absolutely no intention of getting married – formally or informally. Unlike…
Read articleMarriage Confusion – What is Putative Marriage? Marriage is a sacred and wonderful institution between two people who love each other. But it can also be the basis for plenty of confusion in the legal system, especially if entered into unlawfully. Believe it or not, illegal marriages happen all the time. And one is called…
Read articleAre You Truly Common-Law Married? Despite what you may think you know about common-law marriage, it is not as informal as it sounds. The state of Texas is as specific as it can be with its laws regarding informal marriage for the simple reason that – God love em – there are people who believe…
Read articleSo you are young — very young — and in love. And you want to get married. Depending on your family situation, this could either be music to your parent’s ears or the sort of news that prompts the famous mom and dad line, “Over my dead body!” From a legal advice perspective, I urge…
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Create a Stronger Marriage – My career as a family lawyer has afforded me the unique opportunity to evaluate relationships between people from most ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds. This experience has led me to five inescapable actions that we must take if we are going to create stronger relationships. Get Right With God. Too…
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