Family Law

Possession and Access – Are they the same thing?

Child Custody, Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageSeptember 26, 2016

Possession and Access – Are they the same thing? – The terms possession and access sound a lot alike, and in many people’s mind, you can’t have one without the other. It’d be like having shoelaces with no shoes, or a CD without a CD player, right? After all, without possession, you can’t have access.…

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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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Conservators – Rights and Duties

Family Law, InsightsSeptember 13, 2016

Conservators – Rights and Duties As we discussed in our previous blog, a conservator is a person appointed by a judge to manage the financial affairs and/or daily life of a child. This person makes decisions on behalf of the child, and each of those decisions must be made with the child’s best interests in…

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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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Summary of Common Family Law Terms (Vol. III)

Divorce, Family Law, Insights, MarriageAugust 5, 2016

Summary of Common Family Law Terms (Vol. III) Let’s take a brief timeout and reflect on several important legal terms and phrases that have popped up in our blogs over the last few months. I do this because some of these terms have been discussed in broader detail, while others were mentioned in passing or…

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