Family Law Blog

June 2019 Persons going through a divorce need to know that debts ordered to be paid by the other party in a Final Decree of Divorce (“Decree”) might actually not get paid. Some people believe a Decree covers all their concerns about a debt if it orders the other...

July 2019 It’s summertime; a time for fun in the sun, pools, lakes, and keeping kids occupied. Stated another way, parents of youngsters will need to enroll their kids in one after another activity that will hopefully burn the limitless energy children possess. These...

August 2019 In Texas, it’s not uncommon for a court to order that the primary residence of a child must be restricted to a particular geographic area. In fact, it is vastly more common than not that a court will do so if either parent so requests. The reason is that...

March 2019 It is exceedingly rare today that a party to a Family Law case has no social media presence. To be sure, all of a party’s social media content is available to lawyers and courts for inspection to the extent it is relevant to the court case. How one behaves...

In Texas divorces, the law does not say community property must be split evenly down the middle between spouses. What it says is the court shall order a division of the estate of the parties in a manner that the court deems just and right, having due regard for the...