For over 30 years I have been helping clients with their family matters. My philosophy is that divorce doesn’t have to be ugly or messy if the spouses are willing to try and settle things amicably. In such cases, I will give the maximum effort to counsel and assist the couple in working out the details and lend all of my experience in coming up with innovative solutions to help smooth out the bumps.
Sometimes the parties just can’t work things out and we have to take it to the judge. I feel that my background and experience puts me on equal footing with any family lawyer in the state of Texas. I chose to stay in Tomball rather than set up my practice “inside the loop” in Houston because I would rather spend my time among the warm and friendly people in the “Hometown With A Heart” than collect the large fees of a “downtown lawyer”. I’m proud to be a country lawyer and proud to represent the people who put their trust in me.
Virtually all courts now require the parties to go to mediation before the court will hear the case either for temporary orders or for a final trial on the merits. Mediation is different from arbitration.
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The parent who has the right to establish the primary residence of the child is called the “primary conservator”. The parent who is not the primary conservator is expected to pay child support to the primary conservator... Learn more ...
If a child is born to a couple who are not married to each other and if the father’s name is not on the birth
certificate, then the mother can file a suit in court to declare the biological father to be the parent of the child. This suit is called a Suit Affecting Parent-Child Relationship or “SAPCR” for short.
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Before we talk about premarital agreements it helps to review what is separate and community property. When a couple marries, there is a presumption that everything they own is community property and that they each own an undivided ½ interest in that property. However, that is not strictly true.
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