3 Reasons to Love Summer Possession Time After Divorce If you are a divorced parent or have temporary orders in a divorce that is pending you likely have an order that has some kind of extended summer time with your kids. If you have Standard Possession no matter what type of conservator you are you [...]
Summer Possession Options in Texas Summer time can be a challenge or an opportunity. In a Texas divorce, the Family Code possession schedule has one type of schedule for the school year and includes longer periods of time with each parent for the summer. And, if the schedule the Family Code contains doesn’t look like [...]
3 Ways to Simplify Your Divorce Learn – Simplify Your Divorce When you have decided that divorce is the solution to your situation it is time to begin working. It is time to find out as much information about your marital estate, your separate estate if you have one, any and all debts, your [...]
Uncontested Divorce We get a lot of calls in the office from people who tell us they have an uncontested divorce. Truth is, they don’t all have uncontested divorces, for lots of different reasons that we’re not going to go into today. But that brings me to this question -what is an uncontested divorce? Is [...]
Divorce Basics – Step by Step Divorce isn’t easy, but knowing more about divorce basics and the process can make it easier to understand. I try to give my clients a good amount of information to help them throughout the divorce process but not overload them. I give it to them from the beginning [...]
Everything will be divided 50/50, right? One of the questions that I hear a lot, both in the office and in casual conversations is about dividing property in a divorce. When people are talking about divorce the question ‘how is everything going to be divided 50/50?' always seems to get asked. The answer to that [...]
Tips for Summer and Spring Break Summer and spring break go hand-in-hand. Spring break is here or almost here for almost everyone in North Texas. We will have to change our clocks soon because 'Spring Forward' is almost here. And that means that, believe it or not, summer is almost here. And, for divorce [...]
Dress Code Not Optional Everywhere we go everyday has a dress code whether it is casual or formal. A tuxedo doesn't work at the water park and swim trunks don't work at a construction site. The Denton County District Court dress code just became published for all attending court on February 22, 2016. The memorandum [...]
*Update: Effective, January 20, 2017, there is a new Denton County Standing Order. See this post: Denton County Standing Order 2017 and find the new Order here. 2015 Denton County Standing Order – Updates In some counties in North Texas, when a new divorce or family law case is filed, there is already an order [...]
Prepare for Divorce – State of Your Marriage Is Divorce an option? Should you prepare for divorce? Are you unsure about the state of your marriage? Are you in a position where you are unsure of your future in your marriage? If so, you may be asking how do you prepare for divorce? You [...]