Divorce

Texas Community Property

Texas is a community property state much like most of the rest of the southwestern United States.  That means that all property acquired after the date of the marriage is community property.  Separate property is property that is owned prior to the marriage, property...

Divorce and Bankruptcy

Divorce and bankruptcy often go hand in hand with each other.  First, in many marriages there are two income earners and most of the time one earner makes substantially more than the other person.  Sometimes debt is incurred during the marriage, and there is no...

Contract Interpretation

According to an article by Richard Orsinger, the most basic concept of contract interpretation in Texas is not explicitly stated by the courts, but it is inherently and nearly all they do: it is the idea that a contract is interpreted objectively and not subjectively....

Polygamy and CPS

In a 2008 case out of Austin, the Texas Appellate Court heard two decisions involving the removal of children from a ranch outside Eldorado, Texas.  The decision in Bradshaw is based on the same facts and arguments as the decision in Steed.  In those cases Writs of...

Grandparent Custody

In the Interest of M.P.B., a Child, the Texas appellate court out of Dallas heard a case where the mother and the father where appointed joint managing conservators of the child, with the mother as the primary. The mother and the child lived with the grandmother for a...

Same-Sex Divorce

We have generally two separate areas of jurisdiction to appeal to in case law: state and federal. Because federalism is so strong in the US (the political system in which sovereignty is constitutionally divided between a central governing authority, the federal...

McKinney, Texas Divorce

Divorce in McKinney, Texas and all cities that are in Collin County takes place in the district courts located in McKinney, Texas in the big new courthouse just west of Highway 75.  If the divorce is has children involved, it is called a Suit Affecting Parent Child...

Texas Child Support

Child support in Texas is largely determined by the Child Support Guidelines in the Texas Family Code.  It is typically calculated by multiplying the appropriate paying percentage according to the number of children the obligor has and the paying parent's net income....

SAPCR

A SAPCR is a Suit Affecting the Parent Child Relationship.  If there are children involved in a divorce proceeding between the mother and father then the child custody and child support must be addressed in the SAPCR divorce. Figuring out who the children should live...

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