It’s one thing to receive notice of mandatory attendance at an upcoming judicial hearing if you live a few blocks from the courthouse.It’s quite another if you’re deployed on active duty as a military member serving in a remote overseas area....
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Proactive response to violation of a family law enforcement order
Some – candidly, many – divorcing Texas couples view marital dissolution in terms akin to a drawn-out sporting contest, perhaps a marathon. Many divorces have multiple and sometimes contested issues to sort through, and it is understandable why some...
Are Texas family law court orders immutable and set in stone?
Texas divorces are sometimes comparatively simple affairs, of course. Some couples are wed for only a short time and do not envision any problematic or otherwise challenging issues arising in their divorce or following a marital dissolution.Many of those impending...
Military divorce: similar to civilian dissolutions … yet different
The same, yet different.That is the essential bottom line imparted in one in-depth online overview of military divorce as compared with civilian decouplings. That primer notes that divorce for both servicemembers and civilians alike routinely touches on common points....
Co-parenting through the school year
In a matter of days, your children will be heading back to school. You may want more than anything for this school year to start as smoothly as possible for both you and the kids. Any conflict between you and your ex may set a negative tone for the year, and you...
Is child support modification on your mind?
Though many individuals may feel relieved when their divorce proceedings come to an end, you likely knew that you would continue to have a connection with your ex-spouse because you two had children together. Though the child custody and support arrangements worked in...
Don’t make divorce financially harder than it is
As this blog has discussed before, in the event of a divorce, a married couple's property will have to be divided according to the community property laws in force in Texas.What this means is that a resident of the Killeen and Fort Hood area is going to have to live...
Texas offers protection to victims, children of domestic violence
Like other states, Texas takes domestic violence seriously on multiple levels. For instance, in addition to criminal charges, Texas family law judges have the authority to restrict custody, that is conservatorship, and visitation upon hearing credible evidence that...
Handling property division is a multi-step process
As is the case in other states, when a couple in Killeen or Fort Hood spit up either through a divorce or otherwise, property will often have to be divided between them.When the couple is married, this will mean dividing the property according to Texas's community...
Overview of how child support gets figured in Texas
Unlike several other states, Texas uses what is called a net income approach to figuring child support. What this means is that a Killeen parent's income, and only that income, will be what determines the support obligation of that parent.Basically, income includes...