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Life doesn't stop the day your custody order is signed. Jobs change. Parents move. Children get older and their needs shift. New partners come into the picture. Old arrangements that worked when your child was five stop working when they're twelve. And sooner or later, most parents with an existing custody or possession order find themselves asking the same question: "How do I change this?" Texas law does allow custody orders to be changed — but not casually, and not just bec

Almost every parent walking into our office with a custody case asks some version of the same question: "Why can't we just do 50/50?" It's a fair question. On paper, 50/50 custody sounds like the fairest possible arrangement — each parent gets equal time, no one is a "weekend parent," the child grows up with two homes instead of one home and one visitor. But under Texas family law, the honest answer is more complicated. 50/50 possession can be excellent for some families, dam

Most people walk into a family law attorney’s office without a clear picture of what’s coming. The not-knowing is often worse than the process itself. The case feels enormous when the path is invisible, and merely seeing the steps written out tends to make the next six to twelve months easier to handle. Here is an honest look at what a Texas divorce actually involves — what we’ll ask you, what the timeline looks like, what custody and child support really mean, what it costs,

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What does “sole custody” mean? It probably depends on who you ask. When some clients use the term, they mean only that they want to have physical custody of their child a majority of the time. For others, it means a type of custody in which the other parent’s rights are severely restricted or even terminated. This confusion may be, in part, because “sole custody” isn’t a legal term - at least, not in Texas. Instead, the Texas Family Code uses the term “conservatorship” to ref

For much of the twentieth century, Texas family courts had a habit of treating mothers as the default custodial parent and fathers as the visitor. That default is gone. Under the Texas Family Code as it exists today, a father has the same legal rights as a mother — the same right to custody, the same right to make decisions about the child's education and medical care, the same right to build a real day-to-day relationship with the child. The catch is that those rights are no

If parental alienation is present in a divorce or custody suit, a judge has many tools to tackle the issue. A judge will always consider the best interest of the child when making decisions. He or she may also order counseling, or even change the custody arrangement based on the severity of the alienation and compliance with orders. Several factors are considered when a judge is determining what course of action is in the best interest of a child . The following “ Holley Fa

When deciding custody issues, Courts are required to act in the best interest of the child. A related but separate question for Courts is whether a child’s physical health or emotional development will be “significantly impaired” by granting or denying a person access to the child. For example, the issue of “significant impairment” comes up when parents seek to modify a custody order within one year, when a parent seeks to change the temporary orders regarding which conserva