Child Custody

Families can have a difficult time coping with major holidays following a marital break-up. If you're a newly-separated or divorced Houston parent, you probably feel anxious about holiday obligations, commitments and changes to traditions you once shared with a...

Starting over with a clean slate is important to some Houston ex-spouses. Sometimes, putting a lot of physical distance between you and an ex is part of that plan. However, divorcing parents cannot pick up and move without considering the boundaries of child custody...

Separated and divorced Houston parents agree to living arrangements that benefit shared children. At some point, for employment or other reasons, a parent may decide to relocate. A Texas family court must approve the move, particularly when it involves a significant...

The end of a marriage is a physical, emotional and legal separation. One of the most difficult issues for divorcing Houston parents to resolve can be child custody. Disagreements that cannot be worked out go before a Texas family court and sometimes a jury.Parents'...

Texas family courts encourage the continuation of strong parent-child ties when parents separate or divorce. Some parents, harboring hard feelings toward an ex, find child custody or visitation arrangements difficult to support. Most parents resolve issues over...

The word "conservator" is commonly used to describe an individual appointed by a court to oversee the care of a property or of an incapacitated person. In Texas, conservator is the legal term for a custodial parent. Conservatorships are custody arrangements for...

Houston spouses who choose to end a marriage often take hard feelings with them when they separate. The emotional sting of divorce can fade as former partners move into the future independently. However, post-divorce lives for parents include exes, since former...

Texas parents take notice: Your child may actually be adjusting well to your divorce! Even though family law experts often talk about the negative side of divorce -- including child custody disputes -- parents can actually succeed in helping their children through...

Unclear and conflicting laws produce inconsistent legal outcomes. Judges from state to state or even one jurisdiction to the next can have different interpretations of the same law. Right now, Texas marriage laws and other laws dependent upon them are in a state of...

A child custody case in Texas has been quite a wild ride for the parents of a young girl since it has called into question the way that Texas views same-sex marriage. This was something that had been banned in the state, but a ruling earlier in the year said that...