Child Custody

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...

A judge recently declared that the ban on same-sex marriage in Texas was unconstitutional. Strangely enough, the case that brought this abut focused more on divorce and child custody than marriage itself.It began in 2010, in Washington D.C., when two women decided to...

A five-year-old boy was abused and neglected by his biological farther to the point that he only weighed 26 pounds when he was found by the authorities. Even then, the police were only able to come to his aid before he died because of a call put in by the boy's older...

Texas first banned same-sex marriage, then had the ban challenged by the courts. This is something that is still being sorted out, but there is now another important event taking place in the state, and that is the first ever same-sex divorce filing. It is between two...