Top 10 Questions Family Law Clients Ask
Every family law matter is different. Since I began practicing law, I have probably handled hundreds of cases, each one with a different fact pattern and each client with a different personality. However, I have noticed that many of the same questions come up in initial client meetings. I have tried to compile the ten […]
Celebrity Divorce is Example of Enforceability of Premarital Agreements
The wife of celebrity chef Bobby Flay does not want the couple’s premarital agreement to be enforced in their upcoming divorce. However, under Texas law, she would probably lose. Stephanie March, an actress who has appeared on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, married Flay 10 years ago. The couple signed a premarital agreement which, […]
Change Your Beneficiaries After Divorce
When a divorce is complete, many people do not change the beneficiaries on their life insurance policies or their retirement benefits. Some people just assume that their ex-spouse cannot inherit their property, and others do not think about it at all. After all, Sections 9.301 and 9.302 of the Texas Family Code deal with this […]
How Do You Keep Your Separate Property Separate?
Too many times, clients only start to think in terms of community or separate property when it is too late and they are going through a divorce. They may have had property before marriage, or received an inheritance. However, during the marriage, they have commingled the separate property with community property, and did not keep good […]