North Texas Divorce & Family Law
"Current news and updates on recent developments in Texas family law."
Author: Jimmy Verner practices at Verner & Brumley in Dallas.
Blawg Related Categories: Family Law • States • Texas • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from North Texas Divorce & Family Law
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Tex Parte Blog Features iPhone Child Support App
Texas Lawyer's "Tex Parte Blog" posted a nice blurb about our iPhone app that calculates Texas guideline child support: Texas child support? There's an app for that. Jimmy Verner Jr. (pictured), a shareholder in Dallas'…
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iPhone Application Calculates Texas Child Support
Verner & Brumley, P.C., announces that Jimmy Verner has created an iPhone application that calculates Texas guideline child support. With only five inputs, anyone - whether an attorney or a person in the middle of…
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Visitation and the Six O'Clock Hour
The 81st Texas Legislature has adjourned, having passed two major family law bills. The bills are Senate Bill 866 and House Bill 1012. They make many changes to Texas family law. This post is the…
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Preparing for Divorce
There are many things one should do to prepare for divorce. Vancouver's MacLean Family Law Group has prepared a checklist. Although not every item will apply in every case, it is the most complete checklist…
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Military Retirement Pay Does Not Include Disability Pay
This blog entry might be subtitled, "Ah, but what a difference a few words makes!" Here's the background: When a service member retires, he or she is entitled to receive military retirement pay, either voluntary…
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Premarital Agreement Signed "Involuntarily"
In Martin v. Martin, the Dallas Court of Appeals ruled that a trial court had erred by granting summary judgment that a marital property agreement was valid. The wife admitted she had signed the agreement, but…
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A Primer on Contempt of Court
Justice Rose Vela of the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has authored a Memorandum Opinion in which she thoroughly and lucidly discusses contempt of court. The opinion is linked below, but here are some of…
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The Quirky Language of Child Support Laws
Often, after divorce, a former spouse moves the court to increase or to decrease child support. When this occurs, Texas Family Code section 156.401(b) states that when the court ultimately makes a ruling on the…
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An Unusual Case of Splitting Custody of Siblings
When parents are divorced, almost invariably the children stay together if there is more than one minor child. In other words, if one parent has custody of one of the children, that parent almost always…
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Fraudulent Transfer of Sole Management Property
This is a case of an interesting idea that didn't work. The community estate owned all the shares in the husband's machine shop. When the wife filed for divorce, the husband transferred 49% of the…