If you're on the verge of filing for divorce or splitting from a partner and you have children, it's likely that you're nervous about what sort of custody laws you might be facing in Texas. Of course nothing with divorce or custody of children is every simple, but we'll try to help. In Texas the [...]
Although Sandy has slowed down a few cases, there are a handful to continue watching this week in the Supreme Court as well as several legal events elsewhere. One of the cases that is on the full docket for the Supreme Court this week includes the "drug-sniffing" cases which concern p0lice drug dogs as well [...]
Even in divorce, there is an app for that. Technology helps us in plenty of other aspects of our daily lives, and now it can make your divorce just a bit easier. Every little bit helps when you're in the middle of the divorce process. Five Apps to Make Your Divorce Easier 1. The 2Houses [...]
Recent surveys done by Lawyers.com have shown that nearly 60% of adults lack a last will and testament. It's not always a pleasant topic to consider, but it's incredibly important that you have a will, or the state where you live will make the decision on how to divide your assets. If you die intestate, [...]
If you're considering a divorce, you're not alone. Depending upon with whom you speak, divorce rates in Texas are somewhere between 41 percent and 51 percent. Divorce is never pleasant, but there are some basic steps that you can take and a few things to keep in mind to hopefully make the process a bit [...]
Texas Wrongful Death Lawsuit Results in Large Settlement, from the Panola Watchman Trendsetter Construction and its employee, Nathan Richardson, have agreed to pay $10,500,000.00 to settle a wrongful death case in Upshur County. The case arises from a Mesquite woman’s death on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2012 from a three-vehicle wreck that occurred between Beckville and [...]
TxDOT Urges Drivers to Get a Summer P.A.S.S. (via PR Newswire) AUSTIN, Texas, June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Summer, a time for fun and celebration. But it also brings many alcohol-related crash fatalities. Because of this, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is launching its first summer drinking and driving outreach program [...]
While assumptions can be made as to where your money should go even if you don't update your will (for example, when you adopt a child, normally part of your estate will go to that child even if you don't explicitly mention him or her in your will) it's important to update it after any [...]
Round Rock, Texas: A few years ago a Texas man was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of his ninth DWI. A Texas judge decided that rather than chance him remaining in public and seriously injuring someone, it was safer and better to remove him from society. Bobby Stovall, 54, was driving in [...]
A new divorce hotel concept allows couples to divorce over one weekend at a hotel. The couple enters on Friday married and leaves Sunday with divorce papers in hand. Jim Halfens, the Netherlands entrepreneur who developed the concept, already has an operational Divorce Hotel in the Netherlands. According to the New York Times, a couple [...]