Navigating the Community Property Laws in Texas When a marriage ends, one of the most challenging tasks often is dividing the debts and assets accumulated during the marriage. In Texas, as in eight other states, the obligations and assets accrued by … [Read more...]
Visitation Disputes in Texas
What Are Your Rights When You’re Wrongfully Denied Visitation? What Are the Penalties for Wrongfully Denying Visitation? When your marriage has ended and you have minor children, your primary concern, particularly if you’re the non-custodial parent, … [Read more...]
Summer Co-Parenting Tips for Families of Divorce
Strategies for Custody and Visitation When Your Children Are Out of School For nearly nine months of the year, your children are in school Monday through Friday. You may have after-school care until you get home from work, but your parental … [Read more...]
What Is an Emancipated Minor?
How Can a Minor Become Emancipated in Texas? What Are the Benefits of Emancipation? When we’re young, particularly in our teens, we long to be adults, to enjoy what we consider to be the benefits of adulthood. In most situations, we must wait until … [Read more...]
Does a Father Need to Be Named on a Texas Birth Certificate to Have Parental Rights?
Can You Seek Custody or Visitation If You’re Not Named? If you’re like most parents, your children mean everything in the world to you. You may not be able to live with them every day, whether because of divorce or because the child was born out of … [Read more...]
The Changing Landscape of Divorce and Family Law in Texas
Recent Updates in Texas Family Law and How They Affect You State legislators chose to focus significantly on family law matters in 2023, enacting 37 changes to the Texas Family Code. That included amendments to existing statutes, as well as … [Read more...]
How Much Alimony Does a Military Spouse Get?
The Things the Court Will Need to Know to Dissolve Your Marriage You're on active duty in service to your country, but your marriage is on the rocks. You're currently stationed in Texas or your divorce proceeding is being resolved in the family … [Read more...]
Why Settling is Often Better than Going to Trial in Divorce and Family Law Matters
When it comes to family law matters, there is a common misconception that going to trial is the only way to resolve a dispute. However, the truth is that more than 95% of divorces and family law matters never make it to a final trial. Instead, they … [Read more...]
Traveling In and Outside of Texas with Minor Children of Divorce
Are There Travel Restrictions? What Must Custodial and Non-Custodial Parents Do Before Traveling? We live in a mobile society. It's fairly common for most of us to have family members that live in distant communities in the state of Texas or in … [Read more...]
Can a Father Get Custody in a Texas Divorce Case?
How Does Texas Decide Who Gets Physical Custody of a Minor Child? It's a common misperception that, when a couple divorces and there are minor children in the home, the mother will get physical custody, unless there's a showing that the mother is … [Read more...]
We have your best interests in mind at Bailey & Galyen
Earlier today, a woman came in with a three-month-old baby. She wanted to establish custody, visitation, and child support. She had the option to pay me several thousand dollars to handle these matters or to go to the attorney general's office and … [Read more...]
Is it possible for my ex-spouse to leave the state with my kids?
In Texas, the determining factor with respect to custody and visitation is the best interests of the child. Furthermore, family law judges in Texas prefer arrangements that give minor children access to both parents. In most custody orders, the court … [Read more...]
