Recently I have had more than one person ask me about establishing paternity and doing a name change after a father has passed away. There is an ...
As medical science has advanced, parents have to enter into unique arrangements with third parties to conceive children. For decades, parents have ...
In the past 12 months, my office has represented three different Husbands each going through their own Texas divorce who all had cases in which their ...
The law in the state of Texas is that a man is legally presumed to be the father of any child that is born to his wife either during the course of ...
The Texas Attorney General & Child Support When it comes to issues related to child custody and paternity, many people are unaware of the role that ...
The nuclear family of the 1950s is no longer the norm in the United States if it ever was in the first place. In today’s world non-parents (including ...
In Texas, the Office of the Attorney General oversees the payment of child support . It is likely that if you already have a child support order in ...
If you are a mother reading this blog post and are questioning who your child's biological father is, you have likely thought more than once about how ...
The word Paternity put means the legal determination of who the father of a child is. Being the child's biological father is the first step towards ...
As it sometimes happens in Texas Child Protective Services cases, the child involved will not have a legally established father. Obviously, the child ...
Statistics would tell us that more children are being born out of relationships where the parents are not married than ever before in the history of ...
Military parents have a great deal on their minds, both before setting off for deployment and while overseas. If you count yourself among those people ...
A scenario that a potential client recently presented to our office involved a mother wanting to add the father of her child to his birth certificate. ...
There are a number of circumstances in which a parent, guardian or other conservator of a child may want the child's last name to be changed. At ...
There is more than one way to skin a cat, and there is more than one way to establish paternity in Texas. Let's start today's blog post by going ...
In the event that you and your spouse are getting a divorce and you are not represented by an attorney then today’s blog post should be helpful to ...
It is a weekly if not a daily occurrence that fathers reach out to us to find out what their rights are in Texas in regards to their children. In the ...
In yesterday’s blog post from the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC , we introduced our topic of child support cases from the noncustodial parent’s ...
It is an infrequent occurrence that a pregnant woman goes through a divorce. Pregnancy is a stressful time to begin with. Adding onto that, the ...
I get questions frequently from clients and potential clients regarding a wide range of subjects. I hear a lot of interesting things, but normally the ...
You will often hear about divorce connected with family law cases in in Texas . I will say that the majority of people that walk through the door of ...
Recently, a friend and fellow attorney asked me some questions regarding one of his cases. He was representing the husband in a divorce case . The ...
A benefit of being one of the attorneys working at the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC is that I have the opportunity to meet with many in our ...
If you are facing down a divorce and are pregnant yourself or your spouse is pregnant , you likely have a lot of questions on your mind. Not only are ...
Determining paternity in a Texas child support case is the initial, and quite frankly, most important step in the entire case. When it comes to ...
Many people are under the mistaken belief that the law gives mothers more rights than fathers in Texas. However, that is no longer the case. The new ...
If it is unknown who the biological father of your child is, a paternity suit may be filed to make a legal determination of parentage. This type of ...
If you are not sure that you are the biological father to a child (or if the child’s mother is not sure) then neither of you should sign an ...
Being in a position where you need a divorce means that your life may feel like it's traveling at the speed of light and in slow motion all at the ...
Anyone who has gone through a pregnancy, whether a mother or father, can understand the difficulties and stresses associated with the nine-month wait ...