There are two ways that your parental rights can be terminated by a court in Texas: involuntarily and voluntarily . That is what we will be discussing ...
Facing circumstances in which you are concerned for your or your child’s safety can be extremely unsettling for a parent like yourself. If your spouse ...
Relinquishing one’s rights and duties as a parent in Texas can be easier said than done. One way that a parent can voluntarily relinquish their ...
Put, terminating your parental rights occurs when your rights to your child are taken away. This means that you are no longer your child's parent and ...
I recently had a gentleman come into the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC who had a question surrounding the issue of adoption of his wife’s child from ...
Unfortunately, not all family law cases in Texas have happy endings or happy beginnings, for that matter. While we would like to imagine a world where ...
An unfortunate part of our world today is that drug use is a reality in the homes of many children living in Texas. When parents use drugs in the ...
An unfortunate reality of some Texas Child Protective Services cases is that the parental rights you hold about your children can be terminated due to ...
In order to adopt a child, it is a requirement that the child’s legal parents either be deceased or have their parental rights terminated before the ...
Many people enter into a family law case in Texas with the mistaken idea that they are, above all else, attempting to win as much time with their ...
As it sometimes happens in Texas Child Protective Services cases, the child involved will not have a legally established father. Obviously, the child ...
If you are going through a difficult child custody or divorce case and are in need of practical solutions to the problems that you are facing, you ...
Today I met with a potential client asking for advice on whether they could terminate parental rights of their child's other parent. In this case the ...
The other day I had a consult with a husband and his wife because they had serious concerns regarding the grandparents of their kids. From my ...
By the time you have decided to file for divorce from your spouse, you will have hopefully thought long and hard about some goals that you would like ...
Parents can feel the burden of raising and providing for a child in tangible ways- beyond merely feeling overwhelmed or stressed out. For example, if ...
Being in a position where your parental rights are at risk of being terminated means that you have to make decisions that can affect the rest of your ...
In yesterday's blog post from the Law Office of Bryan Fagan , we introduced the topic of mental health problems and their impact on divorces in Texas. ...
If you are a parent reading this blog today, the odds are good that you are concerned about your relationship with your children. The reasons for that ...
You might wonder why a parent would ever want to terminate rights to their child, but this is a question that gets asked frequently. In Texas, a ...
Something our office gets a lot of questions regarding is the termination of parental rights. Many of these questions are from fathers who do not want ...
A former client of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC, had a pretty nasty situation fall upon him that required the help of a family law attorney . ...
Family Law is a field that sees its fair share of complex cases and circumstances for an attorney to engage in. After all, when you get down to it, we ...
For adoption to occur, the parental rights of either the child's mother or father must first be terminated by a court. A petition for adoption would ...
I periodically consult with a potential client who ask about terminating their own parental rights. Why would a parent want to relinquish their ...
The adoption process can be a very emotional experience for everyone involved. You may be feeling excited, anxious, or unsure about what steps to take ...
The notion of what a family is and what people can come together to create a family is changing before our eyes. What our parents would have thought ...
Although they come with less regularity than questions about child custody or d ivorce cases cases cases cases cases cases cases cases cases , people ...
A while back, a friend and fellow attorney had asked me some questions regarding terminating parental rights on a father. My friend’s potential ...
If you are the stepparent of a child you have the ability in Texas to file a case that seeks the adoption of your stepchild. Often times your spouse ...
