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 ...
The most common way for you to acknowledge paternity of a child in Texas is to fill out an Acknowledgment of Paternity . This form can be obtained ...
As medical science has advanced, parents have to enter into unique arrangements with third parties to conceive children. For decades, parents have ...
If there is a question as to who the biological father of a child is then it is likely that there will be a lawsuit filed in order to determine ...
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 . ...
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 ...
Suppose that you are a child's parent whose CPS was recently removed from your home. What's more, now CPS has gone to court and asked a judge for an ...
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 ...
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 ...
As a Houston, Texas divorce and family law attorney I have had the opportunity to help clients through divorce and family law cases. In order to do ...
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 ...
When two married people have a child, it is presumed that the father of the child is the mother’s husband. For that presumption to be rebutted, ...
Once the father of your child signs an Acknowledgment of Paternity , he will become the legal father of your child as soon as you also sign an ...
Today, I would like to continue discussing an important topic related to family law : adoption . If you are interested in going back to yesterday's ...
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 ...
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 ...
Families come in all shapes and sizes. If you are in a relationship and are interested in getting married, you need to ask yourself some questions ...
As it sometimes happens in Texas Child Protective Services cases, the child involved will not have a legally established father. Obviously, the child ...
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 ...
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 ...
Most fathers ask what rights they have to their children if they are not listed on the birth certificate. If a couple is married, it is always ...
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 ...
A Texas child support case always involves the intersection of child support and child custody . To understand much of anything regarding child ...
Becoming a father is one of life's greatest treasures. Being able to take part in the raising of a child into an adult changes the person for the ...
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 ...
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 Texas Attorney General & Child Support When it comes to issues related to child custody and paternity, many people are unaware of the role that ...
There are more than just the primary concerns about homework, the flu, friends, and eating enough vegetables in many families. Unfortunately, I have ...
Other than the fear of being investigated yourself by CPS for having committed a neglectful or abusive act against your child, one of your biggest ...
