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Our office has had the privilege of representing several firefighters through family law matters include divorce and child custody cases . Certain professions such being a firefighter have unique custody situations. The readers of our blog will know ...

Certain professions such being an airline employee have unique custody situations. As discussed in a previous blog regarding firefighters the readers of our blog will know that in Texas there is a presumption that the Standard Possession Schedule is ...

If you are about to undertake a Divorce or Child Custody and have a child then you should be familiar with a Standard Possession Order and what it entails. Our State Legislature created the Standard Possession Order, or SPO, in order to help family ...

Being a parent and having to go through a family law case is one of the more stressful experiences that you can go through. After having represented so many parents over the years in cases just like these the attorneys with the Law Office of Bryan ...

If you are a parent and are going through either a divorce or child custody case, chance are that you have been thinking about what you would like your child’s life to look like after your case. At the end of the day you are doing this case primarily ...

Sole Managing Conservatorship In yesterday’s blog post we discussed that the typical arrangement for parents coming out of a divorce is for each to be named as a Joint Managing Conservator of their child. This, too, is the set up that you can expect ...

In learning more about family law concepts and terminology you may have come across the terms: visitation, possession , and access. Interestingly enough possession and access are what visitation is actually made up of. If you are a parent with ...

How many of you are contract employees? You work a job for a period of time and then move on to the next one when your current contract runs out? Sometimes you go weeks or even months in between working. Other folks work inconsistent hours due to ...

Parents who are preparing to live underneath a possession schedule as a result of their divorce or child custody case will always have questions about how to either structure their schedules or how to best ensure their and their child’s lives are ...

Time and Money. Those are two of the things that we as human beings are most concerned about, especially when considered in the context of our families. That goes double when you are going through a divorce . Ultimately you are spending some time and ...

No two families are created equal. As a family law office, the attorneys with the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC understand this to be true in more ways than one. One of those ways is how families are able to rally around their children and provide ...

Caring for the health and safety of Texas children is the responsibility that the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is charged with upholding. The populations that the agency serves are among the least represented and most at need in ...

Under the Texas Family Code, Child Protective Services (CPS) is provided a great deal of authority to investigate allegations of abuse or neglect against your child and ultimately to remove him or her from your home if it is believed that such an ...

One of the questions many parents have during a divorce or after they separate from the other parent involves what kind of visitation they or the other parent will have. Most of the time in divorce and paternity cases the Court will order that ...

The Standard Possession Order (SPO) is the, well, standard for possession for parents in Texas family law cases who are not designated as the person to determine the primary residence for their child. If you have been awarded visitation rights in a ...

One of the things that comes up in many of my consults is a parent who tells me that they want to get 50/50 time with their children. I have briefly touch on this topic in a previous blog article, “ 10 Myths About Divorce in Texas, Part One .” In ...

Spring Break is a great time of the year. It is that perfect mid-point between the short, cold days of Winter and the extended days of fun-in-the-sun that we are fortunate enough to experience in the Summer. If you have school aged children then you ...

Possession and Access Orders What Is a Position and Access Order? In the state of Texas, a Position and Access Order (PAO) is an order that outlines parents’ child visitation rights. This applies to the non-custodial parent and instructs them ...

One of the goals that many potential clients of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC have is to be able to see their child as much as the other parent once their family law case is done and over with. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about a child ...

While a Standard Possession Order that features alternating weekends during the school year and alternating holidays for the remaining months may work for many families, you may not have envisioned that type of schedule for your family. If you and ...

If you’re a parent who just got a divorce finalized at the end of this school year you’ve probably been acclimating yourself to a different schedule than you’ve become accustomed to as far as summertime with your child. Whether you are the parent ...

I think the most common goal that I will hear from parents (mainly fathers) is that they want 50/50 or split custody with their spouse after the divorce is over. From my experience, fathers have had the false narrative that the best they can do is ...

Who gets the rights to the child? In a typical Texas Divorce , the parents of a child will either agree to divide up the rights and duties each party has or a Court will order a division for them. The details of each particular divorce ...

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Parental Visitation in Texas Our Houston Family Lawyer is Ready to Take Action In Texas, parental visitation is often referred to as “access to or possession of the child.” When parents cannot come to an agreed upon visitation plan, the court will ...