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When clients come into the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC to discuss their family law questions and problems it is frequent that I will hear him or her use the term “fight” or “war” or “battle” to describe what is going on at home. As a parent, I ...

If you are getting a divorce and also have a child then contained within your Final Decree of Divorce will be parenting plan. This parenting plan discusses and will contain the road-map for parenting your child until he or she reaches 18 and/or ...

Do you think that your circumstances are so unique that nobody else could know what you're going through? Are the problems of your family so unique that the one size fits all solutions that you've found all over the internet wouldn't work for you and ...

I often have potential clients that come into my office wanting “custody.” Custody is a term that means different things to different people. In my experience, child custody matters can be one of the most contentious types of family law. In this blog ...

When parents walk into the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC for a consultation with one of our family law attorneys , the subject will invariably turn to how they can maximize the amount of time that they are able to spend with their child. This is ...

The word that I hear most often from clients in regard to their children, and frankly use myself when discussing the rights and duties of parents, is “ custody ”. It’s a word that is commonly used in our culture today and as a result is what most ...

If you are involved in any sort of child custody case, it is possible that a central topic, in that case, will be the performance of your child in the classroom. Their education is something at the top of your priorities list, but it is the same for ...

If you believe that a divorce or child custody case is something that is in your future it is important to understand the basics of family law in Texas. While hiring strong and steady representation for yourself, such as the Law Office of Bryan ...

Children’s issues can be some of the most hard fought and contentious parts of a Texas divorce . It is not uncommon for parents going through a divorce not to care about anything but the children. It is not uncommon for there to not to be any ...

The question of whether or the COVID -19 pandemic is one that is important to many families in southeast Texas. If you have recently gone through a family law case, or were in the middle of one when the pandemic hit, then you know how important it is ...

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 children as possible. Every other issue comes in a distant second to being able to tuck their little ones ...

Ultimately, if you are involved in a Texas family law case that involves your children nothing else matters by comparison. We can talk all day and all night about how to divide up the equity in your home when it is sold but if you are not comfortable ...

A common question asked by Fathers who come to our office for a consultation is a variation on, "I have a friend/cousin/co-worker who told me that fathers can't get a fair outcome from a judge in a Texas divorce when it comes to their children. Is ...

A very common question that clients ask when beginning the process of a divorce or a child custody suit is: “Can I receive sole custody of my child?” However, this can be a difficult question to answer because in Texas there really is no such thing ...

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 Grandparents) play larger roles in their family’s lives than in previous generations when parents ...

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, evidence to the contrary must be produced for a Court to rule otherwise. When unmarried people have a ...

Family Law is a field that sees its fair share of difficult cases and circumstances for an attorney to engage in. After all, when you get down to it we are working with people like yourself whose families are going through very tough times and ...

The Texas child custody process can be a confusing, emotional, and stressful maze to navigate. It does not help that the laws concerning child custody and divorce vary by state. This blog article is intended to help answer many of the important ...

Many parents in Texas who have a child together but are not married end up going before a family court judge to have child support orders set up. That process may have been started by the Office of the Attorney General if you applied for government ...

Fathers' Rights in Texas Contact a Trusted Houston Attorney Today At times, men are at a disadvantage during divorce and other family law matters because of traditional parenting roles – in regards to child custody , support , or alimony , fathers ...

In yesterday’s blog post from the Law Office of Bryan Fagan , we introduced the topic of issues related to Texas family law cases that are at the core of most every child custody or divorce case and why you need to be aware of them. The real problem ...

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 their marriage or before the 301 st day after the marriage ends. The most common reasons that a ...

Once you and your spouse have gotten a divorce you will likely want to move on to the “next phase” of your life as quickly as possible. No matter how well your divorce went it is an experience that you do not want to relive or think about with any ...

If you have a child over the age of five he or she is likely as knowledgeable of the digital world as you are. These kids seem to be learning from friends, family and their schools more and more about technology and how it can change their lives. ...

As we begin to enter the last stretch of the school year prior to summer vacation, you may have run into some issue in your child’s school-life that has caused you to reflect upon whether or not it would be a good idea to have him or her homeschooled ...

Families are structured differently now than in previous generations. The “nuclear” family that has been exhaustively discussed and written about since the end of World War II. We now see families where parents are not always married, single family ...

By far the most frequent question that I field from potential clients of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC has to do with custody . Concerned parents come to talk to us all the time about how their impending divorce will affect the lives of their ...

When considering a child custody or divorce case , the issues contained in these legal matters can have potentially large impacts on the lives of the mothers and fathers involved in them. Once it has been established that you as the father is the ...

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 parental rights is to sign an affidavit of relinquishment of their parental rights. Affidavit of ...

Have you ever heard the phrase, “A journey of a thousand miles beings with a single step”? The meaning behind this saying is that perspective is important when evaluating any situation that you may face in your life. If all you are doing is looking ...

When two people who have not been married have a child, the lawsuit that is filed in court to determine custody, duties, rights and visitation (among other things) for a child is called a Suit Affecting Parent Child Relationship ( SAPCR) . In most ...

If you are responsible for paying child support and are also facing the possibility of going to jail or prison for having committed a crime, you likely have a lot on your mind right now. At the forefront of your mind are hopefully questions about how ...

Joint Managing Conservatorship in Texas How Our Houston Family Law Attorneys Can Help A divorce can be an emotionally overwhelming experience, especially for children. The inevitability of the permanent separation of the family unit results in many ...

Are you under the age of thirty and going through a divorce? What about over the age of 55 and divorcing your spouse? These two groups- millennials and older adults- are more likely than other groups, I have found through experience, to not have ...