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 ...
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 ...
A while back, a friend and fellow attorney had asked me some questions regarding terminating parental rights on a father. My friend’s potential ...
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 ...
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 ...
I periodically consult with a potential client who ask about terminating their own parental rights. Why would a parent want to relinquish their ...
What comes to mind when you hear the words "emotional" and "abuse"? What comes to mind? I'm willing to bet that if you were being sincere, the image ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blended families are more and more becoming the norm in Texas and around our country. With that, the dynamics of what a family looks like and who ...
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 ...
Understanding the basic steps of a CPS investigation should be one of the first things you investigate as you and your family become involved with the ...
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 . ...
Deciding to adopt a child is probably the most consequential series of choices that you will ever make in your life. Bringing a child into your family ...
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 ...
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 ...
If you are a Texas citizen and are interested in pursuing an adoption of a child who lives outside of the United States, I would like to share with ...
A few weeks ago, I was doing consultations with prospective clients of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC , on a Saturday morning when a husband and ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Although they come with less regularity than questions about child custody or d ivorce cases cases cases cases cases cases cases cases cases , people ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
From the date that your CPS case is filed, there is a one year limit on how long your case may last. This may seem like a long time to wait for a ...
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 ...
