For divorced couples who are trying to manage their children’s schedules, the holidays provide their own challenges year after year. Typically, parents operating under the Texas Family Code will get their kids on Thanksgiving and for a period of time that includes New...
In our most recent blog article, we covered the basics of adoption in Texas, including who can be adopted and who can adopt. There’s one piece to the adoption puzzle that deserves an article on its own, and that’s second-parent adoption. Second-parent adoption is the...
At the Law Office of Lisa A. Vance, we’ve recently had a number of clients come to us with questions about adoption. There’s a little bit of confusion about how adoption works in Texas, especially around second-parent adoption, which we’ll dive into in more detail...
It’s obviously been a stressful week no matter how you voted in the presidential election — to add to a stressful year dominated by concerns over the pandemic and the economy. Not having the results on election night itself breaks with tradition, and with the way...