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If you’re looking to get divorced or make a modification regarding the current custody arrangements for your child, the process will start with filing a petition in court, which your family lawyer can handle for you. At the Law Office of Lisa A. Vance, when we do a...
We’re coming up on spring break, which if you’re going by the letter of the law in the Texas Family Code, is an all-or-nothing prospect for divorced parents. According to Section 153 of the Texas Family Code, which sets guidelines for the Standard Possession Order,...
We’ve talked a lot about holiday scheduling for divorcing and divorced parents over the years, and with good reason. If you follow standard orders under the Texas Family Code, you know that you’ll get your kids for half the Thanksgivings and half the Christmas Eves...
It’s one of the big challenges of parenting in the summer: Many parents need to go to work while their kids are home for the summer. And now, with more and more employers wanting their workers to come into the office post-pandemic, that’s becoming more of an issue....
While we’re not entirely out of the woods with COVID-19 and safety precautions, this year’s Halloween — whether it’s traditional trick-or-treating or trunk or treat events – could look a lot more like Halloweens of the past. And for kids — and plenty of adults — it...
You may have heard about recent efforts to change the standard possession orders in the Texas Family Code. The bill before the Texas Legislature, House Bill 803, would shift how many divorced parents in Texas have their parenting time apportioned. There’s a Fox 7...
You may have heard the advice to not leave the home that you and your spouse share if you’re getting a divorce — particularly if you’re seeking to keep the marital estate and you foresee the divorce going into litigation. While you’re not officially ceding your claim...
One of the most challenging issues that a divorced couple can face as they’re co-parenting is if one or both parties aren’t following the provisions within the divorce decree. It’s a tricky issue, because the divorce decree is a legal document that aims to cover all...
The issue of how parenting time works for parents in different states usually brings two different factors in play for Texas: One is how state laws can differ, though that’s typically not a factor if the current decree is for the state where the child primarily resides. The other is what happens when parents live more than 100 miles apart.
There are a lot of questions that divorced couples may have as they’re facing the holidays, and many of them deal with scheduling parenting time and managing their kids’ experiences. A big part of managing those experiences, of course, has to do with gift-giving. It...