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What About the House?
Is Your Home the Most Valuable Asset? It may be if there fails to be large retirement accounts or liquid financial accounts. Indeed, one…
The Child’s Best Interest and Modification
Divorce Decrees, Children, and Best Interests! Certainly, the child's best interests and modification of an existing order can restore balance to a broken parenting…
Divorce – Whose Fault is it Anyway?
No Fault Finding = Insupportability and Divorce Many times when couples seek to end their marriage, they do not wish to "throw stones" at…
Why Have a Premarital Agreement?
Many couples may have valid concerns when considering whether to marry. Often this occurs when couples consider a second marriage. But a Premarital Agreement…
Alimony – Spousal Support – Post Divorce Maintenance
Texas was the LAST state to adopt a post-divorce spousal maintenance (sometimes referred to as alimony) statute. Many believe it is because Texas is…
Avoiding a Financial Train Wreck
Divorce not only may result in emotional devastation, but financial disaster may occur also. So often, parties divide retirement accounts to equalize the divisions…
How Does Mental Illness Impact Your Parental Rights?
A parent’s mental illness is taken into consideration when it comes to child custody, and a judge looks at various factors to determine if…
Navigating Divorce as a Business Owner
Attorney Michelle Schmidt understands small businesses having owned her own first small business at the age of 17. She also spent 10 years assisting…
4 Things to Know Before Going to Your Divorce Mediation
One of the biggest steps in some divorce processes is the mediation. Through mediation, the parties and their attorneys meet and discuss the division…
Contested, Uncontested, Flat-fee, Hourly … WHAT?
Why am I being charged hourly instead of having a "flat fee"? Many lawyers and law firms that work in the area of family…
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