Archive for October 28, 2015

You should know that, if your case arises under the Texas Family Code, the odds are high that you will be ordered to go to mediation before you can proceed to trial. When this happens, you should have a basic idea of what mediation is, and what it is not.  Mediation has the potential to be a great benefit to you and really has little, to no, downside.

Mediation is an informal process, facilitated by a mediator, designed to bring about a settlement of your case. Mediators are typically, but not

You have heard it said many times that, in a divorce, the Judge is just going to split things down the middle, so we might as well do that and move on. Well, hold on a second. You should know that the Texas Family Code allows the Court to award you what is called a “disproportionate share” of your community estate, under certain circumstances. That means you could get more than half of your marital property if you can show the Judge things like:

a. your spouse is at fault in