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Divorce: Telling the Kids

Making the decision to divorce is hard for everyone, but possibly hardest on the children. How you tell them, and when, can make a big difference in how they cope with the situation.
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by Brette McWhorter Sember (Reprinted with Permission of the Author)

Making Them Go

It happens in every family at one time or another. You have a parenting schedule in place that seems to be working pretty well with everyone’s schedules.
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Joint Managing Conservators

The following is taken from the Texas Family Code. § 153.131 (b): IT IS A REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION that the appointment of the parents of a child as joint managing conservators is in the best interest of the child.
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Texas Community Property

Texas is a community property state. That means that, for a married couple, anything acquired during the marriage belongs to both spouses equally—property, salary, cars, returns on investments, pets, furniture—everything.
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The Texas Lawyer’s Creed

I am a lawyer; I am entrusted by the People of Texas to preserve and improve our legal system. I am licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas.
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Can a Child Choose?

There is a common misconception that when a child reaches a certain age, he can decide which of his parents he will live with. This is not accurate.
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Do I Have a Common-Law Marriage?

People often appear in my office and tell me that they are “common-law married.” Further conversation usually shows that they are not, but thought they were because of misunderstandings of the law and acceptance of what others have told them.
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Am I a Daddy?

There are several different ways to establish that a particular man is the legal father of a child. A presumption of paternity means that the law will just assume that he is the father unless/until he proves (usually through DNA evidence) that he is not the biological father.
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Enforcing Child Support

Parents have a moral, ethical, and legal responsibility to provide for their children. If you and the other parent of your child are divorced or no longer in a relationship, that responsibility doesn’t go away for either of you.
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