Browse articles, case digests, columns, and spotlights from the Texas Family Law Section Report.
¶26-4-125. In Partition Suit After the End of Relationship Between "Unmarried Conjugal Cohabitants," Boyfriend was Entitled to Offset of Equity Buyout from Girlfriend to Account for Direct Payments for the Preservation and Maintenance of Their Shared Home.
¶26-4-126. Wife's Appeal of the Divorce Decree Dismissed Because She Accepted the Benefits of the Decree By Selling Real Property Awarded to Her in the Decree and Which Represented the Entirety of the Parties' Community Estate.
¶26-4-127. In Absence of a Petition to Modify, Court Lacked Authority to Add Additional Restriction in Underlying Order as Part of Enforcement Proceeding.
¶26-4-128. Texas Court Did Not Abuse Its Discretion in Extending Comity to Mexico Courts to Determine Validity of Mexico Divorce Decree; However, the Appellate Court Remanded for a Determination of Whether an Abatement Instead of Dismissal of the Texas Suit, Pending Resolution of the Mexico Proceedings, Would be More Proper.
The Texas family law community recently lost one of its own far too soon. Daniel Paul Webb of Fort Worth passed away on January 28, 2026, leaving behind a lasting imprint on the family law bar of this state.
For more than three decades, Carole Cross has dedicated her legal career to passionate representation of service members and military families.
A roundup of notable family law decisions from around the nation this quarter, covering marital agreements, the Hague Convention, child custody, child support, property division, and enforcement.
Preparing for a deposition of a court-appointed evaluator in your child custody case, you open the evaluator’s report for questions related to how the evaluator characterized your client. How do you know if these diagnoses are legit?
In both President Trump’s first and current administrations, the federal government initiated travel bans for nationals of certain countries. This article addresses the current travel ban and the pause of USCIS adjudications for nationals of certain countries.
A February 2026 federal ruling ordering production of a criminal defendant’s AI chat materials is a warning for Texas family lawyers: a client’s “private” chat with an AI platform may be the opposite of private in discovery.
Texas divorce courts routinely divide assets ranging from the marital residence to personal property — but practitioners should also be looking for contingent assets that have not yet fully matured or vested, and factoring them into the division of assets.
As the first woman to serve as a full-time justice on the Supreme Court of Texas, Justice Ruby Sondock changed what generations of Texas lawyers and judges could imagine for themselves. She did more than reach milestones first. She transformed them into steppingstones for the women lawyers and judges who followed. Born and raised in...