DALLAS – Attorney Richard R. Orsinger, named partner in the Family Law boutique Orsinger, Nelson, Downing & Anderson, L.L.P., recently received the 2013 Franklin Jones Best Continuing Legal Education Article…

Community property is all the property you and your spouse acquired during the marriage. Because Texas is a community property state, the property you acquired during your marriage – with…

Thanks to the Brothers Grimm (and Disney’s family friendly repurposing of their tales), the words “wicked” and “stepmother” are inextricably linked. But while some step-relationships may prove challenging, most blended…

Anyone can be required to appear before a court, but not everyone can be compelled to testify. Minors so young that they cannot understand the oath or answer questions may…

In Texas, partitioning income transforms income from community property to separate property owned by the husband or wife. Without a partition, income is presumed to belong jointly to both…

Children cease to be minors upon their 18th birthday. Unless a judge issues a court order to the contrary, children younger than 18 are not allowed to make visitation decisions.

Collaborative Law are both forms of alternative dispute resolution, but Collaborative Law is a process whereas arbitration is a single event. In some cases, arbitration…

Mini-trials, which aren’t actually trials at all, are often used during the mediation process. They take place before the mediation begins, with the mediator sitting as…

In most cases, the court will require that both parents keep each other informed of the children’s whereabouts. By design, that requires each spouse to know the other’s home…

As in most areas of Family Law, the decision of where a divorcing couple’s children will attend school is decided based on the facts…