It’s All Coming Together and I’m Feeling Good
FROM JODI It’s another full moon. I can’t believe that last full moon I was on the other side of the world watching it rise and set over the Adriatic Sea. I am thankful the full moon comes mid-month because it gives me a reminder to review the month so far and to...
Mediating your Divorce or Custody Case
When we start talking to clients about the mediation process, many assume it will look like that infamous first scene from the 2005 comedy, Wedding Crashers – where the husband and wife are sitting across from each other at a large conference room table, each flanked...
Outbound Plane To An End of Summer Escape
FROM JODI I am writing to you from an overnight flight 38,000 feet in the sky over the Atlantic Ocean on my way to Croatia. I am pretty sure I am the only person on the plane working in the middle of the night, but I am well aware the newsletter is late this month. ...
Adultery—How Much Does it Really Matter?
Our divorcing clients come to us from both sides of the adultery fence—as the cheating spouse, and as the scorned spouse. What everyone wants to know is: How much does it really matter? As you might expect a lawyer to say: That depends! If the cheating spouse spent...
Find Your Bliss… At a Food Truck?
This time last year, I wrote about the lemons 2020 had handed us, and how we could make the best of the rest of 2020. It felt good to look ahead with fresh eyes, feeling revived about a new way to see our Pandemic-y circumstances. Things are feeling a bit precarious...
Think Twice Before You Post That! The Perils of Social Media & Divorce
For all the happy connections and pure joy (hello, Cat Lawyer!) social media has brought to the world, it has also become so ingrained in our everyday lives that we often forget how many people can see what we post, share, and “like.” It has become second nature to...
Child Support Alert – Monthly Child Tax Credit Payments as of July 2021
What is the Child Tax Credit? The Child Tax Credit is an advancement of the 2021 child credit that would otherwise be claimed on the 2021 Federal Income Tax Return for the parent entitled to claim the child for that year. Who receives the Child Tax Credit? The parent...
Seeing the Road Signs Ahead & Coming Out the Other Side
FROM JODI Two weeks ago, I had eye surgery. I have been battling serious eye complications in my left eye for two years. I couldn’t go six months without recurrent corneal erosion. You don’t want that; it hurts like hell. I remember two years ago, a client doctor...
My Divorce is Uncontested—Now What?
When you are starting to explore divorce in Texas, you will come across these terms – Contested Divorce and Uncontested Divorce. What is the difference? The short answer: there is no legal difference between a Contested Divorce and an Uncontested Divorce. The same...
Will Work For Love And Pasta
FROM JODI We just wrapped up a series of prenups and were able to celebrate our clients’ weddings, which is always a nice antedote to the undoing we are in the business of. The love side of the practice barely ever gets any attention. I think couples who plan their...
