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Before you can file for divorce in Texas, you need to make sure you meet state residency requirements. Just because someone lives in Texas does not automatically mean that they qualify for residency, and filing for divorce without meeting the residency requirements can delay the divorce process and ultimately make it cost more time and money.…

Divorce in Texas is hard enough without throwing unnecessary complications into the mix. Unfortunately, for many divorcing individuals, switching an attorney partway through the divorce process turns out to be a highly necessary complication. Although some cases of changing a divorce attorney cannot be avoided (such as if your attorney dies or cannot continue working), many…

Shock. Surprise. Anger. All of these feelings are very common in people who have been surprised with divorce papers. You may have known that your marriage was not going well, but a process server showing up at your house with a Petition for Divorce might still have been an unpleasant, unexpected event. Even if you were completely…

People all over the world use social media – so much so that someone is a bit of an outlier if they do not. And while such ubiquitous social media use can be a great resource for staying in touch with friends and family, it does have its pitfalls. Divorce is a time when social media can…

Divorce is complicated as is, but when you throw in two people who are self-employed, it becomes even more so. With a self-employed individual, it can be difficult to discern just how much he or she really makes each year. Moreover, it can be easy for a self-employed individual to hide assets, or at least downplay…

Forensic accountant sounds like a job title straight out of CSI, and not like an oftentimes-necessary tool in a Dallas divorce. However, many Dallas divorce cases require the expertise of a forensic accountant, especially when there are a significant number of assets to be split during the divorce. At the Clark Law Group, we routinely utilize…

One thing that many people do not understand when they initiate a divorce is that the process is tedious and long. Even if the couple remains amicable and agreeable throughout the entire divorce, the process can still take up to six months to complete. A contested divorce, on the other hand, can last for more than a year.…

Sometimes a couple will file for divorce, only to realize halfway through the process that they do not, in fact, want to get a divorce. Fortunately, simply filing for divorce does not make the separation permanent. So long as both parties agree to a reconciliation before the divorce is final, it can be dismissed without…

Laws, whether they are relevant today or not, served a purpose at one point in time in our country. For instance, at one point it was perfectly necessary for Colorado to establish a law that expressly prohibited anyone under the age of 16 from playing pinball after 11 pm. When Texas created a law barring…

Texas is one of the few states that still recognizes fault-based divorces, and may grant a divorce in one spouse’s favor if sufficient grounds for fault are established. Under Section 6.005 of the Texas Family Code, abandonment is one of the seven grounds for a fault-based divorce in Texas. If a spouse is found guilty of abandonment,…