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Can Your Children Choose To Live WIth You

Can Your Children Decide To Live With You?

Perhaps the toughest part of a contentious divorce is how it impacts kids, particularly teenagers. The proceedings can be lengthy and divisive, and may expose younger family mem…

Preparing For The End Of Your Marriage

Preparing for the End of your Marriage!

Are you contemplating a divorce, or do you think your spouse is? Here at The Essex Law Firm, I tell my clients, even if you are in the happiest of marriages, all marriages, sadl…

Avoid The Minefield and Save The Village

Avoid the Minefields and Save the Village

If you walk into a bookstore and find the section about repairing marital relationships, most of the titles will be directed at the female partner. Why is this? After decades of…

Don't Fight Over Fluffy Pets And Divorce

Don’t Fight over Fluffy – Pets and Divorce

Divorce is tough on everyone. Disruption to routines and lifestyles is inevitable even in the best of circumstances, and this is not limited to adults and kids. Even the family …

Tracking Your Spouse A Very Slippery Legal Slope

Tracking your Spouse – A Very Slippery Legal Slope

Technology can be a wonderful thing, until it’s not. And in the legal profession, I believe most practitioners would agree that technological advances occur far faster than the …

The Truth About Mediation And Divorce

The Truth About Mediation in Divorce Cases

Mediation is one of those topics that everyone has heard of, but most do not fully understand. In many industries, agreeing in advance to resolve disputes via mediation is manda…

Vaccinating Children

Vaccinating the Kids

Divorce and Vaccinations – How to Agree if There’s No Agreement Believe it or not, August is here and kids are heading back to school. Unfortunately, so is COVID. Everywhere we …

Does A Family Have To Sell Their Home In A Divorce

Does the family home have to be sold during a divorce?

The short answer is, no it does not have to be sold and is usually not sold. The discussion about the family home can be an emotional one for a divorcing couple. Th…

Why Am I Paying Child Support With A Joint Custody Arrangement

Why am I Paying Child Support in a Joint Custody Arrangement?

Why am I paying child support in a joint custody arrangement? This question comes up frequently in divorce negotiations, and it’s a good one. In Texas, the term “jo…

When Your Ex Comes Back From The Dead

When Your Ex Comes Back from the Dead

Considering all the scary things that could happen during and after a divorce, most of us would be most happy if the ex simply went poof and disappeared. And why not? Aside fro…

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