Although the court may allow you to use community property to pay some legal fees while the divorce is pending, for the most part, judges tend to expect each party to pay for their own attorney.
It’s true that Texas is a community property state, but that doesn’t mean that everything will be split 50/50. The Texas Family Code gives the courts the ability to make a “just and right” division of the community property. (See Chapter 7 of...
Generally speaking, both parties involved are each responsible for 50% of the cost. In addition to private mediation, there are also some government sponsored programs which tend to be less expensive, and can be paid for by either or both parties.
Texas courts assume that most cases involving children will have joint managing conservatorship. In a JMC, both of the parties will have an equal say in raising the kids (more or less.) However, in most of these cases, one of the parents will determine where the child...
In order to file for divorce in Texas, at least one spouse has to have been living in Texas for the past 6 months. The spouse will also need to have been living in the county you’ll be filing for divorce in for the past 90 days. So for example, if the husband is...
