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RECENT TEXAS CASES INVOLVING THE RECOGNITION OF FOREIGN DIVORCE

There has been a lot of talk in this country lately about recognition of same-sex marriage and same-sex divorce, but what about recognition of foreign divorces?  In the melting pot that is the United States of America, divorce from foreign countries and their applicability to Texas family law cases are becoming increasingly…

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Congratulations on the birth of your baby boy! Now what?

For the parents of a brand new baby boy, oftentimes the first medical decision to be made for the child is whether he should be circumcised.  This medical procedure is usually performed in the hospital shortly after the birth of the child and outside the presence of the parents, or in the Jewish faith, eight days after…

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THE STATE OF THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE IS STRONG

Since no-fault divorce statutes were first implemented in the United States at the end of the 1960s Zeitgeist (with California being the first state to allow a “no-fault” divorce in 1969), many have cried that there is an epidemic of skyrocketing divorce rates that is only getting higher with the…

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First Same-Sex Marriage License in Texas Leaves More Questions than Answers

A federal district judge in Texas rules that Texas’s Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.  That ruling was stayed pending appeal—a common procedure in this type of case (when a law has been ruled unconstitutional, it is common to keep the…

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How a Texas Court Might Have Handled the Hamm Divorce

This past November, an Oklahoma County Judge ordered billionaire oilman Harold Hamm to pay approximately $1 billion to Sue Ann Hamm, his wife of 26 years.  Harold Hamm, who is the founder and CEO of Continental Resources, was specifically ordered to pay Sue Ann Hamm a total of $995.5 million,…

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