It’s called superfecundation– while fertile, if a woman sleeps with two men during the same fertility cycle, she can conceive twins from two separate fathers. This is not very common, but it is not impossible. 1 out of every 13,000 cases involving twins involves superfecundation. In New Jersey, a woman…
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…
Are you currently serving in the military or know someone who is? Texas is home to one of the largest populations of active military members in the nation. As such, the Texas Family Code has specific statutes that address the unique issues facing our military members in the family law…
Should a rapist have the right to custody of a child who was conceived by rape? The United States Senate recently answered—unanimously—“No!” to that very question when it passed an amendment to human trafficking legislation that would give states a strong incentive to ban rapists from having parental rights regarding a…
Advances in technology are constantly changing how people work, play, and–unfortunately–cheat on their spouses. People often ask us what tools are available to catch a cheating spouse or what tools a spouse might be using to conceal their own infidelity. D CEO Magazine asked us how to catch a cheating spouse–or…
Recently, a story out of New York has been circulating across the internet involving a Manhattan Supreme Court Judge that permitted a woman to serve her husband with divorce papers through a private Facebook message. According to the story, the husband was a somewhat transient individual who lacked a fixed…
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…
Many clients come to our law firm extremely worried that the second they get married, their spouse is automatically entitled to half of their wealth- regardless of the duration of the marriage or when they acquired their wealth. As reported in the news, Keyshawn Johnson is getting divorced from his…
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…
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…