{"id":896,"date":"2017-12-26T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T18:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=896"},"modified":"2017-12-26T12:29:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T18:29:43","slug":"fathers-motion-new-trial-denied-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/fathers-motion-new-trial-denied-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Father&#8217;s Motion for New Trial Denied in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/texas\/eleventh-court-of-appeals\/2017\/11-15-00280-cv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">child support decision<\/a>, a father&#8217;s attorney told the trial court the couple had reached an agreement about everything but the father&#8217;s child support obligation. His attorney told the court what the terms of their agreement were. These included that the mother would decide the kids&#8217; primary residence, and the father would have standard possession with certain modifications. After deciding the amount of the child support payment, the lower court announced it approved their agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The lower court entered a divorce decree, including the terms that had been announced on the record. The decree had a place for the father to sign indicating consent, but he didn&#8217;t sign. He asked for a new trial without an attorney, and when that motion was denied, he appealed without an attorney. He presented five issues.<\/p>\n<p>He argued that the mother had instituted a malicious criminal prosecution against him that adversely affected his negotiations during divorce. He claimed there was newly discovered evidence in the form of his cell phone, which had been in the district attorney&#8217;s custody previously as proof in an ongoing criminal investigation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/fathers-motion-new-trial-denied-texas\/#more-896\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Texas child support decision, a father&#8217;s attorney told the trial court the couple had reached an agreement about everything but the father&#8217;s child support obligation. His attorney told the court what the terms of their agreement were. These included that the mother would decide the kids&#8217; primary residence, and the father would have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-custody","category-child-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Father&#039;s Motion for New Trial Denied in Texas &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; December 26, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a Texas child support decision, a father&#039;s attorney told the trial court the couple had reached an agreement about everything but the father&#039;s child &#8212; December 26, 2017\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/fathers-motion-new-trial-denied-texas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Father&#039;s Motion for New Trial Denied in Texas &#8212; 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