Who Cares for Your Kids If You Deploy, and What the Plan Has to Say A Family Care Plan is a Department of Defense requirement that tells your command exactly who takes care of your … Read more
No, Ten Years of Marriage Does Not Decide Whether You Get Military Retirement The 10/10 rule is one of the most misunderstood pieces of military divorce law, and the misunderstanding always runs the same direction. … Read more
One Year to File a Deemed Election, and Missing It Can Be Extremely Hard to Fix If your divorce order requires your former spouse to provide Survivor Benefit Plan coverage, you generally have one year … Read more
The 20/20/20 and 20/20/15 Rules That Decide What a Former Military Spouse Keeps Whether you keep TRICARE, commissary access, and your base ID after a military divorce comes down to three numbers: how long you … Read more
What Your Texas Custody Order Should Say Before the First Unaccompanied Flight American, Delta, and Southwest all allow some children to travel alone starting at age 5, subject to each airline’s unaccompanied minor rules. That … Read more
What Counts as a Material and Substantial Change for Child Support in Texas? A material and substantial change for child support purposes is any real, ongoing shift in either parent’s finances or the child’s circumstances … Read more
What Counts as a Material and Substantial Change for a Father Seeking More Custody Time in Texas? A material and substantial change is any significant shift in the child’s circumstances, either parent’s circumstances, or either … Read more
How Do You Prove Minimum Reasonable Needs for Spousal Maintenance in Texas? You prove minimum reasonable needs with a detailed, honest account of what it actually costs to keep a roof over your head, the … Read more
How Long Does Spousal Maintenance Last in Texas? How long spousal maintenance lasts in Texas depends on how long the marriage lasted, not on how much either spouse wants it to run. Texas caps maintenance … Read more
What Does an Uncontested Divorce Actually Cost in Bexar County? Filing is the cheap part. The county’s fee is a few hundred dollars, and it is the only number in this process you can look … Read more