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Phone: (214) 363-2400

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Divorce
Invited Speaker and Assisting Trainer: "Tax and Marital Property Issues," 40 Hour Divorce Mediation Course, Texas Woman's University Continuing Education Program, December, 1998.
Child Support
If the obligor's (person paying the support) net resources exceed $6,000 per month, the court may order additional support depending on the income of the parties and the proven needs of the child, "but in no event may the obligor be required to pay child support in excess of 100% of the proven needs of the child."
Child Custody and Visitation
The parent who is not the primary residence gets visitation rights, either by agreement of the parties, or the standard possession order.
Guardianship
Principal ) designate (your attorney in fact ) to manage your property without court supervision if you are not able to act. This can avoid the need for a guardianship.
Spousal Support
No court ordered alimony after divorce in Texas, except for limited spousal maintenance support generally available only if the parties were married for at least 10 years.

Criminal Defense
Over its development the legal system has developed names for types or groups of problems to which similar rules apply. These are called "substantive areas" or "areas of substantive law." Your initial introduction to substantive areas is through the classes in law school typically included in the first year curriculum: property, contracts, torts, constitutional law, criminal law, and civil procedure. Generally in law school classes are organized by substantive area (there are, of course, exceptions). Upper level courses are typically focused on narrower substantive areas, some of which are subsets of the basic areas, and some of which are intersections of the sets of problems contained in the most general substantive areas.
Murder
A defendant cannot waive trial by jury in a prosecution for capital murder in which the State notifies the defendant and the court that it will seek the death penalty. In all other cases, the right can be waived.

Business and Corporate Law

Business Disputes
Business Transactions
Estate planning, business transactions, and estate administration work for clients outside of the Dallas metropolitan area may require the participation of local counsel, depending upon the particular services to be rendered. Where a plan implemented requires on-going attention, the client can only expect prompt, efficient service if local counsel is readily available in the community. The firm's services also frequently require the active participation of the client's certified public accountant and other financial, professional and business advisors.
Trade Secrets
Intellectual Property

Employment Contract
All legally operative agreements should be ascertained and reviewed. Such agreements might include governing instruments for the operating business entity such as corporate minutes or partnership agreements, leases, contracts as either a vendor or purchaser, notes and other financing documents, and employment agreements. If obligations are imposed which continue past the time of proposed termination of business activity, early termination provisions (if any) should be examined carefully to ascertain their precise requirements, and plans should be made and implemented to satisfy those requirements. If no unilateral early termination is permissible, plans should be made and implemented to satisfy the obligation, or a negotiated early termination investigated. It is frequently possible to negotiate an early termination of an obligation at much less cost that a simple breach of the obligation. When such a negotiation is successful, it is important to reduce the agreement to a writing signed by each party.
Employment Litigation
Tessa is licensed to practice in Texas courts. She graduated from SMU Dedman School of Law magna cum laude. She maintains a general civil practice, assisting clients with matters ranging from family law to consumer and employment issues. During law school, she focused on acquiring a wide range of civil law knowledge through her classes, including participation in the SMU Civil Legal Clinic where she gained practical real world experience. Tessa also mentored and tutored first-year students during her time at SMU. Currently, she is a member of the Dallas Bar Association and Dallas Area Young Lawyers. Prior to law school, Tessa attended The University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 2007 with a B.A. in Economics. She is a proud Life Member of the Texas Exes and can be seen at various Dallas Chapter events throughout the year.

Real Estate Transactions
Arrangements should be made for the sale or management or real property. Since real estate sales transactions are generally governed by state law, care should be taken to conform to the requirements of the jurisdiction in which the property is located. Typically, a written agreement is required before either party is bound by an agreement related to a sale of real property, including representation by a real estate agent. Once such a written agreement is entered into, however, it is binding upon the parties and may not be unilaterally changed. The contract-whether for sale, lease, or management-is the most important part of the transaction, since generally all other actions to be taken are governed by the contract and may not be renegotiated or changed except by agreement. It is therefore essential in all but the simplest transactions to have legal counsel before the contract is signed. A real estate contract must never be considered a memorandum of intent (unless specifically agreed in writing to not be binding), but should reflect the final and considered agreement of the parties.
Property Damage
"The record reflects the following undisputed facts. Ron Brown conducted a business in which he entered contracts with individuals to represent them in resolving their personal injury and/or property damage claims on a contingent fee basis. Prior to April 1986, Brown used a form contract that provided that Brown, as agent, was authorized to effect a settlement or compromise of the client's claim, subject to client approval, or to assist the client in retaining legal counsel. The contract further provided that if legal counsel was not obtained, Brown would get one-third of the amount paid to settle his client's claim, but he would receive forty percent of any amount received after obtaining counsel to file suit and he would pay the attorney's fee from his portion. Brown also reserved the right to select legal counsel."

Immigration Law

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Personal Injury
The court in Decker v. Lindsay, 824 S.W.2d 247 (Ct. App., Houston 1st Dist.—1992), held that litigants could be compelled to participate in alternative dispute resolution procedure despite objections. In Decker, although appellants raised several legal arguments in support of their position, their primary objection was a practical one: in their view, the case was a simple personal injury case, the parties had "wide-ranging disagreement" over dispositive issues, and a trial would not take substantially longer than the ordered mediation. Predictably, in view of the judicial efficiency thread undergirding the ADR movement, the court wrote...

Trusts and Estates

Estate Planning
I have been practicing as a Board Certified estate planning and probate lawyer for over 30 years. Over the past several years I became aware that many of my comfortable but middle-class clients could no longer easily afford my traditional estate planning services.
Wills
"Practical Will Drafting," South Texas College of Law Wills and Probate Institute, September, 1988 (with Nan Lilianne Hofheinz)
Trusts
Dispositive planning that integrates one or more general or limited family partnerships, revocable living trusts, irrevocable trusts, and wills
Power of Attorney
A medical power of attorney allows someone you designate to make medical treatment decisions for you if you are not able to act. A medical power of attorney is the only way to require your medical treatment provider to act in accord with the directions of someone you trust.
Probate
As might be expected, these timing questions assume increasing importance, become more complex, and affect the balance of the different elements of the definition as the time frame for the contemplated planning expands. For example, in the context of a simple single-generation non-tax plan, timing is important to the extent that the inconvenience can be avoided entirely by the client, if not the executors and beneficiaries, and the expense of transfer can be delayed until death with minimal (if any, under Texas probate law) additional cost. On the other hand, in a complex multi-generation tax plan, timing questions may be of critical importance in determining not only the desirability, but feasibility, of potential alternatives.

Bankruptcy
Chapter 7 allows the debtor to liquidate all non-exempt assets (which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction) and have those assets applied toward the obligations of the debtor. Some transfers of assets made during the period immediately prior to the bankruptcy may be set aside and brought back into the pool of assets available for the satisfaction of creditors. Upon completion of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceeding, all obligations other than certain types of claims are discharged, and may no longer be enforced. Generally, non-dischargeable obligations are certain taxes including payroll taxes and claims based on intentional torts such as a fraud.
Tax Law
I was concerned with this problem for several reasons. First, as tax law has changed over the years, fewer and fewer families have tax planning needs that formerly justified the expense involved in traditional planning. Second, less than 20% of the middle-class clients I work with have complex dispositive needs, such as mixed families, special needs children, non-traditional relationships, or the need to plan for support of aging parents. Third, the expense of representation was causing many people to seek out less than satisfactory do-it-yourself forms not specifically designed for Texas, engage less skilled representation, or worst, put off doing appropriate planning at all.

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