The Ashmore Law Firm, P.C. Blog

According to The Wall Street Journal, banker Gerald J. Ford and four of his adult children are in court over his stake in Hilltop Holdings, worth roughly $600 million. His son, who is Hilltop's cha...

By Gary Ashmore, Managing Attorney, Family Law — The Ashmore Law Firm, P.C.

This week The Wall Street Journal reported on a dispute that will sound familiar to any Dallas fam...

Most adoptees never think about it. The people who raised you are your parents, and a biological parent you've never met is, for all practical purposes, a stranger. So when that person dies, inheritance is not on your radar.

But in Texas, it should be.

Take a woman we'll call Rebecca (a fictional composite). She was placed for ado...

In Texas, usually yes. Unless your custody order specifically restricts it, each parent decides what happens during their own parenting time. A court will not modify an order over a single incident or a difference in parenting style.

Which co-parenting complaints actually m...

In Texas, fall means cooler weather, family get-togethers, great food, and, of course, football.

Whether your family wears maroon, burnt orange, Cowboys blue, or somehow manages to cheer f...