I’m sorry, I hope I have not left anyone hanging as far as visitation goes. With the holidays and a ridiculous work schedule I have not has time to post. I promise I will try to do better in the future.
Thanks for hanging in there.
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I’m still alive…
Wednesday, January 11th, 2012september and the standard visitation schedule
Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
Wow, I am really late posting this. Sorry. Hopefully you figured out that the standard visitation for September weekend possessions are the 2nd, 16th and 30th of September. You will also get every Thursday this month (or Wednesday for an older order).
Also, September had labor day weekend. That would have extended the standard weekend possession until Monday at 6:00 p.m. or return to school Tuesday depending on your order. This month also has a 5th weekend which is the 5th Friday of the month, the 30th. That means you will get that weekend and then the very next Friday (the 7th) because it will be the 1st Friday of the month. Comprende?
As I always say, I am only addressing the standard possession order in Texas. If you have a modified order then you will need to review and compare your terms with what I am describing and determine the difference.
Talk to you soon…
oh goodie, look at me!
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011I am the featured “blogger” on the Texas Bar Blog. Two seconds of fame…
But wait! That is not all. I did get a little press in the Texas Bar Journal last year. See me in all my glory under the “Technology” section at the bottom of the page.
My mom must be so proud…
reader assistance needed…
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
I don’t know how many of you out there have blogs. My guess is not many. Well let me tell you, it is tough to maintain a blog and come up with new content! This post is a call to all readers…if you have any requests for things you would like to know about divorce or family law in Texas, please let me know either directly or through comments to this or any other post. Additionally, if you have any suggestions on my site in general, please feel free to offer them.
The idea behind this is to generate general topics for discussion. Please don’t send an email with specific facts of your case and ask me to solve YOUR specific problem. Those types of things would be handled in another forum between an attorney and their client.
Thanks for reading, and thanks in advance for any ideas for topics you may have.
goodbye Gary Coleman
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I have had a video link in my sidebar for Gary Coleman’s divorce for some time. Unfortunately he has recently passed away apparently under some shady circumstances. RIP Gary Coleman.
totally off the subject of family law…
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
I recently watched a movie entitled Food, Inc. In general the movie is about major corporations and the food we buy and eat. It is very educational and a bit horrifying. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Basically it boils down to the fact that all our meat type foods (chicken, beef, pork, etc…) come from a few major companies. The packages may be different, and the names on the packages may be different, but they all come from the same place. What this has resulted in is an assembly line type approach to processing meat. Not only is it inhumane, it is extremely unhealthy.
The movie looks at the assembly lines in the meat and chicken business and discusses and shows all the collateral damage that this style of meat processing can and is causing.
For instance, one patty of hamburger meat will contain meat from multiple cows, all mixed together. Included in the mixing process can be all types of diseases, including salmonella which the cows derive from standing in knee deep feces all day. This salmonella is then transported through the creeks and rivers and ends up contaminating things like spinach and other vegetables.
It is a great movie and one that everyone should watch. They have a website that you can visit to get invloved and a petition that can be signed regarding child nutrition.
How do you combat this? Buy grass fed beef and vegetables from local farmers at farmers markets such as the Dallas Farmers Market. In the Dallas area there are numerous farms selling grass fed beef and free range chickens. Search “grass fed beef dallas tx” for local farms. You can use the same search for your city.
It is a matter of our health and our children’s health. Do what you can.
how to use an RSS feed
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Here is a great article on how to use an RSS feed to follow this blog and setting it up in Google Reader (like and email program to organize the sites you are following).
oops i forgot to mention….
Monday, October 27th, 2008You can also purchase very inexpensive legal advise, for Texas, a la carte for $35.00 per issue. Basically you buy an email to me for $35 where you can list all your questions. This is designed for situations in which you want to represent yourself, but have a simple legal question or two that you do not know the answer to. For $35.00 you can get that answer or answers.
Now that is some cheap legal advise!
it lives!
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Okay it is official, my form website is up and running. You can visit it through my “uncontested divorce” page on www.chrislawyer.com or you can visit it directly at this address.
In addition to providing forms for uncontested (or agreed) divorces in Texas, I will soon have uncontested or agreed petitions to modify Texas orders or decrees already entered by the court.
For instance if you are already divorced but your child says they want to come live with you, and the other parent agrees, you can use my forms to file and finalize a modification of the custody provisions in your decree. Of course this is for Texas only.
Another example, and important in this economy, is when a divorce decree or order sets an amount of child support that is no longer correct because of changes in your job or you rate of pay, you can use my forms in a very inexpensive fashion to get your child support modified (assuming that your ex is in agreement).
If someone is interested in the forms, they can use them and the “pay for legal advise” section and get help with their specific legal situation. In this scenario you could file your own lawsuit using my forms and then get the help you need in representing yourself. Pretty cool.
If none of the above work, you can always retain me if you need to divorce or modify an order in the Dallas, Plano, Denton areas. Sorry, can’t jet down to San Antonio to help you other folks.
Enough self promotion….thanks for reading this mish mash!
i’m still alive
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008I still live and breathe. Things have been very hectic around the office with new clients (good), software malfunctions (bad) and a new project I have been working on in a further attempt to help people with their family law issues.
The new project is a form website for do it yourself divorces in Texas, do it yourself wills, etc… This form service will be fully integrated with my existing website as you can see on my here. My service will differ from the free divorce forms and the pay for divorce forms websites in that I will provide legal review of the forms to make sure they are correct. With the other divorce form websites you simply buy the form and you are on your own. On mine, you get my assistance with the forms and can even just buy a la carte legal advise. In the future I will try to integrate a do it yourself modification section for Texas so that you can do your own modifications.
I am very excited about this new service and will announce more about it in the future.
As for my blog posts, I am running a little dry on ideas, so if anyone has some topics that they think are interesting, please let me know and I will make a list.
Type to you soon.
