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Lackey Law Firm, P.C. Family Law advocacy that puts you first. Offices in Austin, New Braunfels, Fredericksburg & Corpus Christi, TX.

With multiple locations in Texas to serve you, we provide legal representation to our clients with a personal touch. Whether you are facing criminal charges or in the midst of a family law dispute, we can help take the burden off your shoulders and provide the answers you need. This is merely a sample of the types of cases we handle:

Speeding Tickets - Driving While Intoxicated - Public Intoxication - Occupational License - Expunctions - Probation Revocations - Theft - Assault - Credit Card Abuse - Driving While License Invalid - Administrative License Revocations - Possession of Ma*****na - Possession of Controlled Substance - Possession of a Dangerous Drug - Possession of Drug Paraphernalia - Minor in Possession - Minor in Consumption - Failure to Appear - Disorderly Conduct - Non-disclosures - Agreed Divorce - Contested Divorce - Child Custody - Child Support - Child Visitation - Juvenile Cases - Work Visas - Family Visas - Residency - Citizenship - Workforce Compliance

The sworn inventory and appraisement puts your name under oath next to everything you own and owe. For a business owner ...
10/12/2026

The sworn inventory and appraisement puts your name under oath next to everything you own and owe. For a business owner or someone holding stock options and a 401(k), that list is rarely simple.

The filing deadline comes from a scheduling order or local rule, not one fixed clock, and it shifts from court to court. What matters more is what's actually on the page. A thin list, missing a business interest or an account. That changes the case.

When disclosure leaves gaps, written discovery and subpoenas can typically pull the records that fill them, and a forensic accountant may review what comes back for unexplained transfers or assets never listed under oath. 'I already gave you everything' isn't proof.

Texas generally gives you a set window after the decree to divide anything left out, but that's a steeper climb than catching it before you sign. If you want a second set of eyes on your spouse's inventory first, call us: 888-705-0307.

Your spouse says the business is worth half of what you think it's worth. That gap feels like it belongs in front of a j...
10/09/2026

Your spouse says the business is worth half of what you think it's worth. That gap feels like it belongs in front of a judge. It doesn't, not automatically.

The financial neutral you both selected typically organizes the numbers and models what different settlement structures could look like. A formal business valuation may need a separate specialist entirely, with scope set by the engagement itself. When that specialist's number lands somewhere neither of you expected, the disagreement gets worked through inside the collaborative process, not by filing suit.

What I see is people treating a valuation gap as the end of collaboration, the moment litigation becomes the only option left. That's usually when it's worth confirming with your own attorney what the process still allows, before assuming it doesn't.

The earlier you raise a valuation disagreement, the more options stay open. Call us: 888-705-0307.

Sign the participation agreement and the sentence that matters most is the one about what happens if this ends up in cou...
10/06/2026

Sign the participation agreement and the sentence that matters most is the one about what happens if this ends up in court.

People hear "no court" and treat it as a guarantee. What I'd want is you reading that withdrawal provision slowly, with your own attorney, before anything gets signed: what it covers, where the exceptions sit, what it asks of both lawyers if the case ever leaves the conference room. That's the real commitment.

Privacy deserves the same patience. Collaborative communications generally receive confidentiality protections under Texas law, subject to statutory exceptions, and that does not automatically seal documents later filed with a court. Worth understanding before your company's financials become part of the conversation.

If someone has put a participation agreement in front of you this week, call me at 888-705-0307 before you sign it.

Your seventeen-year-old texts about the tuition deposit deadline for orientation, and you realize the custody order neve...
09/24/2026

Your seventeen-year-old texts about the tuition deposit deadline for orientation, and you realize the custody order never said a word about college.

That's not an oversight most people catch. Texas child support ends when a child turns eighteen or graduates high school, whichever comes later, and nothing beyond that happens automatically. For a non-disabled child, covering tuition past that point happens only if the parties agreed in writing and that agreement made it into the order.

Same story if the plan was always "the trust will handle it." A court can order a trustee to make disbursements for a child's support, but only to the extent the trustee is required to make payments to a beneficiary who is obligated to pay child support, and never more than the beneficiary is entitled to receive or for purposes beyond what the trust instrument authorizes. The order doesn't create that authority. The trust has to.

Call us at 888-705-0307 before that deposit deadline turns into a fight over who's legally on the hook. The order either says it or it doesn't.

The voicemail from the school's front office says the fall tuition installment is late. Nobody said who pays.Texas court...
09/21/2026

The voicemail from the school's front office says the fall tuition installment is late. Nobody said who pays.

Texas courts can order either parent to cover private school tuition on top of child support, when it fits the child's best interest and that parent can pay. What usually fails is the mechanics: no due date, no named amount.

Enrolling in a school and paying for it are different rights. In a joint managing conservatorship, the right to determine a child's education may be shared or exclusively allocated to one parent, but that still doesn't settle who pays.

A clause worth having names the amount, the deadline, and the remedy if a parent falls behind. Otherwise, "I already pay child support" becomes the whole argument every semester. Call us if your decree skips those mechanics: 888-705-0307.

Two people can want the same outcome and still need different roads to get there.Mediation puts one neutral facilitator ...
09/08/2026

Two people can want the same outcome and still need different roads to get there.

Mediation puts one neutral facilitator in the room to help both spouses reach their own agreement, no one advocates for either side individually. Collaborative divorce works differently: each spouse has their own attorney present throughout, both bound by a signed agreement requiring honest financial disclosure and good-faith effort to settle.

Both processes generally keep discussions confidential under Texas law.

Neither option is automatically better. The right one depends on how you and your spouse communicate, and how much structure you need.

Not sure which fits your situation? Call us: 888-705-0307.

Your decree was written when he was six and played rec soccer on Saturday mornings. He's thirteen now, and the season in...
08/26/2026

Your decree was written when he was six and played rec soccer on Saturday mornings. He's thirteen now, and the season involves airfare.

Texas starts from the standard possession schedule, but a judge can order a different one after finding the default isn't in the child's best interest and doesn't work. School calendars and activity commitments are part of what gets weighed.

The money terms age the same way. If private school enters the picture, a court can order one parent to cover tuition on top of child support when it serves the child's best interest and that parent can pay. Enforceable later means the order names an amount, a due date, and a deadline for proof. Consent thresholds for optional activities are negotiated numbers, and the one that fit rec-league fees rarely survives a travel team.

If your order still describes a childhood your kid outgrew, call me at 888-705-0307.

Kids grow out of orders.

We’re proud to share that Lackey Law Firm, P.C. ranked #43 in the — the Top 100 Fastest Growing Longhorn Owned/Led Co...
08/18/2026

We’re proud to share that Lackey Law Firm, P.C. ranked #43 in the — the Top 100 Fastest Growing Longhorn Owned/Led Companies.

Thank you to our clients, colleagues, and community for your trust and support. Texas Exes - Hook ’em. 🤘

In litigation, splitting a 401(k) often means two accountants running two sets of numbers and totals that don’t quite ma...
08/08/2026

In litigation, splitting a 401(k) often means two accountants running two sets of numbers and totals that don’t quite match.

In a Texas collaborative case, one neutral financial professional typically works with both spouses and their attorneys instead of competing experts. They prepare a single analysis of the retirement accounts and any business interest so both sides see the same numbers.

Retirement accounts don't all divide the same way: 401(k)s (ERISA plans) need a QDRO before a plan administrator will move funds; IRAs transfer without one; federal and military retirement benefits each require their own specific order. None of this is immediate; processing typically takes several weeks to several months.

If you want a second set of eyes on how your retirement accounts or business interest get valued before that shared analysis happens, call us: 888-705-0307.

"I'm not asking my client to trust the other side. I'm asking both attorneys to sign something that makes trust unnecess...
08/07/2026

"I'm not asking my client to trust the other side. I'm asking both attorneys to sign something that makes trust unnecessary."

That's the honest pitch behind a Texas participation agreement. Every lawyer at the table agrees upfront: if settlement talks collapse and the case heads to litigation, they withdraw. Their firm withdraws too. Neither spouse keeps their original attorney into a courtroom fight.

Here's what that actually does. It removes the incentive to posture, stall, or use the collaborative sessions as free discovery before filing anyway. Walking away costs real money, new counsel, a new case number, none of the financial work already completed carries forward.

Spouses don't stay at the table because they suddenly like each other. They stay because leaving is expensive for both of them.

If someone's floated collaborative divorce and you're wondering what that withdrawal clause actually costs you, call 888-705-0307.

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Bee Cave, TX
78738

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