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Beal Law Firm has a Team of attorneys, five offices – Southlake, Fort Worth, and Dallas, Frisco, and San Antonio – and the experience needed to handle all Texas Divorce, Custody, and Family Law matters.
Senior Attorney, Eric Beal, is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, is AV® Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and has over 28 years of divorce and family law experience. Additionally, Mr. Beal is a former U.S. Marine Corps Legal Officer. While in the Marines, Beal graduated with honors from the Field Artillery Officer’s Basic Course and the Military Justice Legal Officer’s Course, where he finished first in his class with an all-time record score. Following the Marines, Beal attended Baylor Law School, where he received over two dozen honors and awards, and graduated as the Highest Ranking Student. Since that time, Beal has become a published family law author and speaker and participates in many times over the required number of Continuing Legal Education courses.
Senior Managing Attorney, Constance Mims, is Board Certified in Family Law, is a multiple recipient of the Martindale-Hubbell Client Distinction award, and has over 15 years of divorce and family law experience, including 3 as a family law paralegal.
We invite you to review our site, look at the resumes of the divorce lawyers and family law lawyers working at BLF, and determine whether we are the type of firm you are looking for. We can help with all family law matters, including divorce, uncontested divorce, child custody, child support, grandparent rights, family violence, juvenile law, division of property, QDROs, prenuptial agreements, post-marital agreements, military divorce, military family law, and more.
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Thirty Years: Beal Law Firm’s First 30 Years
Thirty years is a long time. Do you know where you were 30 years ago? I know where I was.
I was sitting in a tiny office about a third of the size of the one that I had had less than two years earlier when I first got out of law school. I had read a book that explained the best strategy for starting your own law firm and had decided that the time was right to start mine...
Beal Law Firm, PLLC - DFW Division - Joe T Garcia’s - April 15, 2022...
Child Support: The Economy is Changing. Does your Child Support need to?
You’ve seen the news. Inflation is up. School and pre-school schedules are uncertain. Jobs are available, but some don’t pay a “living wage.” And there is a lot of flux in the Texas Economy right now.
All of those changes can have an effect on your ability to pay the bills and provide for yourself and your children. Additionally, if you are paying child support, they can have an effect on your ability to pay your support and to provide for children that are a product of a new relationship.
The current economic changes may also cause someone to need Child Support that simply didn’t before. You may need money now that you could get by without before.
Texas Child Support is established under the Texas Family Code. The Court has the power to order that support be paid, how much is to be paid, and how it is to be paid.
The Court also has the power to enforce prior orders and to modify or change orders that were previously put in place. These changes can be made on a Temporary or Permanent basis.
Texas Code Chapter 156 provides...
https://www.dfwdivorce.com/post/child-support-the-economy-is-changing-does-your-child-support-need-to
Timing Your Case – When Should I file?
The question often comes up, “When should I file my case so that my kids can start school in their new school?” Or, “If I start my Divorce now, will it be done by the end of this school year?”
The question is really, “How do I know when to file my case in order for it to be over by the time I want it over with?”
In a sense, that’s a really easy question, but the answer is not very satisfying.
You don’t. And more importantly, you can’t.
I’ve been a lawyer now for over 31 years. I’ve practiced in virtually every type of court in the State of Texas. Additionally, I’ve read more cases than I could possibly go back and figure out and have been around at least hundreds, if not thousands, more.
Other than certain types of cases with strict deadlines – like Mental Health Commitment hearings – there is no way of knowing how long a case will take from initiation to conclusion.
I have had a contested custody case take as little as a month to get from filing to conclusion – including the trial. I have had other family law cases that last years. How many years? I’m not sure of the longest I’ve been a part of, but I can recall for sure helping get one to a conclusion that had been on file for over four years before I was hired as the next attorney – the client had already had at least two others.
So, what things do we know for certain with respect to timing a case? Here are a few things that we think we know...
https://www.dfwdivorce.com/post/timing-your-case-when-should-i-file
Paralegal, Karie Decker, Beal Law Firm, PLLC