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MediationJudges Walter Armatys & John Millard are former Family Court Judges specializing in Mediation & Arbitration. to 9:30 p.m. or Saturday sessions from 9:30 a.m.

Walter Armatys and John Millard are former Fort Bend County Family Court Judges. With decades of family law litigation and judicial experience, we have the knowledge and wisdom to successfully resolve complex and challenging family law disputes. We offer half and full-day mediation in-person or via Zoom, as well as flexible after-hours sessions for those with busy schedules, including three-hour evening sessions from 6:30 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Check our availability on our calendar and book your session now!

New on View From The Bench: "A Dollar Isn't a Dollar: Valuing Tax-Affected Accounts in Mediation."$100,000 in a checking...
10/12/2026

New on View From The Bench: "A Dollar Isn't a Dollar: Valuing Tax-Affected Accounts in Mediation."

$100,000 in a checking account and $100,000 in a retirement plan can look identical on a spreadsheet. They don't feel identical when someone tries to pay the rent. Taxes matter, timing matters, and so does whether you can access the money at all.

If your case has a retirement division with more moving parts than the spreadsheet admits, we'd be glad to help at the mediation table.

A $100,000 retirement account and $100,000 in cash can balance perfectly on the spreadsheet and still be two very different deals. Here's what to ask about taxes, the QDRO exception, and timing before everyone closes their laptops.

Remember when getting a mediated settlement agreement signed meant passing paper around the room, hoping the printer wor...
07/02/2026

Remember when getting a mediated settlement agreement signed meant passing paper around the room, hoping the printer worked, and praying nobody left before the ink was dry?

Those days are mostly gone.

In my latest blog post, I look at how “Sign Here” became “Click Here” in Texas mediated settlement agreements - why electronic signatures work, what Texas law says about them, and why same-day signature completion is one of the best ways to keep a hard-earned settlement from unraveling overnight.

Because once cold feet, a new significant other, or somebody’s cousin who “knows a guy” gets involved, things can get interesting fast.

Read the full post here:

How “Sign Here” Became “Click Here”: Electronic Signatures and Texas Mediated Settlement Agreements A few years ago, getting parties and counsel to sign a mediated settlement agreement meant a pen, a printer, and often a fax machine standing by, humming ominously, in case someone left before...

There’s an old courthouse truth: The pie always gets smaller.I’ve seen it happen more times than I can count - parties s...
04/26/2026

There’s an old courthouse truth:

The pie always gets smaller.

I’ve seen it happen more times than I can count - parties spending months fighting over who deserves the bigger slice…

…only to realize at the end there’s barely any pie left.

Legal fees. Experts. Two households. Delay.
Everyone’s working hard, but the pie keeps shrinking.

And by the time the fight is over?

Everyone agrees on one thing:

There used to be more pie.

I wrote a short piece using a simple “shrinking pie” analogy to explain what really happens in many contested divorces, and why timing matters more than most people think.

If you practice family law in Texas, this is a conversation worth having early and often.

Mediation doesn’t make the pie bigger.
It just stops it from getting smaller.

Take a look: 🔗

Once upon a time in the Kingdom of the Courthouse, a once happy couple found themselves quarreling over a fine golden pie that had long sustained them both. Unable to agree on how to slice it, they each summoned the wisest counselors in the land – learned lawyers, skilled in the ancient arts of ar...

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