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O'Connor's Texas Family Law Handbook 2012

By Joan Foote Jenkins, Randall B. Wilhite

Update frequency: Annually

Free update period: 60 days before next edition is released

Format: Softbound portable book

Dimensions: 7.5" x 10"

Page Count: 1220

ISBN: 978-1-59839-132-9

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Whether you’re filing a suit for conservatorship, modifying a possession order, or enforcing a child-support order, O’Connor’s Texas Family Law Handbook will explain each unique family-law process and provide you with expert analysis, the most recent case law, and an explanation of the applicable statutes.

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  • Practice like an expert. You may not be board-certified in family law, but you’ll feel like an expert when you’re relying on commentaries that explain the basics (of course) and that also tackle the complex substantive and procedural nuances so common to family-law practice. Our commentaries don’t just repeat the code; we analyze the case law, statutes, procedural rules, and secondary sources to give you the complete picture – whether you’ve been practicing six months or 20 years.
  • Save time. Save money. With over 4,500 cases cited, you’ll jump-start your research with ease and focused confidence.
  • Understand the law. Don’t get caught off guard because you don’t have time to keep up with changes in the law. With hundreds of legislative changes guaranteed by the Texas Legislature each session, our commentaries not only highlight these changes but explain and troubleshoot the new laws as well.
  • Don’t make mistakes. Our authors give you the benefit of their many years of board-certified family-law experience by providing practice tips and caution notes, so you don’t have to learn the hard way.
  • Find answers fast. Don’t waste your time flipping through pages to find what you need. Our commentaries provide helpful tabs, headings, and organizational numbering.
Chapters
  1. The Family Relationship—The marriage relationship, the parent-child relationship, family rights, duties, and liabilities, medical treatment of a child, petition for name change, and family violence and child abuse
  2. Marital Property—Characterization, managing marital property, liability of marital property, marital agreements, and homestead rights
  3. Suits to Dissolve Marriage Without Children—Divorce, annulment, void marriage, and spousal maintenance
  4. Original Suits Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship—Choosing the court and challenging jurisdiction, court appointments, dissolution with children, conservatorship, child support, parentage, termination, and grandparent and sibling access
  5. Temporary Relief—Temporary restraining orders, temporary injunctions, and temporary orders
  6. Protective Orders—Ex parte orders, protective orders, magistrate’s orders, and law enforcement
  7. Dividing & Confirming Marital Property—Real property, personal property, liabilities, QDROs, and reimbursement and economic contribution
  8. Postdissolution Partition of Community Property—Postdissolution partition under the Family Code, postdissolution under the Property Code
  9. Modification—Texas and foreign conservatorship orders, possession or access orders during military duty, possession or access orders after military duty ends, and Texas and foreign child-support orders
  10. Enforcement of Child-Support Orders—Contempt, clarification, reduction of child-support arrearages to judgment, wage withholding, child-support liens, levies on financial institutions, and license suspension.
  11. Enforcement of Orders of Possession or Access—Contempt, clarification, additional periods of possession or access, habeas corpus, interference with possessory interest in a child (money damages), license suspension.

    12. Index

Charts
  • Calculating Remaining Principal & Interest
  • Child-Support Guidelines
  • Child-Support Record
  • Community-Out-First Ledger
  • Comparison of Postjudgment Wage-Withholding Methods
  • Counties with Family District Courts
  • Crediting Current & Nondelinquent Support Payments
  • Crediting Interest
  • Crediting Principal
  • Distinguishing Protective Orders
  • Expert Gem & Jewelry Appraisers
  • Expert Personal-Property Appraisers
  • Federal Minimum Wage by Effective Date
  • Inception of Title to Property
  • Jurisdiction—Multiple Child-Support Orders (modification suit)
  • Jurisdiction—One Child-Support Order (modification suit)
  • Legal Consequences of Family Violence
  • Marital Property Liable Under Family Code
  • Medical-Consent Rights of Conservators
  • Methods of Enforcing Child Support
  • Methods of Enforcing Orders of Possession or Access
  • Multiple-Family Adjusted Guidelines
  • Nationally Recognized Real-Estate Appraisers
  • Overview of Court Appointments Under Chapter 107
  • Partition Suits—Family Code vs. Property Code
  • Payments Subject to Reimbursement Claim
  • Rights & Duties of Conservators
  • State-Certified or Licensed Real-Estate Appraisers
  • Statutory Grounds for Termination
  • Texas Property Exemptions
  • Valuation Sources for Art & Antiques
  • Valuation Sources for Collectibles
  • Valuation Sources for Precious Metals
  • Valuation Sources for Vehicles
  • When to File an Annulment
  • Where to Maintain a Suit for Divorce
  • Who Can File an Annulment
  • Who Can File Protective Orders for Family Violence
Legislation explained! O’Connor’s analyzes and explains the Family Code legislative changes for you. Just a few key changes that are analyzed in the new edition:
  • New chapter on postdissolution partition of community property. This chapter discusses how former spouses can bring a suit to divide jointly owned property after a final judgment has been rendered to dissolve their marriage. The chapter walks you through how to bring a postdissolution suit under the Family Code as well as the Property Code. 
  • Newly reorganized chapter on court appointments in suits affecting the parent-child relationship. The chapter is now organized by the appointment being made, so the requirements and procedures involved in making SAPCR appointments are now even easier to access and understand.
  • The most current case law and legal analysis.