Establishing Paternity in Texas

Determining the paternity of a child can be important for a variety of legal reasons. Whether you are seeking visitation rights or pursuing or challenging child support, establishing paternity can play a critical role. If a child’s paternity has not been identified, that missing piece of information can be important for both parents. If you have a legal need to determine a child’s paternity, you ...

Helping Your Children Overcome Divorce: Breaking the News

This article is the second in a three-part series meant to help you as you help your children overcome the difficult process of divorce. When going through the process of divorce, oftentimes, your children are the ones who end up suffering the most. To them, their world is being divided and destroyed. As their parents, it is your responsibility to help them through this time of uncertainty and ...

Helping Your Children Overcome Divorce: The Grief Cycle

This article is the first in a three-part series meant to help you as you help your children overcome the difficult process of divorce. As countless can attest, passing through divorce is difficult for all parties involved: each person has to pass through the grief cycle on their own, and in their own time. There is not a standard answer for what will help, no simple solution to alleviate the pain ...

A New Member of the Family: My Personal Experience with Adoption

On August 25, 2008, my adopted daughter, Mariela Abigail, was born at Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple, Texas. Her birth came less than twenty-four hours before Eathyn, my fifth child, was born. Mariela was born with a cleft lip and a cleft pallet, and spent several days in the neonatal intensive care unit before being sent home with her biological parents. Over the next several weeks, ...