M. J. Hill & Associates, PLLC, has merged with Lonestar Law Firm and will continue to provide the community with efficient and cost-effective divorce and family law services.
Starting on the first day of 2019, those who get divorced in Texas or any other state will see a change to the status of alimony payments. For the first time since the Revenue Act of 1942 was passed, alimony will no longer be considered income to the recipient. It...
Couples with children filing for divorce in Texas sometimes prefer to settle custody issues with mediation in an attempt to reach mutually agreeable terms. This is also true with some celebrities in the process of ending a marriage. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie...
Marriage weaves together the financial lives of spouses in Texas. Unfortunately, the divorce process requires pulling the threads apart on everything. Real estate and retirement plans represent two major assets that many former couples must divide. Before making...
Gray divorces, or divorces among couples over the age of 50, are on the rise in Texas and across the United States. In fact, the Pew Research Center reports that these types of divorces have doubled since the 1990s. However, they can present special financial...
With the divorce rate remaining at about 50 percent in the country, Texas couples might want to think about and prepare for the possibility of divorce. While most happily married couples would dismiss this idea, it makes sense to be prepared for the future because...
Splitting up your assets is commonly a source of contention in a divorce. Spouses rarely agree on who should get what. The more valuable an asset is, the more likely you are to both want to lay claim to it. One of the assets most commonly fought over in divorce is the...
