Family law is the legal aspect of your life that includes your relationship between you and your husband or wife and your children. These activities involve prenuptial agreements, adoptions and divorces. Prenuptial agreements would involve how you and your spouse would handle your properties in the event of a divorce. When divorce strikes, you will be in an emotional turmoil, and you will need legal counsel on how to attain child custody, child support, alimony or constant support from your spouse, division of marital property, allocations of conjugal debts and how will they will be enforced.

Your Texas family lawyer can also protect you in the event that you are involved in spousal abuse. Our society is no longer a stranger to battered wives, but there are also cases where we hear of battered husbands. If you are one of them, then availing yourself of a family lawyer to protect your legal rights will be your best defense. An abused child also needs defense. There are lawyers who provide pro bono work to defend those who are in need. If you are a child that is abused by a parent or by both parents, you can seek the counsel of a lawyer who is willing to defend you for free.

There are also cases where an under-aged child seeks to be emancipated from his or her parents. If you feel that you are unsafe with your parents and find the need to be divorced from them, you can also seek legal counsel to avail of your legal right.

If you are involved in a divorce proceeding wherein your spouse is uncooperative in providing your alimony or for child support, having the protection of your family lawyer will help enforce the rights that were ruled yours by the court.