While divorced fathers generally see their children less during the school year, summer provides a great opportunity for fathers to spend more quality time with their children.

Last Spring, we provided an overview of the Texas Stock Exchange. One year later, the Exchange has clearly moved from concept to reality, following its June 27, 2026 Final Confidence Test and the launch of phased trading in July. The key question now is whether the Exchange can scale smoothly, attract listings, and build meaningful liquidity as it expands through 2026 and into 2027.

A recent ruling from the New York Supreme Court reinforced such limitations, and here Casey Erick explains that opinion and also how Texas approaches the same topics.

In our digital age, more and more estate planning clients are storing and maintaining assets and information electronically.

In bankruptcies, a debtor or trustee may claw back legitimate payments the debtor made to its creditors within 90 days prior to filing of bankruptcy. In general terms, a preference claim is a transfer made (a) to or for the benefit of a creditor; (b) for or on account of antecedent debt owed by the debtor; (c) while the debtor was insolvent (liabilities exceed assets); (d) within 90 days before the bankruptcy petition was filed or one year if made to an insider; (e) such that it allows the creditor to receive more than it would have received if the debtor had not made the payment and the claim was paid through the bankruptcy process.

In an opinion out of the United States Bankruptcy Court for Delaware, known as the In re Cyber Litigation, No. 20-12702, 2023 Bankr.

In Melinda Abbt v. City of Houston, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a summary judgment in favor of the City of Houston on a firefighter's claim for sexual harassment/hostile work environment.

Pregnant workers often experience extra hardships in the workplace. It is very common for pregnant workers to require more frequent rest breaks and bathroom breaks, to need to sit...

Fathers going through divorce in Texas often face an uphill battle.

Subject to certain defenses, in a bankruptcy proceeding, transfers made to a creditor within 90 days of the transferor filing bankruptcy can be clawed back as a preference under the Bankruptcy Code.

When a debtor receives a shipment of goods within 20 days before the date it files bankruptcy and has failed to pay for said shipment prior to the bankruptcy filing, the creditor is entitled...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals holding in Raymond James & Associates, Inc. v. Jalbert (In re German Pellets Louisiana, LLC), 91 F.4th 802 (5th Cir. 2024)...

A bankruptcy filing can preempt state law, permitting termination of a General Partner’s management right. Generally speaking, partnership agreements provide and state laws provide for the removal of a General Partner’s management rights when a General Partner files bankruptcy. But, what happens when the General Partner files bankruptcy and such management rights become property of the estate?

The phrase "Let's kill all the lawyers" is often quoted out of context, contributing to its frequent misinterpretation.

In Part 1 of this discussion, I shared some common traits and tactics of high-conflict coparents, who frequently have traits in common with narcissists and cause chaos in the lives of their exes and children.

When a debtor receives a bankruptcy discharge, section 524(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code prohibits a creditor from seeking to collect a prepetition debt against the discharged debtor or its property.

When a business owner faces a divorce, an initial fear is often, “Will I lose my company?” There is a common misconception that the business entity itself – the LLC, the corporation, or the partnership – is an asset of the marital estate.

Imagine: An insured person (the "Insured") –you or someone who loves your minor child — names your child as the beneficiary under a life insurance policy.

On April 26, 2024, the Texas Supreme Court issued a per curiam opinion in Frank Thomas Shumate, Jr., et al. v. Berry Contracting, L.P., et al., both clarifying (and expanding) the application of settlement credits.

For some background, a lease is considered an executory contract. An executory contract is a contract between a debtor and another party in which each party still has important performance obligations remaining.