Law Office of Bryan Fagan PLLC Podcast

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast explains why Texas judges deny child support modification requests even when a parent's income or circumstances have genuinely changed, making clear that filing a modification case never guarantees a new order because the burden of proof rests entirely on the parent requesting the change and courts are bound by strict statutory rules rather...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast tackles one of the most common myths in Texas family law, that there is a single universal child support modification form parents can simply download and file, explaining instead that the correct paperwork depends entirely on whether a parent pursues an administrative request through the Office of the Attorney General or files a formal petitio...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast walks Texas parents through the full child support modification process, starting with the critical reminder that support obligations never change automatically no matter how much life circumstances shift, and moving through the two legal pathways that can qualify a parent to file, the material and substantial change standard, the special excep...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast breaks down exactly when and how an existing child support order can be legally modified in Texas, starting by dispelling the myth that a mandatory three-year wait applies to every case, then walking through the two statutory paths available under Family Code Section 156.401, proving a material and substantial change in circumstances such as a...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast breaks down the legal realities of modifying child support in Texas, starting by dispelling the common myth that parents must wait a mandatory three years before seeking any change, then explaining the two paths available under Family Code Section 156.401, proving a material and substantial change in circumstances such as a significant income s...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast tackles one of the most misunderstood concepts in Texas family law, what actually qualifies as a material and substantial change sufficient to modify a custody, conservatorship, or possession order, explaining how judges apply a comparative framework that weighs the historical baseline at the time of the prior order against the intervening chan...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast breaks down exactly what it takes to build a successful custody modification case in Texas, starting with the two-part legal threshold requiring both a material and substantial change in circumstances and a showing that the requested change serves the child's best interest, then walking through how to establish a historical baseline anchore...

In this episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast, we take a deep dive into how and when a Texas custody order can be legally modified, explaining that courts heavily favor stability for children and will only consider a change if the requesting parent can prove both a material and substantial change in circumstances and that the requested change serves the child's best interest; the episod...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast explains how Texas parents can legally modify a child visitation, or possession and access, order, starting with the translation of everyday terms like custody and visitation into their Texas legal equivalents, conservatorship and possession and access, and then walking through the primary standard for modification under Texas law, a material a...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast explains how and when Texas parents can legally modify a child visitation, or possession and access, schedule, starting with the core requirement under Texas Family Code Section 156.101 that a parent show a material and substantial change in circumstances, such as a job change, a move of more than one hundred miles, a change in the child's...

In this episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast, we take a deep dive into how asset division actually works in a Texas divorce, focusing on families in Rockwall County and surrounding communities like Heath, Fate, and Royse City, and dispelling the common misconception that community property automatically means an even fifty-fifty split, explaining instead that Texas courts are required...

In this episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast, we take a deep dive into what happens when a former spouse refuses to comply with the terms of a Texas divorce decree, focusing on families in Rockwall County and surrounding communities like Heath, Fate, and Royse City, and covering how courts enforce both property division and child support obligations after a divorce is finalized; we exp...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast examines whether a Mediated Settlement Agreement survives when a Texas family law case is dismissed, starting with the statutory requirements that make an MSA legally binding under Texas Family Code section 6.602 for divorce or section 153.0071 for suits involving children, including the required prominently displayed language stating the agree...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast tackles whether Texas actually has alimony, establishing upfront that court-ordered support is not automatic and that Texas law imposes strict limits even though spouses always retain the freedom to negotiate their own contractual alimony as part of a settlement, then drawing the crucial distinction between spousal maintenance, the statutory co...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast breaks down how alimony and spousal support actually work in a Rockwall County, Texas divorce, starting with the crucial legal distinction between court-ordered spousal maintenance, which is governed by Chapter 8 of the Texas Family Code and can be enforced through contempt of court, and private contractual alimony, which is a voluntary agreeme...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast explains exactly what a divorce modification is under Texas law, starting with the foundational point that a divorce decree is not one unchangeable document but a set of separate orders that each follow different rules, clarifying that while conservatorship, child support, and court-ordered spousal maintenance can be modified when circumstances...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast is a complete explainer on adoption in Rockwall County, Texas, opening with the range of adoption paths available under Texas law, including stepparent adoption, relative or kinship adoption, private placement, agency adoption, adult adoption, and adoption through the CPS foster system, then walking through the four core steps of the Texas adop...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast serves as a complete explainer on modifying a Texas divorce decree, starting by clarifying the difference between what courts will and will not allow parents to change after a final order, noting that property and debt division is permanently settled while conservatorship, possession and access, child support, and spousal maintenance can be rev...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast breaks down what happens when a divorce decree no longer matches a family's current circumstances, walking through the legal standard for modifying court orders under Texas Family Code Chapter 156, which requires proving a material and substantial change since the original order, such as a parent relocating, a significant change in income,...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast tackles debt division in a Texas divorce for families in Rockwall County, Heath, Fate, and Royse City, opening with the harsh reality that a family court judge dividing up debt does not erase anyone's existing contract with a bank or creditor, and that a divorce decree ordering an ex-spouse to pay a debt does not protect the other spouse if...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast reframes legal planning for Rockwall County families and business owners, moving from the idea of a basic reactive will toward a proactive legacy plan, opening with the reality that roughly seventy percent of people in the United States die without a will and that most who do plan are prompted reactively by a trip or sudden illness, resulting i...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast tackles international child custody disputes from a Rockwall County perspective, covering parents in Rockwall, Heath, Fate, Royse City, and the surrounding communities who face the added complexity of a custody case crossing international borders, opening with how these situations rapidly become a shifting mix of Texas law, foreign legal system...

This episode of the Law Office of Bryan Fagan podcast is a full explainer on mother's rights under Texas family law, built for moms in Rockwall County, Heath, Fate, Royse City, and the surrounding communities facing divorce, contested custody, or modifications to an existing order, opening by dismantling the myth that courts automatically favor mothers and establishing that the Texas Family Co...

This episode breaks down what Texas law actually says about fathers' rights, starting with the common misconception that mothers get an automatic edge in custody cases — Texas Family Code Section 153.003 requires courts to evaluate both parents without regard to marital status or sex, and there is no separate statute carving out special protections for fathers, only the same conservatorship fr...

Texas has no statute called parental alienation, but that does not mean the conduct behind the label goes unaddressed in a custody case, and in this episode we walk through how Texas courts actually handle these disputes for families in Rockwall County and across the state, starting with why Chapter 153 of the Family Code never defines parental alienation as its own claim and instead channels thes...