OT: Any Texas divorce lawyers here ?, Looks like I am in the market for one !! Options

[David_S]

Title says it all ! I guess I am in the market for a divorce lawyer in the panhandle of Texas. Anybody know of one or any advice ??

[cooltimes]

Advice is worth exactly what you pay for it. If free, it is just an opinion.

Inquire at your region, city, county bar association about the attorney who is spokesperson for your local bar association. Hire her/him. but have their rules and terms of service to you on signed paper. They can use temps but still charge you those steep hourly rates as if they themselves are doing each minute. There is a lot more but they will fill in the blanks if you stipulaate their fees in entirety.

Respect is your 1st tool needed and an attorney who speaks for the entire bar group at municipal functions will command the respect of the wife's attorney. Sort of deceitful but you have to clone Alfred E. Neuman's attitude. Not worry or badger the time factor.

Will cost YOU more but normally will be settled in a much shorter term. That is important to you as well as your soon to be ex-spouse. The longer it runs, the more ragged the results become.

If someone gets in your face, and they will, smoke a REAL stinking cigar and blow smoke rings, not rings of fire in their directions. Wife's friends are still wife's friends. Be wary and distant to their "helpful" support. Don't be avenging and telling everyone in the world your personal business and your spouse's faults. Character is always the best trait to keep from tripping over the shadows of fabrication and hear say.

BTDT.

BTW. I am celebrating our 50th anniversary in a year or 2 and believe me, I learned to follow the advice my head of the bar association lawyer told me way back when we walked on those burning coals you are standing on. Keep cool.

Good luck