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Collaborative Mediation: The New Divorce Solution

Stacey H. Langenbahn, J.D. designed collaborative "team" mediation as an innovative approach to custody and divorce that combines the best of collaborative divorce and mediation into a new divorce solution that is healthy, family-centered, and affordable.

Planning for Divorce with Kids: The Summer Divorce

Stacey H. Langenbahn, J.D., Attorney-Mediator

If you are thinking about divorce and you are a parent with a child who will be in school in the fall (or distance learning at home until school re-opens), you owe it to yourselves and your kids to explore Detente's exclusive summer divorce.

How Do I Get Alimony or Spousal Support in Texas?

Does Texas Have Contractual Alimony or Spousal Maintenance? Yes!

Protect Yourself Early when an Ex Will Owe You Money after Divorce

How do you protect yourself when your soon-to-be-ex will keep your share of a community property asset and pay you for it after divorce?

How to Get "Full Custody" in Texas

All too often a parent will vow to fight for “full custody” with a scare tactic of threatening to take the children away if the other parent does not agree to do whatever he or she wants. It is very rare for a court in Texas to terminate a parent’s rights entirely, meaning only one parent would have the right to make all the decisions for the child (legal custody or “conservatorship”) and have the right to all the parenting time (physical custody or “possession”) of the child to the absolute exclusion of the other parent.

How to Get Judge's Approval of an Unequal Mediated Agreement

Will a Texas judge approve a mediated divorce settlement agreement that significantly favors one spouse over the other, like when one spouse gets sixty percent (60%) of the community property and the other gets forty percent (40%)? Yes, with the right preparation through a competent and qualified divorce mediator!

Texas Now Open for Gay Marriage and Gay Divorce

The U.S. Supreme Court made a landmark ruling today striking down states' bans on gay marriage. This ruling not only authorizes gay same sex marriages in Texas, but it also allows previously forbidden same sex divorce in the Lone Star state.

Divorce and Brain Tricks: What Color Is This Dress?

A striped dress and a simple question, “What color is this dress?” Some people see white and gold; others blue and black. No matter which colors they see, people are adamant that only their perception is correct. This exact kind of positioning happens in divorce too.

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

If you are asking yourself, "Should I stay or should I go?" consider that many people who are on the brink of divorce do reconcile and rejuvenate their marriages. The catalyst for change is often the divorce negotiations themselves.

Worst Divorce Mistake about the House

Many divorcing parents strongly believe a house itself represents stability and security for the children. They are afraid to sell the house for fear of adding to the children's upheaval. These feelings are valid and understandable. However, parents who allow their fears and emotions about the child's welfare to surpass common sense and sound financial planning as drivers of decision making about the house often find it is their undoing.

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