RESULTS: Undermining Parental Rights? Case Details A mother with primary custody of her son found herself facing serious allegations from her ex-partner. As she made plans to relocate from Abilene to the Dallas metroplex, her son’s father raised concerns that she was attempting to undermine his parental rights. Legal Strategy & Defense Faced with these…
RESULTS: Father’s Paternity Not Listed Properly on Birth Certificate In a complex paternity dispute, Attorney Matt Zimmerman once again demonstrated the significance of experienced legal representation. The case began when our Client, who had separated from his wife after only six months of marriage, was informed that she was pregnant. Despite his efforts to manage…
RESULTS: Strategic Victory: Grand Jury Refuses Felony Injury to a Child Charges and Mother Gets Her Children Back. Mr. Blizzard and Mr. Zimmerman represented Client, a young mother, who had been involved in an abusive and controlling relationship. The combination of family law and criminal representation came together for this joint representation…
RESULTS: Establishing Paternity I recently had a young lady come to my office with a legal issue that revealed a strange quirk about Texas Family Law when it comes to how to establish paternity after father dies. My client, let’s call her Jen, became pregnant with her first child. She was preparing to marry the…
My client was a woman in her mid-sixties who had been married to a man for 8 years; they had no children together. He had been unfaithful to her and refused to accept responsibility for it, so she decided to leave him even though it would cost her having to downsize her lifestyle in a…
RESULT: Protective Order Granted In a child welfare case that goes to trial involving a request for a protective order, my client was a mother whose children were terrified of their father after he got drunk at a wedding, got in a fight with several men (including the security officer present), and then got arrested…
In this child custody case, my client, the father of two children, was paying child support and seeing his kids every other weekend after his divorce. However, one day he was distraught when he had his children tested for methamphetamine on the advice of his ex-wife’s former boyfriend who had seen drugs in her house….
RESULTS: Child Custody Dispute with Parents My clients were grandparents of a child whose mother and stepfather were starving the child. They were scapegoating him for all of the misbehaviors of his siblings. Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) were somewhat involved, but for the most part, the misdeeds of the parents went unnoticed – until…
Matt was retained to handle a probate case in November 2015 when our client’s fiance’ died suddenly. Our client posted this review on Google today. (7-1-2021) In our client’s words, “He (Matt) handled some of the unpleasant situations that arose in dealing with the family, and had the case processed effectively, just as I hoped,…
Matt’s client had lost custody of his child after he went to prison. His ex-wife filed writ of habeas corpus and took the child from the stepmother, with who the child was most comfortable with. Matt filed an intervention under Tex R. Civ. Proc. Petition for Modification with a special pleading requesting the court to…
