Attorney Matt Zimmerman offers each client a personal touch for their legal needs.
With a commitment to nurturing each case with the attention it deserves, Matt optimizes the odds for favorable outcomes in matters of Divorce, Family Law, Estate Planning, and Civil Litigation.
Below highlights some of Matt’s notable victories. Keep in mind, every client and their case is distinctive, and the successes achieved are tailored to each unique situation. Results may vary, as no two clients’ circumstances are identical.
Secure Your Children’s Best Interests
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…
Man’s Paternity Dispute
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…
Mom Gets Kids Back- Grand Jury No Billed
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…
How to Establish Paternity After Father Dies
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…
Divorce – Successful Judgement
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…
Child Custody Dispute – Protective Order Granted
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…
Child Custody Dispute – Drug Testing
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….
Child Custody Dispute – Grandchild In Danger
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…
Family Probate Cases Six Years Apart
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,…
Child Custody Dispute – Custody Maintained
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…
Termination of Parent-Child Relationship – Termination Achieved
RESULTS: Termination of Parent Child Relationship Family Law Attorney Matt Zimmerman goes to trial after his client divorced his spouse after he learned she had sexually assaulted their 2-year-old daughter. The spouse went to prison, but the father needed to terminate her rights to prevent further trauma to the child. Course of Action Matt filed…
Child Custody Dispute – Unrestricted Custody Achieved
Matt’s client, a military veteran, was salty and crass. He got into a few altercations with his child’s mother after their divorce, and she moved for a protective order against him to prevent access to his son. To defend the case Matt moved for a protective order on behalf of his client. While the…
Client – Earlene Martinez in her own words
“I have used Attorney Matt Zimmerman to represent me in seeking a court-ordered protective order, to finalize a divorce, to write my last will and testament, to seek an expungement, and to file an affidavit in contempt of court matter. In each case, Matt was found to be professional, compassionate, organized, thoughtful, resourceful, and…
Cruelty To Animals
RESULTS: Cruelty To Animals Case In 2016 I took on a case where the victim was a dog. My client had shot his neighbors’ dog – a medium to a large-sized mixed-breed dog with a fluffy blonde coat. The law enforcement investigation showed the dog was not in an act of aggression on my…
Contract for Deed Case
My client – let’s call him Jason – and his wife is extremely nice. They’re salt of the earth-type people, so it was very distressing to me to learn that they could lose their home, even though they had paid for it! They were not being treated well by the seller/financier of their home….
