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Collaborative Law Basic Training - Summer 2010

Jimmy Verner
April 28, 2010 16:25

 Collaborative Law:  Two Day Basic Training by Janet P. Brumley About the Program:  This two day basic training will cover interest based negotiation, a comparison and contrast of collaborative practice with litigation and mediation, an introduction to the Protocols of...

Family Law From Around the Nation - Fall 2009

Jimmy Verner
April 24, 2010 00:11

State Bar of Texas Section Report - Family Law - Fall 2009 by Jimmy L. Verner, Jr. Alimony: The Georgia Supreme Court refused to apply the “two-witness” rule to execution of a prenuptial agreement because a prenuptial agreement that sets the amount of alimony to be paid upon...

A Primer on Exemptions for Dependents

Jimmy Verner
April 17, 2010 15:22

 In a recent Tax Court case, White v. Commissioner, the court summarized IRS requirements for claiming dependents. The taxpayer was divorced with two children. The children lived with the mother. The taxpayer paid his child support, paid for health insurance for the children and also made...

COBRA Continuation Health Coverage

Jimmy Verner
February 24, 2010 19:47

 As Congress searches for ways to stimulate the economy and lessen the impact of the recession, one idea being floated is to extend the 65% health insurance subsidy under COBRA. So what is COBRA, and what does it have to do with family law? If you get divorced, and your health insurance is...

Family Law From Around the Nation - Summer 2009

Jimmy Verner
February 22, 2010 20:05

 State Bar of Texas Section Report - Family Law - Summer 2009 by Jimmy L. Verner, Jr. Agreements: The Washington Supreme Court characterized a premarital agreement as substantively unfair because it “severely restricted the creation of community property,” but the court split...

Family Law From Around the Nation - Spring 2009

Jimmy Verner
February 12, 2010 20:10

State Bar of Texas Section Report - Family Law - Spring 2009 by Jimmy L. Verner, Jr. A deal’s a deal: The New York Court of Appeals upheld the parties’ French premarital agreement, which characterized property that each spouse “may come to own subsequently by any means...

Verner Publishes Grandparents' Rights in Texas

Jimmy Verner
January 19, 2010 20:46

Jimmy Verner announced today that Grandparents' Rights in Texas is now available as a Kindle eBook from amazon.com. A physical copy will soon be available through amazon's CreateSpace feature. In 2000, the United States Supreme Court decided a case called Troxel v. Granville. The Court ruled...

Family Law From Around the Nation - Winter 2008

Jimmy Verner
December 23, 2009 00:25

State Bar of Texas Section Report - Family Law - Winter 2008 by Jimmy L. Verner, Jr. Alimony: The Utah Supreme Court approved a divorce decree that increased alimony as each child reached majority because the reduction in child support necessarily enhanced the obligor spouse’s ability to pay....

Tex Parte Blog Features iPhone Child Support App

Jimmy Verner
July 30, 2009 23:38

Texas Lawyer's "Tex Parte Blog" posted a nice blurb about our iPhone app that calculates Texas guideline child support: Texas child support? There's an app for that. Jimmy Verner Jr. (pictured), a shareholder in Dallas' Verner & Brumley, has begun marketing a Texas child...

iPhone Application Calculates Texas Child Support

Jimmy Verner
July 24, 2009 23:52

Verner & Brumley, P.C., announces that Jimmy Verner has created an iPhone application that calculates Texas guideline child support. With only five inputs, anyone - whether an attorney or a person in the middle of a divorce or modification suit - can calculate the exact amount of Texas...