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CROSSOVER: Child-sex-assault appeal highlights preservation and hearsay pathways family lawyers can use for child outcry and domestic-incident statements
Ninth Court Affirms Termination Order and Holds Father Failed to Preserve Sufficiency Complaints After Jury Trial
CROSSOVER: Dallas memo opinion reinforces that child-victim testimony and SANE history alone can sustain repeated-abuse findings despite memory gaps and alternate-abuser evidence
Tenth Court Holds Family Code Section 161.211(a) Bars Untimely Bill of Review Attacking Termination Order
Waco Court Affirms Termination After Anders Review and Denies Appointed Counsel’s Motion to Withdraw
CROSSOVER: Waco Court Finds Speedy-Trial Claim Unpreserved and Allows Examining Physician to Relay Child-Exam History Through Advocacy Center Translator
Waco Court Affirms Termination in Anders Appeal and Denies Counsel’s Withdrawal Absent Independent Good Cause
CROSSOVER: Expired Plenary Power Saves Domesticated Foreign Judgment: Texas Court Cannot Vacate UEFJA Filing After Deadline
CROSSOVER: Child-sex-assault appeal highlights preservation and hearsay pathways family lawyers can use for child outcry and domestic-incident statements
Ninth Court Affirms Termination Order and Holds Father Failed to Preserve Sufficiency Complaints After Jury Trial
CROSSOVER: Dallas memo opinion reinforces that child-victim testimony and SANE history alone can sustain repeated-abuse findings despite memory gaps and alternate-abuser evidence
Tenth Court Holds Family Code Section 161.211(a) Bars Untimely Bill of Review Attacking Termination Order
Waco Court Affirms Termination After Anders Review and Denies Appointed Counsel’s Motion to Withdraw
CROSSOVER: Waco Court Finds Speedy-Trial Claim Unpreserved and Allows Examining Physician to Relay Child-Exam History Through Advocacy Center Translator
Waco Court Affirms Termination in Anders Appeal and Denies Counsel’s Withdrawal Absent Independent Good Cause
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March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals Fourteenth Court of Appeals Grants Motion to Dismiss Duplicative Appeal under TRAP 42.1
March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Jurisdictional Defect Blueprint: Dismissing Misdemeanor Indictments in Family Violence Crossovers
March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Jurisdictional Fatalities: How Sloppy Transfer Orders Can Systematically Dismiss ‘Crossover’ Misdemeanor Charges
March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Jurisdictional ‘Ghost’ Transfers: Using Defective Transfer Orders to Dismiss Proceedings in Multi-Court Counties
March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: The ‘Herculean Task’ of Overcoming a Guilty Plea: Why Recantations Rarely Undo the Family Law Consequences of a Criminal Conviction
March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Silence and Deception: Leveraging Post-Incident ‘Cleanup’ and Private Fifth Amendment Invocations in Family Litigation
March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Protecting Your Contempt Order: Why Silence at ‘Sentencing’ Waives the Right of Allocution in Quasi-Criminal Family Law Matters
March 9, 2026 Case Law Update Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: The ‘Exhibit A’ Jurisdictional Trap: Why Incomplete Transfer Orders Between District and County Courts Can Render Orders Void.
March 4, 2026 Case Law Update Family Violence Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: The ‘Paper Trail’ Defense: Challenging Jurisdiction When Family Violence Cases are Improperly Transferred Between Courts
March 4, 2026 Appeals Case Law Update Deadlines Texas Court of Appeals Eighth Court of Appeals Dismisses Appeal for Failure to Pay Fees and Secure Clerk’s Record
Case Law Update Property Texas Court of Appeals Fourteenth Court of Appeals Affirms Separate Property Characterization Supported by Pre-Marital Titles and Deeds
Appeals Case Law Update Property Texas Court of Appeals Second Court of Appeals Remands Property Division Following Partial Settlement in Divorce Appeal
Appeals Case Law Update Property Texas Court of Appeals Appellate Consequences: Failure to File a Reporter’s Record in a Texas Divorce Appeal
Case Law Update Property Texas Court of Appeals CROSSOVER: Vicarious Liability and the Community Estate: How ‘Negligent Entrustment’ Can Liquidate Family Business Assets
Case Law Update Evidence Fault Texas Court of Appeals Cruelty as Coercive Control: Proving Pet Abuse in Family Law Cases Without Costly Expert Testimony
