Tarrant County
Fort Worth Family Law Attorney
Divorce, custody, child support and property division for Fort Worth families — from a firm whose attorney is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.
Family Law in Fort Worth
Fort Worth is the Tarrant County seat, where the family courts sit at the Family Law Center downtown. For purposes that matters in a specific way: a Fort Worth case is filed in Tarrant County, heard by Tarrant County judges, and governed by Tarrant County's local rules and standing orders. Fort Worth is served by several districts besides Fort Worth ISD, including Keller, Northwest, Crowley and Eagle Mountain-Saginaw.
The courthouse is at Tarrant County Family Law Center, 200 E. Weatherford St., Fort Worth, TX 76196. Families here are usually served by Fort Worth ISD, which is the practical anchor for school-calendar questions in a possession schedule — exchanges, spring break, and the start and end of the summer period all key off the district calendar rather than a generic date.
Filing in Tarrant County. Texas requires that one spouse have lived in the county of filing for the 90 days before the petition (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.301), on top of six months' residency in the state. A recent move between Tarrant County and a neighbouring county can reset that 90-day clock even though nothing about the marriage changed.
How We Help Fort Worth Families
Divorce in Fort Worth
Texas is a no-fault state, but it is not a simple one. What your divorce costs, how long it takes and what you walk away with are decided by rules that most people meet for the first time on the worst month of their life.
Child Custody in Fort Worth
Texas does not use the word custody. It uses conservatorship, possession and access — three separate questions that people collapse into one, and that courts decide separately.
Child Support in Fort Worth
Child support in Texas starts as arithmetic and turns into an argument about one number: what counts as your net resources.
Property Division in Fort Worth
Dividing a Texas marital estate is two jobs in sequence: decide what is in the estate, then decide who gets it. Most of the money is won or lost in the first one.
About the Firm
Lisa G. Garza has practiced Texas family law for more than 30 years and is board certified in the specialty. The firm keeps offices on the Dallas North Tollway and in McKinney, and represents families throughout Tarrant County and the wider metroplex.