Recommended Titles and Treatises
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Family Law
O'Connor's Texas family law handbook
1 volume. Updated annually.
This annually updated publication from O'Connor's extensively covers Texas family law with in-depth analysis, current case law, and information about recent legislative changes. The chapters cover the family relationship, marital property, suits to dissolve marriage without children, original suits affecting the parent-child relationship, temporary relief, protective orders, dividing and confirming marital property, modification, enforcement of child-support orders, and enforcement of orders of possession or access.