The Uncontested Divorce Hearing To reiterate: Before you head to the courthouse, make sure that you know to which courthouse you need to go by visiting http://www.justex.net/courts/family/familycourts.aspx.  The Harris County Family Courthouse is located at 1115 Congress, Houston, Texas 77002.  Some of the family court judges have, however, moved to the “new” civil courthouse at [...]

Scheduling Your Uncontested Divorce Hearing You may schedule your uncontested divorce hearing any day after sixty days (including weekends and holidays) from the date on which you filed your Original Petition (i.e.  if you file on January 1st, you can set your hearing any day after March 3rd).  Typically, uncontested divorce hearings are held Monday [...]

Filing Your Waiver If you and your soon to be ex-spouse have already agreed to everything, you may be tempted to try to file everything at once.  Don’t!  The Waiver of Citation cannot be signed or dated before the Original Petition is filed.  Thus, unless your soon to be ex-spouse is with you when you [...]

Filing Your Petition To start the divorce process, you must file an Original Petition.  Petitions are filed in the basement of the Harris County Family Courthouse, located at 1115 Congress, Houston, Texas 77002.     There are two entrances to the Family Courthouse that both lead to the same elevators.  When you enter the Family Courthouse, you’ll [...]

Finding where to go You’ll be visiting the courthouse at least three times during this process.  Thus, before you head to the courthouse, make sure that you know to which courthouse you need to go by visiting http://www.justex.net/courts/family/familycourts.aspx.  The Harris County Family Courthouse, where you’ll file most of your documents, is located at 1115 Congress, [...]

I remember the first time that I had to file a divorce petition in the Harris County Family Courthouse like it was yesterday.  After spending three years in law school, passing the Texas bar exam, and practicing law for a number of years at a downtown law firm, navigating the family court system was probably [...]