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In Re Hall, 433 S.W.3rd 203 (Tex. App. - Houston 2014)

May 28, 2014

OUTCOME: Obligor was remanded back to jail because the Appellate Court found that the repeal of 157.162 (d) was a repeal of a procedural rule only and not an affirmative defense barred by ex post facto application.

We won. I represented the Obligee, the recipient of child support. Obligor appealed the trial court's jail sentence for failure to pay child support based on the repeal of 157.162 (d) of Texas Famil ... y Law Code, (which allows an Obligor to catch up his / her support prior to hearing to suspend the judge's ability to impose a jail sentence), which occurred AFTER Obligor received the lawsuit but BEFORE trial, when the jail sentence was imposed.

Child support

In re Broussard, 112 S.W.3rd 827 (Tex. App. - Houston 2003)

Aug 05, 2003

OUTCOME: Court of Appeals agreed and declared the order void and released the client.

We won. I represented the Obligor who was found in contempt for nonpayment of child support. The sentence of 180 days was to occur on weekends only AND "until further order of the Court", which pro ... vides no end to the 180 day jail sentence. We appealed claiming the order was void due to being ambiguous and susceptible to 2 different meanings.