Sugar Land Criminal Defense Blog

Texas business owners who begin contemplating divorce often have concerns about the ways in which property division can impact their company. It can be helpful to have an overview of your options for keeping your business running.

Every situation has its unique aspects, so general rules and guidelines may work very differently in various cases. 

With nearly 40 to 50 percent of marriages ending in divorce, it probably does not come as a surprise that some spouses break up and find themselves with a financial mess on their hands. After all, just as spouses end up accumulating assets together during the course of the marriage, they also accumulate debt. Determining what is separate versus community, or shared, property during the property division process in Texas can understandably be challenging.

Texas is one of only a handful of states that adhere to the community property rule. In these states, all assets that two spouses have accrued while married will be split 50/50 by the court. This is the opposite of what happens in an equitable distribution state, where a judge will split the assets in a manner that he or she deems to be equitable or fair.

For some married couples in Texas, the process of getting divorced is emotionally painful yet straightforward. However, this is not true for those with children. A couple of tips may help parents to help their children through the divorce process emotionally while they simultaneously work on their parenting plans or aggressively pursue custody in court.

First, keeping the children out of disagreements that one may have with the other party is critical. Even though parents generally try to keep their children from being stuck in the middle of such arguments, they often do not. The children can mentally suffer from this, and unfortunately, the impacts can be long lasting.

A pharmacist in Texas currently faces 12 felony criminal charges involving drugs. His alleged drug crimes include selling marijuana and various prescription drugs that are commonly abused. The man facing drug charges is 33 years old.

Apparently, the man reportedly sold marijuana and prescription drugs to an undercover police officer. He is alleged to have conducted a couple of large transactions in a single day after explaining to the operative that he could sell him a bulk amount of Valium, oxycodone, Concerta and Xanax for $1,000. In the first transaction, the man reportedly gave the operative the above-mentioned pills as well as lorazepam pills for $500. Valium, lorazepam and Xanax are all used for treating anxiety, whereas Concerta is used for treating attention deficit disorder, and oxycodone is an opioid used to treat severe pain.