Austin Divorce Lawyers & Attorneys

Residency and Filing Requirements: In order to file for a divorce in Texas, residency requirements must be met for the court to accept the case. If the court discovers it does not have jurisdictional rights to hear the case it will not be accepted or it will eventually be dismissed. The requirements are as follows: A suit for divorce may not be maintained in this state unless at the time the suit is filed either the petitioner or the respondent has been: (1) a domiciliary of this state for the preceding six-month period; and (2) a resident of the county in which the suit is filed for the preceding 90-day period. If one spouse has been a domiciliary of this state for at least the last six months, a spouse domiciled in another state or nation may file a suit for divorce in the county in which the domiciliary spouse resides at the time the petition is filed. A person not previously a resident of this state who is serving in the armed forces of the United States and has been stationed at one or more military installations in this state for at least the last six months and at a military installation in a county of this state for at least the last 90 days is considered to be a Texas domiciliary and a resident of that county for those periods for the purpose of filing suit for dissolution of a marriage. (Texas Code - Family Code - Chapters: 6.301) Grounds for Filing: The Petition for Divorce must declare the appropriate Texas grounds upon which the divorce is being sought. The appropriate lawful ground will be that which the parties agree upon and can substantiate, or that which the filing spouse desires to prove to the court. The divorce grounds are as follows:

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10/31/2007 5:47:48 PM By Chris Steinbach Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN

Jason Beloate struggles to tell his story.

At 26 — with an earring in his left ear, a slight goatee and a baseball cap pulled down over his eyes — he speaks softly in a restaurant booth at an Austin truck stop. He fidgets, wipes his eyes and swallows hard.

Still, he wants his story published. The publicity may help him control the temper that landed him in jail for abusing his ex-wife, who has an active restraining order against him even now, two years after their divorce. Even more important to Beloate, the publicity will help the program that helped him. It will help him let other people know there is a better way.

“If one parent is abusive to the other parent, it’s going to affect the children,” Beloate said. “I grew up in a very abusive (family) … the way my dad was to my mom.”

His parents divorced in 1990, when Beloate was 10.

Beloate, who married at 18, thought violence was an acceptable way to behave when he lost his temper. The smallest of things would trigger his anger — money, the fact that he was young, immature and often tired and seldom home because he worked as truck driver.