Find out about your rights, get answers to frequently asked legal questions and access forms
There are 309 resource(s) on TexasLawHelp
Page 3 of 16
Child Protective Services (CPS)
Family Violence Centers and Organizations
(Separate Website)
List of family violence centers and organizations that provide shelter, support services, as well as special services.
By: Texas Health and Human Services Commission
Fox26Law: Your Legal Questions Answered
(Separate Website)
Every Tuesday and Thursday in its 7 a.m. newscast on FOX 26 Morning News, legal analyst Chris Tritico offers up some free legal insight. On this page you can ask your questions, watch previous segments, and read Chris' online-only responses to various questions.
By: Fox26 KRIV
How long can I leave a child unattended in a vehicle?
(Separate Website)
By: Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
How to Select a Lawyer
(Separate Website)
By: The State Bar of Texas
Kincare Primer
(Separate Website)
This primer provides information to families, headed by a relative who are not involved with CPS, about their rights and responsibilities.
By: Texas Legal Services Center
Law Libraries in Texas
(Separate Website)
Law libraries in Texas.
By: Texas State Law Library
Legal Notice
Read more about how to give notice to a party, how to serve the document, how to service by publication and how to give your spouse legal notice.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Limited Scope Representation A way for people with limited money to afford an attorney.
By: Legal Hotlines for Texans
Protecting the Incapacitated: A Guide to Guardianship in Texas from Application to Oath
(Separate Website)
By: Texas Young Lawyer's Association
Serving the Document and the Certificate of Service If the other party in your case has filed an answer or appeared in court, and you need to file more documents in your case, you will need to give the other party a copy of the documents, or serve the documents. Read this to learn how to serve the document.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Sexual Assault Legal Advocacy Manual
(Separate Website)
A manual for advocates who deal with sexual assault issues, but also contains useful general information on sexual assault issues.
By: Texas Association Against Legal Assault
TANF for Grandparents TANF stands for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. It is a federal program to provide money and help to needy families with dependent children.
By: Legal Hotline for Texans
Video Helps Low-Income Texans Navigate the Court System
(Separate Website)
By: Texas Legal Services Center
Waiver of Parental Notification
(Separate Website)
By: Office of Court Administration
What Court Employees Can and Cannot Do
When going to court for a civil law case, here is a helpful handout that provides brief bullet points on what court personnel can and cannot do.
By: Texas Office of Court Administration
Modification Kit
Here you will find all of the documents needed to modify your child support and custody orders.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Read this in:
Spanish / Español
Answers to questions about Child Support in Texas
What is child support, how much is child support, how to establish child support payments, withholding orders and more answers to questions about child support.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Handbook on Child Support Enforcement
(Separate Website)
This resource provides helpful information about how to apply for child support enforcement services, how to find a noncustodial parent, how to establish paternity and child support orders, and how to enforce those orders across state lines.
By: Office of Child Support Enforcement
Affidavit of Inability to Pay Costs
(Separate Website)
Free form: The Affidavit of Inability to Pay Costs is a sworn statement, telling the court that you cannot pay the court's filing fees. (revised 3/11/2011)
Changing Child Support
All court orders involving children are subject to modification for changed circumstances.
By: Legal Aid of Northwest Texas - Dallas
Adobe Acrobat Reader required. (If you are using a screen reader that does not support PDF format, copy the PDF link, and use the Access Adobe online form to convert this file to HMTL text.)
Page 3 of 16
Information Not Legal Advice. This web site has been
prepared for general information purposes only. The information on this
web site is not legal advice. Legal advice involves the application of
legal knowledge and skills by a licensed attorney to your specific
circumstances.
Also, court rules vary from county to county as well as from state to
state, so some information on this web site may not be correct for where
you live. Laws also change frequently so the information contained in
this web site is not guaranteed to be up to date.
Therefore, the information contained in this web site cannot replace the
advice of a competent attorney licensed in your state.
Lawyer Advertising. In some jurisdictions this web site
may be considered lawyer advertising. The hiring of a lawyer is an
important decision that should not be based solely upon advertisements.
Any listing of an attorney does not constitute a recommendation of the
attorney. Before hiring any attorney, you should investigate the
attorney's reputation and qualifications.
Links. This web site contains links to other resources on the
Internet. Those links are provided as citations and aids to help you
identify and locate other Internet resources that may be of interest,
and are not intended to state or imply that we sponsor or are affiliated
or associated with the persons or entities who created such site, nor
are the links intended to state or imply that we are legally authorized
to use any trade name, registered trademark, logo, legal or official
seal, or copyrighted symbol that may be reflected in the links.
E-mail. Viewing this Web site , or transmitting an
e-mail message through this Web site, does not create an attorney-client
relationship. Sending e-mail to an attorney mentioned in this site does
NOT create an attorney-client relationship between you and the attorney.
Unless you are already a client of the attorney, your e-mail may NOT be
protected by the attorney-client privilege. Moreover, unless it is
encrypted, e-mail can be intercepted by persons other than the
recipient. Deadlines are extremely important in most legal matters. You
may lose important legal rights if you do not hire an attorney
immediately to advise you. Many people do not check their e-mail daily,
and some attorneys do not respond to unsolicited e-mail from non-clients.
If you are in need of legal assistance and you are not low-income, please contact your local lawyer referral service or call the State Bar of Texas Lawyer Referral Information Service, Mon.-Fri. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1-800-252-9690 or 1-877-9TEXBAR.
The Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to open some documents on this site. (If you have questions about screen reader ability to access PDFs, please visit the Adobe Accessibility Page or the Adobe Acessibility Blog for more information.)