Sudden tragedy in a high-conflict family matter is the nightmare scenario for both attorneys and judges when criminal law and family law interact in Texas.

In 2001, for example, a Dallas man shot and killed his two little girls while their mother listened on the telephone. It was an evil act of revenge against his ex-wife carried out during scheduled custody with his children. John Battaglia is now in a well-deserved cell on death row for this horrific crime.

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