Predicting anything is treacherous, but especially now. I wish Texas family lawyers could, after a very bumpy year in 2020, congratulate ourselves that we will soon be looking at a much easier year in 2021. But I don’t think we can draw a line under the effects of COVID-19 and close the book quite yet. It is true that we have managed to help our clients, and the public at large, navigate a landscape full of ruts and pits as we tried to figure out what to do about divorced or separated parents sharing custody who were confronting unprecedented grounds for dispute.

Many of our clients also had to try to modify child support when jobs vanished and businesses failed. Evaluating the worth of assets during a pandemic has been exceptionally difficult. Some of the businesses actually improved because of COVID while others suffered devastating losses. But we have been able to help our clients find creative ways to deal with a summer spike in cases, the beginning of the fall semester of school and even getting through the holidays. What new challenges remain?

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