Texas Family Law Attorney Says Letting Go of Yesterday Will Help You Today

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Divorce is the legal means by which a marriage ends. It is a critical step to take if you need to separate your life from the life of the person that you married. The divorce process and the divorce decree that is the result of that process answer some questions about what your life and the life of your former spouse will look like as each of you moves forward. You and your spouse will make decisions during your divorce about how your assets and debts will be divided, how time with your children will be divided, and whether any money will flow from one of you to the other on an ongoing basis, there are many things that your divorce case and your divorce decree won’t resolve. These issues must be addressed in different ways so that you can truly move forward with your life.

The feelings that you have towards your former spouse and the way that you interact with them during and after your divorce play a significant role in shaping your life both during and after your divorce. A divorce is always the beginning of a changed life, but you are primarily responsible for the direction that that changed life takes. Some divorced and divorcing individuals choose to seek healing of the hurts that they experienced during their marriage and the breakdown of their marriage. Some forgive their former spouse for all of the things that they feel were wrong in their marriage and resolve to let the past remain in the past as they develop a new way of interacting with their former spouse that is not bitter or angry. Others choose to hold tightly onto the pain that they feel their former spouse caused them, and to interact with their former spouse in an angry, bitter, and often confrontational manner. As they move forward into their life without their former spouse by their side, they continue to focus on how they were wronged, sometimes even long after the marriage has ended.

If you are divorcing or are divorced, I would like to encourage you to let your marriage stay in the past where it belongs. You do not have to carry the pain and anger forward into today, tomorrow, or next week. You can move forward with your divorce proceedings and your post-divorce life with the wisdom you gained along the way and the inspiration that comes from having a clean slate. The problems that you had during your marriage do not have to follow you through the rest of your life and steal your joy. It’s not always easy to heal the hurts of a marriage that ended in divorce, and anger and bitterness can be slow to leave the scene. However, you do not have to heal or forgive on your own. Many people can help you with the work of healing and forgiveness. Counselors, clergy, friends, and family are all potentially helpful resources who can help you set down your suitcases and unpack the emotional baggage of your marriage and divorce so that you can walk forward into the future with nothing holding you back from living in your full potential.

If you would like to talk with an attorney about divorce in Texas, call Texas Family Law Attorney Alex Tyra with your Texas divorce questions today, at (903) 753-7499.

 

 

 

Texas Texas Criminal Defense Attorney Reports District Attorney Has Dropped All Remaining Twin Peaks Cases

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The shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in 2015 claimed the lives of nine people and injured twenty others. Four years later, closure has not yet come for those who were injured and for the families of those who died in the shootout. It looks like closure or justice may not ever come for those people, at least not through the Texas legal system.

Earlier this month, the McLennan County District Attorney announced that the twenty-four cases that remained pending in connection with the shootout would be dropped. This is a surprising turn of events, considering that immediately following the shooting, one hundred and seventy-seven people were arrested in connection with the shootout, charged with participating in organized crime and held on million dollar bonds. Of those individuals who were arrested and charged, only one case ever proceeded to trial, and the trial ended with the declaration of a mistrial.

The District Attorney stated that the decision to drop the cases was made based on the evidence and the facts, along with the laws of the State of Texas and the interest of justice. The overall cost of the Twin Peaks incident has surpassed a billion dollars and continues to increase. The District Attorney’s decision to drop the cases seems to be connected to the strength of the evidence, which was exposed as lacking.

Evidentiary challenges are crucial to many successful criminal defenses, and this high-profile case with its large number of defendants is no exception. The defense attorneys for all of the defendants connected with the Twin Peaks shootout have worked hard over the past four years to challenge the police procedures followed during the incident and the arrest and processing of all of the defendants as well as the handling of the evidence connected with their cases. Lack of probable cause was cited in many challenges to the charges made against the defendants, along with allegations of numerous violations of the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure. Challenges to excessive bond round out the list of strategies employed by defense attorneys on behalf of their clients.

It was reported that the defendants in the Twin Peaks cases have benefited from the vigorous efforts of their defense counsel. That is something good that has come from the horrific event at Twin Peaks and the state’s response to it, which many feel was inappropriate. Unfortunately, a great deal of harm was caused not just in terms of injury and death, but in the fact that it has taken four years for some of the defendants to have a resolution of their cases. Some of the defendants have been under the shadow of the ongoing criminal cases for too long, suffering from the physical and emotional consequences that come when one is arrested and charged with a crime. With the dismissal of the last twenty-four cases, the remainder of the Twin Peaks defendants will finally be able to begin moving forward again.

If you are charged with a crime in Texas, contact Texas Criminal Defense Attorney Alex Tyra right away. Criminal charges can have a far-reaching effect on your life. It is critical that you act now because your freedom and your rights are at stake. Please call our office to talk with us today, at (903) 753-7499, or fill out a contact form on our website.