Bringing you a special gift for Valentine's Day! Our listeners get a bonus episode featuring our Managing Partner, Jake Gilbreath and CEO, Sarah Gilbreath. Tune in as they discuss home life, work life, and balancing everything in-between. 

Divorce is not easy, and disputes over assets can feel chaotic. Sometimes, it can feel like you are losing everything. In this episode, Brian and Jake interview full-service real estate broker, Realtor®, and Certified Luxury Home Specialist, Heather Hudson to discuss considerations for dividing real estate in divorce. Heather speaks about her personal experience and provides helpful tips to homeowners going through separation/divorce.

The most common complaint we hear from clients who’ve worked with other family law firms is surrounding communication. Communication and transparency are incredibly important as someone navigates through legal matters, and it’s the lawyer's responsibility to make sure the client stays informed throughout the duration of their case. At Walters Gilbreath, PLLC, we over-communicate. Find out more about our approach to delivering an unparalleled client experience in this episode.

Jake Gilbreath is one of the founding and managing partners at Walters Gilbreath, PLLC. Clients and listeners consistently have questions after reading Jake’s bio on our website, so today we're taking a deep dive into Jake's personal and professional life, including Jake’s personal experience with divorce.

It’s the official relaunch of our new and improved family law podcast! Our listeners can expect more guest interviews, listener-inspired discussions, and series on the most interesting/most requested topics.

In today’s episode, we’re taking a deep dive into one of the founding and managing partners, Brian Walters, personal and professional life, including Brian’s personal experience with divorce. Clients and listeners consistently have questions after reading Brian’s bio on our website. So today we are pulling back the curtain so you can learn just who Brian Walters is.

In this episode, Ross interviews three excellent lawyers from various states and talks about managing a law firm during a pandemic. They shared concrete examples of how it is in their workspace and their efforts to extend as much help as possible to both their employees and clients.

They also covered:

• A more challenging market
• Bringing in an in-house health care practitioner
• Importance of mental health
• Building new office culture
• Finding something better to offer people
• Having smaller yet more dynamic meetings
• Talking about families, travels, and pets
• An inventory of well-being
• The challenge of training new people

During these trying times, knowing that you're not alone in the struggle makes a huge difference in the quality of life of people. Addressing client pain points became more evident necessary with the new normal.

In this episode, Jake is with Veronica, a high-conflict divorce coach, and they talk about preparing for divorce in a moral, emotional, and mental approach. She tells us how most moms and dads who go through a separation with a high-conflict individual could feel very isolated and even ostracized. Having someone to talk to and process their emotions and thoughts is what Veronica does.

They also covered:

• The feeling of isolation
• Having someone to call for 24/7
• The effect of divorce on families
• Narcissistic abuse
• The stressful cycle of dealing with legal validations
• False accusations and justifying abuse
• Breeding apprehension and fear
• Alienation and expert testimony

Veronica reminds us about the importance of being divorce clients, not only legally but emotionally as well.

In this episode, Billie is a divorce lawyer based in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, and they talk about managing interstate divorce. They also exchanged insights regarding the various jurisdictions on child support, spousal maintenance, alimonies, and properties.

They also covered:

• Who talks to who first?
• Jurisdiction over the kids between States
• Dividing assets between parties
• The concept of community property
• Alimonies in Arizona vs. in Texas
• What is a "good amount" of properties/assets split and maintenance 
• Child support and spousal maintenance
• Divorce from an economic standpoint
• Access to phones and relevant messages
• Adultery as a ground for divorce

Divorce can carry a lot of diverse provisions, depending on the state where you filed the motion. That's why every divorce should be analyzed from a case-to-case basis and knowing how and where to maximize the claims is crucial to the overall outcome of the separation for each individual involved.

In this episode, we are with special guest, Dr. Alissa Sherry, joining the discussion on Forensic Psychology in Divorce. Listen in on the differences in evaluations and how they work in court.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary of our podcast, Jake & Brian sat down with Jim Piper, Of Counsel at Walters Gilbreath, to discuss how family law has changed since they started practicing.