In 2003, at the age of 33, Chris was one of the youngest attorneys selected for inclusion in Texas Super Lawyers, and Chris has been listed again and again every year since. He is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and he has written articles and lectured across the state on family law topics including child support, temporary issues arising in divorce, the use of mental health professionals in custody disputes, the use and methodologies of business valuation, as well as the use of discovery in litigation and creative methods of dispute resolution.

After growing up in Dallas and vowing never to attend Southern Methodist University, Chris earned both his undergraduate and law school degrees from SMU. He also taught at SMU’s Dedman School of Law in the intensive writing program called “Lawyering.”

A child of divorce himself, Chris strives to develop long-term solutions for families experiencing one of the worst life experiences that divorce can cause.

In 2016, Chris published A Christian Divorce, a book which reflects on his personal observations that the most acrimonious and the most uncommonly bitter litigation experiences he has encountered during his 25+ year family law career have been those in which either one or both of the parties professed to be Christians. Chris explains the genesis for his writing project:

“In a majority of circumstances, divorce outcomes are mostly predictable . . . yet strikingly few people put enough meaningful thought into the long-term effects on every individual affected by the wake of divorce — including children. A Christian Divorce is an attempt to help individuals approach divorce in a more intentional way . . . if divorce is truly inevitable. I wrote A Christian Divorce for anyone who finds themselves on the brink of divorce, in the midst of divorce, or in the wake of divorce’s aftermath . . . and for those individuals who possess influence in the lives of anyone affected by divorce.”

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