Fort Worth Child Custody Lawyer
Few things matter more than your time with your children. Daniell Law Group represents parents through custody cases across Fort Worth and Tarrant County, with honest counsel, steady communication, and a litigator who handles your case from the first call to the final order.
- Free, confidential consultation
- You work directly with Emily
- A litigator from intake to trial
Your role as a parent is worth protecting.
Custody disputes reach the part of life that matters most: your relationship with your children and the time you have with them. Whether you are setting up an arrangement for the first time, responding to the other parent, or trying to change an order that no longer fits, the stakes feel personal because they are.
Texas calls custody conservatorship, and the law decides these cases on one standard above all others: the best interest of the child. What that means for your family depends on your circumstances, your role as a parent, and the stability you can provide. You should not have to read the order, or the law behind it, on your own.
At Daniell Law Group, you talk directly with Emily Daniell, a litigator who handles your case from the first conversation through the final order. She prepares every matter carefully, explains your options in plain language, and tells you honestly where you stand.
We represent parents across Fort Worth and the wider DFW Metroplex. Custody is often decided as part of a divorce, and our divorce practice and Fort Worth divorce attorney pages cover that path in detail. Custody is one part of our full family law and probate practice.
Custody matters we handle
Custody is rarely settled once and left alone. Children grow, parents move, and circumstances change. We handle custody at every stage.
Emily Daniell
When you hire Daniell Law Group, you work with Emily Daniell herself. Not an intake team, not a rotating associate. She handles your case from the first consultation through the final decree, so you always know who is in your corner.
Emily is a litigator who prepares every case as if it will be tried, and her own experience with divorce and co-parenting shapes how she meets clients during a hard chapter. She gives you honest answers and steady communication when you need them most.
- EducationJ.D., Texas Wesleyan School of Law
- LicensedState Bar of Texas, since 2009
- FocusFamily law & probate litigation
How child custody works in Texas
Texas custody law has its own language and its own framework. Understanding the pieces makes the road ahead far less daunting.
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Conservatorship, not custody
Texas law uses the term conservatorship for what most people call custody. It covers who makes decisions for the child and who the child lives with. Getting the terminology right helps you understand your own order.
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The best interest standard
Every custody decision turns on the best interest of the child. Courts weigh each parent's involvement, the child's needs, stability, safety, and the ability of each parent to provide a steady home.
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Decision-making rights
Texas favors both parents staying involved through joint managing conservatorship, which divides decision-making over education, health, and welfare. Sole managing conservatorship is reserved for cases where one parent should hold those rights alone.
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Possession and access
This is the schedule, when each parent has the child. Many orders follow a Standard Possession Order, but the schedule can be tailored to your family, your work, and the distance between homes.
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The parenting plan
The order sets out the schedule, decision-making, holidays, exchanges, and often a geographic restriction on where the child can live. A clear plan prevents conflict before it starts.
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Changing the order later
A custody order is not necessarily permanent. When circumstances change in a material and substantial way, the order can be modified so it keeps serving your child as life moves forward.
What a Texas custody order decides
A custody order settles far more than where a child sleeps. These are the issues we help you resolve.
Trusted in the
hardest chapters.
Family law and probate work asks for trust before it earns it. The clients below extended that trust and chose to share what came after.
I cannot recommend Emily highly enough for anyone in need of family law representation in the DFW area. Emily guided me through a challenging custody case in Tarrant County with an exceptional level of professionalism and dedication.
Emily made a difficult situation easier to navigate. The entire staff were both professionally and personally attentive to my needs. Always gave weekly updates and guided me step by step on what I needed to do. I would highly recommend their services.
Emily did a wonderful job helping me with the probate process. Fantastic at communicating, especially with the weekly updates, great reliability, and delivered quick results. I would absolutely use her again in the future.
They handled a probate matter for me that just wrapped up. Emily was knowledgeable, kind and handled things quickly and efficiently. This firm is fantastic and doesn’t leave you feeling like you wasted your time or money.
I cannot recommend Emily highly enough for anyone in need of family law representation in the DFW area. Emily guided me through a challenging custody case in Tarrant County with an exceptional level of professionalism and dedication.
Child custody questions, answered
Texas courts decide custody, legally called conservatorship, based on the best interest of the child. Judges look at each parent's involvement, the child's needs, stability, safety, and each parent's ability to provide a steady home. In most cases both parents stay involved, but the details of decision-making and time depend on the family.
A conversation,
in confidence.
Every consultation is private and obligation-free. Tell us what is happening, and we will tell you, honestly, how we can help.