Practice Areas — Ace Law

Everything we handle

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Every matter the firm takes, down to the specific one you came here for.

Personal Injury

People hurt by someone else's negligence: medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering.

These cases are decided by evidence that ages badly: camera footage that gets overwritten, vehicles that get repaired, witnesses who move. The firm takes the claim off you from the first call so you can treat, and prepares it as though it will be tried — which is precisely why most of them settle properly instead.

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AccidentsEvery kind of collision — auto, truck, motorcycle, pedestrian and construction.
- Auto accidentsCrashes caused by negligent, distracted or impaired drivers, or by unsafe road conditions.
- Construction accidentsWorkers injured by unsafe conditions, defective equipment or another contractor's negligence.
- Motorcycle accidentsRiders hurt by a driver who turned across them, or never looked at all.
- Pedestrian accidentsPeople struck while walking: crosswalks, parking lots and neighbourhood streets.
- Commercial truck accidentsTrucking companies must follow strict federal safety rules. When they fail, we take it up.
Premises liabilityProperty owners who knew about a danger and left it there.
- Slip and fallFalls in a store, a parking garage, an apartment complex or a private home.
Product liabilityDefective or dangerous products, and the manufacturers and sellers behind them.
Workplace accidentsOn-the-job injuries, including against employers who carry no workers' compensation.
Wrongful deathClaims by a surviving spouse, children or parents, and the estate's own survival claim.

Criminal Defense

Charges from misdemeanors to federal offences, in state and federal court.

The disposition matters more than the sentence. A record follows a person into work, housing and immigration long after any fine is paid, so the goal is the outcome that can later be expunged or sealed. Every case starts with the State's own file — the video, the lab material, the reports — rather than the summary offered at the first setting.

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Domestic violence chargesAssault within a family, household or dating relationship, and protective orders.
Drug offencesPossession, delivery and trafficking, usually decided by how the police found it.
DWI defenceDriving while intoxicated — plus the separate licence case that starts the same night.
Environmental crimesTCEQ and EPA enforcement: dumping, discharge and permit violations.
Evading arrest or detentionOn foot it is a misdemeanor. In a vehicle, Texas makes it a felony.
Federal crimesInvestigations and indictments in federal court, where the guidelines drive the outcome.
HomicideMurder, manslaughter and negligent homicide, including self-defence cases.
Indecency with a childCases built on forensic interviews and outcry testimony rather than physical evidence.
Juvenile mattersCases against minors in juvenile court, including transfer to adult court.
Sex crimesAllegations that carry registration, and consequences that begin before any verdict.
Tax evasionIRS criminal investigations, unfiled returns and payroll tax matters.
TheftShoplifting through felony theft and embezzlement, graded by the value alleged.
Vehicular manslaughterFatal collisions charged as manslaughter or intoxication manslaughter.
Weapons chargesUnlawful carry, prohibited weapons, felon in possession and deadly weapon findings.
White collar crimesFraud, embezzlement and money laundering — documentary cases about intent.

Business & Civil Litigation

Entrepreneurs, companies and individuals — building it properly, and the disputes that follow.

Almost every expensive dispute we see began as a cheap document nobody reviewed. The firm drafts the agreements that prevent them — and litigates the ones that were never written, on either side of the table. Where a claim is not worth what it costs to bring, we say so before you spend anything.

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Business formationForming the entity, and the documents that decide what happens when owners disagree.
- Consulting agreementsScope, payment, and who ends up owning the work that was produced.
- Franchise agreementsReading the disclosure document before a commitment that runs about a decade.
- Operating agreementsThe company agreement that actually governs a Texas LLC.
- Partnership agreementsContributions, control, profits, and how a partner joins or leaves.
ConstructionPayment, defects and delay, up and down the contract chain.
- Construction breach of contractNon-payment, defective work, delay and disputes over change orders.
- Construction fraudMisappropriated draws, misrepresentation, and Texas construction trust funds.
Contracts: formation, review and disputesDrafting, reviewing and litigating contracts, to prevent costly misunderstandings.
Intellectual propertyTrademarks, copyright and trade secrets — including the employee who left with the list.
- Copyright protectionRegistration, licensing, takedowns and infringement claims.
- TrademarksSearches, applications, oppositions and enforcement of a brand.
Mechanic's liens and construction claimsPerfecting, enforcing and removing liens, plus payment bond claims.
Property disputesBoundaries, easements, adverse possession, title defects and partitions.

Family Law

Divorce, children, property, and the agreements made before and after a marriage.

These cases decide who your children live with and what you walk away with. They are also the ones people most often try to handle alone, on the assumption that an agreement between two reasonable adults holds without an order behind it. Most resolve in mediation; the ones that do not are tried.

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AdoptionStepparent, relative and agency adoptions, from termination to the final hearing.
AnnulmentThe narrow grounds on which a Texas marriage is undone rather than dissolved.
Custody agreementsConservatorship, possession schedules, and changing an order that no longer works.
- Child supportGuideline calculations, medical support, enforcement and modification.
- ConservatorshipWhich parent holds which rights, and who decides what for the children.
- Termination of parental rightsThe most serious order a family court can sign — sought or defended.
DivorceContested and uncontested divorce, from the petition to the final decree.
Division of propertyCommunity and separate property, tracing, businesses and retirement accounts.
Name changeAdult and child name changes, and the records to update afterwards.
Premarital and marital agreementsAgreements before and during a marriage that decide what stays separate.
Spousal maintenanceCourt-ordered maintenance and contractual alimony, which Texas limits sharply.

Estate Planning & Probate

The documents that decide who can act for you, and the process after a death.

Most of what an estate plan does happens while you are alive: it decides who can act for you, and how fast. The rest is making probate cheap and short for the people you leave behind — which in Texas is mostly a matter of getting a few paragraphs right while there is still time.

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Estate planningA plan that protects your assets and makes sure your wishes are honoured.
- Directive to physiciansThe living will: your instructions for care at the end of life.
- Financial and medical power of attorneyWho acts for you on money and on medical care if you cannot act for yourself.
- Lady Bird deedsPassing a house outside probate while keeping complete control of it.
- Last will and testamentWho inherits, who administers, and the language that keeps probate inexpensive.
ProbateProving a will, appointing an executor, and transferring what someone owned.
- Administration disputesAccountings, removal of an executor, and breach of fiduciary duty.
- Heirship determinationsEstablishing who the legal heirs are when there is no will.
- Independent and dependent administrationThe single choice that decides what an estate costs to administer.
- Probate of a willThe application, the hearing, letters testamentary and the notices that follow.
- Small estate affidavitsThe short route for modest estates that meet every statutory requirement.
- Will contestsChallenging or defending a will on capacity, undue influence or execution.

Five practice areas. One standard.

Personal Injury

Criminal Defense

Business & Civil Litigation

Family Law

Estate Planning & Probate

The full index.

Personal Injury

Criminal Defense

Business & Civil Litigation

Family Law

Estate Planning & Probate

Legal problems rarely arrive one at a time.

A crash becomes three cases

A divorce touches the estate

A business dispute follows you home

Tell us what happened. We will tell you which department handles it.