Tom Carnes is a lawyer serving the Texas Hill Country from his office just outside Fredericksburg, Texas. Tom's practice is devoted to dispute resolution -- as both an advocate representing businesses and individuals, a collaborative family lawyer in the area of collaborative divorce, and as a neutral third-party mediator.
This dispute resolution practice is focused on two primary types of disputes: (1) disputes between businesses or between businesses and their various employee, customer, and regulatory constituencies, and (2) disputes between individuals within familial relationships. His family practice includes both traditional family law disputes resolved through the court system and the alternative practice of collaborative divorce.
This dispute resolution practice is focused on two primary types of disputes: (1) disputes between businesses or between businesses and their various employee, customer, and regulatory constituencies, and (2) disputes between individuals within familial relationships. His family practice includes both traditional family law disputes resolved through the court system and the alternative practice of collaborative divorce.
Services
Tom Carnes has practiced business litigation since 1992. Tom's business litigation is broad, and encompasses everything from breach of contract cases, to real estate and construction disputes, to regulatory matters, to debtor-creditor matters, to deceptive trade practices and consumer protection, to post-employment disputes and "business divorces."
Tom Carnes has included family law as a significant part of his practice since he started his own firm in 2002. At any given time, family law encompasses fifty percent of his practice or more. Family law is a broad practice area.
It includes everything from divorce, whether approached traditionally, through the courts, or through the vehicle of collaborative divorce, to parentage cases involving unmarried parents, to the enforcement and modification of prior orders.Tom's family law practice includes each of these practice areas and more.
It includes everything from divorce, whether approached traditionally, through the courts, or through the vehicle of collaborative divorce, to parentage cases involving unmarried parents, to the enforcement and modification of prior orders.Tom's family law practice includes each of these practice areas and more.
Collaborative Divorce is a mechanism or path to divorce (or, more generally, the resolution of any family law matter) that minimizes the use of the court system and maximizes the parties' control over resolution through the use of a team that includes the parties and specially trained collaborative lawyers and may also include financial and mental health professionals.
