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Verner & Brumley, P.C., announces that Jimmy Verner has created an iPhone application that calculates pretrial and posttrial litigation deadlines for Texas state courts.

Deadlines calculates pretrial and posttrial litigation deadlines for civil cases in Texas state courts. The application takes account of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays.

When a pretrial deadline falls on a Saturday. Sunday or legal holiday, the deadline is calculated as the next preceding day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

When a posttrial deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the deadline is calculated as the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday.

Deadlines is available from the iTunes store. For more information, visit VernerLegal.

Deadlines includes the following national and state holidays. See Tex. Gov't Code § 662.003.

• January 1 (New Year's Day)
• January 19 (Confederate Heroes Day)
• Third Monday in January (MLK Day)
• Third Monday in February (President's Day)
• March 2 (Texas Independence Day)
• April 21 (San Jacinto Day)
• Last Monday in May (Memorial Day)
• June 19 (Emancipation Day in Texas)
• July 4 (Independence Day)
• August 27 (Lyndon Baines Johnson Day)
• First Monday in September (Labor Day)
• November 11 (Veteran's Day)
• Fourth Thursday in November (Thanksgiving Day)
• The Friday after Thanksgiving Day
• December 24 (Christmas Eve)
• December 25 (Christmas Day)
• December 26 (day after Christmas)

Texas Lawyer's "Tex Parte Blog" posted a nice blurb about our iPhone app that calculates Texas guideline child support:

Texas child support? There's an app for that.

Jimmy Verner Jr. (pictured), a shareholder in Dallas' Verner & Brumley, has begun marketing a Texas child support calculator application for an iPhone.  "I'm kind of a techy person. I developed a formula for figuring out child support payments online, and someone in my office said, 'You ought to turn it into an iPhone application,' " recalls Verner. So, with the help of a freelance software developer and about a month's worth of effort, he did just that. His application has been on sale on iTunes online since July 23. So far, Verner says, 20 customers have bought it, paying $7.99 each -- 70 percent of which Verner pockets, with 30 percent going to iPhone's famous maker Apple Computer Inc. Verner says he is considering developing similar iPhone applications for New York and California child support calculations, but those states have more complicated formulas, so it's taking more time. In the next two weeks, he plans to begin marketing an iPhone application to calculate litigation deadlines, factoring in weekends and holidays. Oh, by the way, Verner didn't even own an iPhone until he needed to test his idea. 
-- Miriam Rozen

Verner & Brumley, P.C., announces that Jimmy Verner has created an iPhone application that calculates Texas guideline child support.

With only five inputs, anyone - whether an attorney or a person in the middle of a divorce or modification suit - can calculate the exact amount of Texas guideline child support that must be paid. The inputs are:

• whether the person who will pay child support is self-employed
• that person's gross annual income
• how many children are before the court
• the amount of annual health insurance premium for the children
• how many children from prior relationships the person already is ordered to support.

With these five inputs, the Texas Child Support Calculator determines the exact amount of child support that must be paid. 

Support for the calculator - should any be needed - is available at no charge through VernerLegal, a website hosted by Mr. Verner.

The Texas Child Support Calculator can be purchased from the iTunes Store.

Collaborative Law:  Two Day Basic Training

by Janet P. Brumley

About the Program:  This two day basic training will cover interest based negotiation, a comparison and contrast of collaborative practice with litigation and mediation, an introduction to the Protocols of Practice for collaborative professionals and techniques for effective practice.  It is open to lawyers, mental health professionals and financial professionals, but is geared primarily toward lawyers.

Dates:  April 23 & 24     May 21 & 22     June 25 & 26

(Begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. each day)

Location: 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd., Penthouse Suite, Dallas, Texas 75219

Cost:  $500.00 per person - ** Limited to 10 Enrollees for maximum interaction (Cost must be paid upon reservation and is refundable if canceled at least seven days prior to seminar)

About the Trainer:  Janet P. Brumley is the author of Divorce Without Disaster; is board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization; has practiced law for 25+  years in Dallas County, Texas; is a frequent presenter on collaborative law at professional continuing education seminars; is a member of the committee that drafted Texas Collaborative Law Protocols of Practice for Lawyers; has served as chairperson of Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Family Lawyers; was selected as a Texas Super Lawyer and Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas; has been selected by her peers to be included in The Best Lawyers of America 2007; has conducted collaborative law training in Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth; attended Harvard Law School Advanced Negotiation Workshop; is a member of International Alliance of Collaborative Professionals, Texas Collaborative Law Institute, Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Lawyers and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Please contact Becky Borders to enroll or for further information. 214.526.5234 or bborders@vernerbrumley.com 

Collaborative Law:  Two Day Basic Training

by Janet P. Brumley

About the Program:  This two day basic training will cover interest based negotiation, a comparison and contrast of collaborative practice with litigation and mediation, an introduction to the Protocols of Practice for collaborative professionals and techniques for effective practice.  It is open to lawyers, mental health professionals and financial professionals, but is geared primarily toward lawyers.

Dates:  March 19 & 20, 2009 (Begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. each day)

Location: 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd., Penthouse Suite, Dallas, Texas 75219

Cost:  $500.00 per person - ** Limited to 10 Enrollees for maximum interaction (Cost must be paid upon reservation and is refundable if canceled at least seven days prior to seminar)

About the Trainer:  Janet P. Brumley is the author of Divorce Without Disaster; is board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization; has practiced law for 25+  years in Dallas County, Texas; is a frequent presenter on collaborative law at professional continuing education seminars; is a member of the committee that drafted Texas Collaborative Law Protocols of Practice for Lawyers; has served as chairperson of Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Family Lawyers; was selected as a Texas Super Lawyer and Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas; has been selected by her peers to be included in The Best Lawyers of America 2007; has conducted collaborative law training in Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth; attended Harvard Law School Advanced Negotiation Workshop; is a member of International Alliance of Collaborative Professionals, Texas Collaborative Law Institute, Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Lawyers and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Please contact Becky Borders to enroll or for further information. 214.526.5234 or bborders@vernerbrumley.com 

Last training for 2007:

Collaborative Law:  Two Day Basic Training

by Janet P. Brumley

About the Program:  This two day basic training will cover interest based negotiation, a comparison and contrast of collaborative practice with litigation and mediation, an introduction to the Protocols of Practice for collaborative professionals and techniques for effective practice.  It is open to lawyers, mental health professionals and financial professionals, but is geared primarily toward lawyers.

Dates:  October 18 & 19, 2007 (Begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. each day)

Location: 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd., Penthouse Suite, Dallas, Texas 75219

Cost:  $500.00 per person - ** Limited to 10 Enrollees for maximum interaction (Cost must be paid upon reservation and is refundable if canceled at least seven days prior to seminar)

About the Trainer:  Janet P. Brumley is the author of Divorce Without Disaster; is board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization; has practiced law for 25+  years in Dallas County, Texas; is a frequent presenter on collaborative law at professional continuing education seminars; is a member of the committee that drafted Texas Collaborative Law Protocols of Practice for Lawyers; has served as chairperson of Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Family Lawyers; was selected as a Texas Super Lawyer and Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas; has been selected by her peers to be included in The Best Lawyers of America 2007; has conducted collaborative law training in Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth; attended Harvard Law School Advanced Negotiation Workshop; is a member of International Alliance of Collaborative Professionals, Texas Collaborative Law Institute, Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Lawyers and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Please contact Becky Borders to enroll or for further information. 214.526.5234 or bborders@vernerbrumley.com

Only two trainings left for 2007!!

Collaborative Law:  Two Day Basic Training

by Janet P. Brumley

About the Program:  This two day basic training will cover  interest based negotiation, a comparison and contrast of collaborative practice with litigation and mediation, an introduction to the  Protocols of Practice for collaborative professionals and techniques for effective practice.  It is open to lawyers, mental health professionals and financial professionals, but is geared primarily towards lawyers.

Dates:

• September 20th and 21st, 2007 (Begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. each day)
• October 25th and 26th, 2007 (Begins promptly at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. each day)
  

Location: 3131 Turtle Creek Blvd., Penthouse Suite, Dallas, Texas 75219

Cost:  $500.00 per person - ** Limited to 10 Enrollees for maximum interaction (Cost must be paid upon reservation and is refundable if canceled at least seven days prior to seminar)

About the Trainer:  Janet P. Brumley is the author of Divorce Without Disaster; is board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization; has practiced law for 25+  years in Dallas County, Texas; is a frequent presenter on collaborative law at professional continuing education seminars; is a member of the committee that drafted Texas Collaborative Law Protocols of Practice for Lawyers; has served as chairperson of Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Family Lawyers; was selected as a Texas Super Lawyer and Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas; has been selected by her peers to be included in The Best Lawyers of America 2007; has conducted collaborative law training in Dallas, Houston and Fort Worth; attended Harvard Law School Advanced Negotiation Workshop; and is a member International Alliance of Collaborative Professionals, Texas Collaborative Law Institute, Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Lawyers and is a member of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

Please contact Becky Borders to enroll or for further information. 214.526.5234 or bborders@vernerbrumley.com

"We think the only way that we can break the fidelity bond that we have with our spouse is by committing adultery," says Janet Brumley, family law attorney at Verner & Brumley in Dallas. "We can break it a thousand different ways, and one of those ways is by acting single in the financial arena, by creating debt, by spending money as though we have no one else to think about but ourselves."

One spouse's debt troubles can affect the other.

Credit reports are compiled on individuals, not couples, and if a couple shares a joint credit account, they share equal responsibility for ensuring that payments are made.

"Debt really has an impact," Ms. Brumley says. "Debt is shackles, and you are also shackling your spouse."

Read the full story by The Dallas Morning News