Divorce and Family Law Attorneys in Bee Cave — Serving Lakeway, Westlake and Lake Travis

Divorce and family law for Lakeway, Westlake and Lake Travis

Lackey Law Firm’s Austin office is at the Hill Country Galleria in Bee Cave — 12600 Hill Country Blvd, Suite R-275 — a short drive from Lakeway along RR 620 and from Westlake along Bee Caves Road. From here, our Austin divorce lawyers represent Lake Travis-area professionals, business owners and parents in divorce, child custody and complex property cases filed in the Travis County district courts. If you live in Lakeway, Bee Cave, West Lake Hills, Rollingwood, Barton Creek, Steiner Ranch, Spicewood or Lago Vista, this is the office that handles your case, and you can meet us here rather than downtown. Call 512-501-1618 or use the form on this page to schedule a confidential consultation.

Why we opened an office in Bee Cave

“We opened the Bee Cave office because so many of the families we were already representing lived in Lakeway, Westlake and along Lake Travis — business owners, physicians and professionals who wanted to meet near home, on their schedule, rather than downtown. The questions they bring us are the same ones every week: how a business is valued, what happens to stock that hasn’t vested, how a custody schedule works around two demanding careers. This office exists to answer them close to where our clients live.”

— Alicia Lackey, J.D., Managing Partner

Complex property division for Lake Travis families

Many of the divorces we handle from this office involve assets well beyond a house and a savings account: equity in private companies, stock options and restricted stock units, professional practices, and lakefront or investment real estate in Travis and Hays counties. How those assets are characterized and valued decides the outcome, and the work — business valuation, tracing separate property, dividing retirement accounts by QDRO — is explained in detail on our high-asset divorce page. The short version: Texas divides community property in a “just and right” manner, not automatically 50/50, and separate property is protected only if it can be proven.

Where Lake Travis divorce and custody cases are filed

Residents of Lakeway, Bee Cave, Westlake, Steiner Ranch and most of the Lake Travis area file in Travis County, where the district courts hear every divorce and child custody case in the county on a central docket under the Travis County Standing Order, which takes effect the day a case is filed. Families in Dripping Springs and parts of western Hays County file in Hays County, where the courts sit in San Marcos and the procedures differ. One spouse must have lived in Texas for six months and in the county for 90 days before filing (Texas Family Code §6.301). We handle cases in both counties from this office and will tell you at the first meeting which court your case belongs in and what that means for the timeline.

Custody, schools and geographic restrictions

Parents in Eanes ISD and Lake Travis ISD often ask whether a divorce will force a move or a change of schools. Most Travis County custody orders include a geographic restriction that keeps the child’s primary residence within Travis County and the counties that touch it, which is designed to keep both parents within reach of the child’s school and activities. Possession schedules, holiday arrangements and child support are set under the Texas Family Code, but how they are negotiated depends on the facts of your family. For couples who want to keep their finances and their children’s lives out of a courtroom, mediation, collaborative divorce and well-drafted prenuptial agreements are the tools we reach for first.