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David Todd
Attorney at Law
The Todd Law Firm, PLLC
812 San Antonio Street, Suite 401
Austin, Texas 78701

Divorce

• ABA’s Lawlink: The Legal Research Jumpstation: This site provides links to legal research and information resources.
• American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers: This site provides legal links, an online divorce manual, and a variety of articles related to marriage and divorce.
• American Bar Association—Commission on Domestic Violence:
  This site features information on national organizations that aid victims of domestic violence, links to legal resources
  and other sites related to domestic violence, and training materials for attorneys.
• Bank Rates: This site provides information, rates, news, and calculators for mortgages, auto loans, CDs, credit cards, and
  other topics.
• Credit Reports: These sites provide access to consumer-credit reports.
• Homes—Relocation: This site provides finder services, cost-of-living and moving calculators, and school and crime reports for various
  cities.
• Internal Revenue Service—Forms & Publications: This site indexes Internal Revenue Service forms and publications.
• Medication: This site provides a searchable database of U.S. prescription products.
• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation: This site provides information on the federal corporation that ensures payment of pension benefits to participants
  in and beneficiaries of plans covered by the PBGC. The site contains plan-administration publications and
  features the “Qualified Domestic Relations Orders & PBGC” booklet, which provides general information on
  QDROs submitted to PBGC after PBGC trustees a plan. The site also provides legal information, including laws
  and regulations, opinion letters, and information-quality guidelines.
• Texas Council on Family Violence:

  This site provides information on laws and issues relevant to the prevention of family violence, as well as links to

  
  

  similar state and national organizations.
  

• Texas Department of Family & Protective Services:

  This site provides information on adoption, foster care, adult protection, child care, and child protection, as well

  
  

  as a listing of relevant hotlines.

• Texas Department of Human Services-Family Violence Shelters:

  This site provides a statewide listing of family-violence shelters and hotlines.

• U.S. Department of Justice—Office on Violence Against Women: This site provides updates on federal regulations and legislation relevant to the prevention of violence against
  women. The site also provides contact information for the National Domestic Violence Hotline and information
  on state domestic-violence hotlines and agencies.
• U.S. Department of Labor—Employee Benefits Security Administration: This site provides quick access to federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, advisory opinions, fact sheets,
  forms, document requests, news releases, compliance-assistance information, and other publications on pension,
  consumer-health, and welfare-benefits issues.
• Valuation—Automobiles: This site provides a searchable database for Blue Book values of automobiles.
• Valuation—Boats: This site provides, for a minimal fee, approximate values for boats, yachts, and watercraft.
• Valuation—Bonds—U.S. Savings Bonds: This site provides general information on savings bonds and features a calculator for determining the value of a
  bond.
• Valuation—Collectibles & Antiques: This site provides pricing information on collectibles and antiques to registered users.
• Valuation—Real Property: These sites provide property value and appraisal information.
• Valuation—Stock Quotes:

  These sites provide stock-pricing information.

Child Custody

• American Bar Association—Center on Children & the Law:
  This site provides information for family-law practitioners, including online articles, federal statutes, and links to
  sites related to protecting and educating children.
• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: This site contains NCMEC articles, a national database with pictures of missing children, resources for teaching
  children about safety, and legal resources for child sexual-exploitation cases.
• National Child Support Enforcement Association: This site contains information on child-support issues, a bill tracking chart for federal child-support legislation,
  and links to federal and state research initiatives.
• Support Guidelines: This site provides links to federal child-support guidelines, as well as the guidelines for all 50 states, the District
  of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Canada. The site also contains online child-support calculators and numerous
  articles and case summaries.
• Texas Attorney General-Child Support Division:

  This site provides information on the roles of the Texas Attorney General's Office and Texas local agencies in collecting child support, links to other relevant governmental agencies and programs, and forms for child-support services. The site also allows parents and attorneys to check the status of their child-support payment or case.

• Texas Coalition for Adoption Resources & Education:

  This site is dedicated to adoption issues and provides tracking of statutes in the Texas Legislature related to adoption.

  
  

  The site also includes an adoption search registry for those born in Texas or whose adoption was finalized in

  
  

  Texas.

• Texas Department of Public Safety-Missing Persons Clearinghouse:

  This site serves as a central repository for information on missing and unidentified persons in Texas.

• U.S. Department of State—Children & Family: This site features information on enforcement of child support abroad, international parental child abduction,
  and intercountry adoption, as well as links to other sites that deal with international children’s issues.
  General Information

Family Law

• American Bar Association—Section of Family Law: This site provides legal links aimed at practitioners, law students, and the general public, online discussion
  groups for family-law-section members, and a description of family-law projects related to children’s issues.
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• Code of Federal Regulations: This site provides access to and search capabilities for rules and regulations adopted by federal agencies.
• Expert Pages: This site features a directory of expert witnesses on most family-law issues.
• Federal Courts Finder: This site provides links to the U.S. Supreme Court and all federal appellate courts, district courts, tax courts, and
  bankruptcy courts, organized by state and circuit.
• Federal Judicial Center: This site is maintained by the education and research agency for the federal courts. The site provides access to
  various publications on current legal issues, including alternative dispute resolution and civil-rights litigation.
• FindLaw: This site provides a comprehensive index of legal resources, including a legal-subject index, state- and federallaw
  resources, legal-practice materials, cases, and codes, as well as legal news.
• Investigations—Locating Services—Fee: These sites offer research services, for a fee, to assist in locating individuals in the United States.
• Investigations—Locating Services—Free: These sites feature database search capabilities to assist in locating individuals in the United States. Payment is
  required to view information other than address or phone number.
• Law & Policy Institutions Guide: This site provides various law-related links, including book reviews, legal-research aids, and information on international
  law, foreign resources, and law libraries.
• Laws Online: This site provides links to U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme court cases, federal and state rules and codes,
  directories of attorneys and other legal professionals, law schools, law reviews, and service providers such as expert
  witnesses, trial consultants, private investigators, and interpreters.
• Legal Information Institute—Supreme Court Collection: This site contains all U.S. Supreme Court opinions issued since May 1990, discussions of the court’s most recent
  decisions, and a collection of over 600 historically important decisions rendered by the court. Cases are organized
  by topic, author, and party.
• Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research: This site features a search engine for decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and federal circuit courts, federal
  legislation and regulations, and additional legal resources.
• State Bar of Texas Family Law Section:

  This site provides links to publications, general information on the family-law section of the state bar, information

  
  

  on continuing legal education, and other resources for family-law practitioners in Texas.

• Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists:

  This site includes links to useful family-law sites, Texas and U.S. governmental organizations, online newspapers,

  
  

  search engines, and legal directories.

• Texas Administrative Code: This site provides access to all Texas state agency rules and regulations.
• Texas Attorney General—Opinions: This site features an index and a searchable database of opinions issued by the Texas Attorney General, an index
  of requests for an opinion, a status sheet on requests, and an overview of the request procedure.
• Texas Courts Online: This site provides information on and links to the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, appellate
  courts, trial courts, and judicial agencies and groups. The site also provides a search engine for the Texas Judicial
  System Directory.
• Texas Department of State Health Services—Bureau of Vital Statistics: This site provides information on births, adoptions, deaths, marriages, and divorces in Texas, including information
  on obtaining birth and death certificates, opening adoption records, reporting forms for suits affecting the
  parent-child relationship, and vital-statistics reports.
• Texas Ethics Commission: This site features a search engine for advisory opinions issued by the Texas Ethics Commission.
• Texas Ethics Reporter: This site provides information on ethics rules governing attorneys and judges in Texas.
• Texas Law Librarians: This site features an index of links to federal and Texas state legal-research resources.
• Texas Legislature Online:

  This site provides the complete text of Texas statutory law and a searchable database of bills passed by the Texas
  Legislature since 1989, which provides information on the status of all bills, including bill history with actions,
  amendments, companions, and captions. The full text of all bills dating back to 1993 is also included.

• Texas Online: This site provides links to Texas state and local electronic resources and an index of governmental- and taxingauthority
  websites and services.
• Texas Register: This site is an online version of the Texas Register, with information on new and proposed regulations, open
  meetings, public filings, gubernatorial appointments, and attorney general opinions, as well as a search engine
  for “TAC Titles Affected.” Both current and back issues are accessible, and there are indexes beginning with
  1997.
• Texas State Law Library: This site provides search capabilities for the Texas State Law Library catalog, information on the collections and
  services available at the library, and links to Texas legal resources.
• The Oyez Project: U.S. Supreme Court Media: This site provides information on major constitutional cases heard and decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Cases
  are organized by subject and term.
• Travis County Bar Association: Information and resources regarding Austin, Texas and Travis County attorneys.
• U.S. Code: This site provides the most current online version of the U.S. Code, searchable by popular title, headings, and
  text.
• U.S. Congress: This site supplies legislative information from the Library of Congress. The site provides records of daily floor activities; a searchable database of information on pending legislation, the Congressional Record, and committee
  information; and other information on the legislative process.
• U.S. Constitution: This site provides the complete text of the U.S. Constitution and annotations of U.S. Supreme Court cases that
  analyze and interpret the Constitution. The site is prepared by the Congressional Research Service of the Library
  of Congress.
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: This site features information on the Fifth Circuit, including opinions of the court, case information, rules of appellate
  procedure, and links to courts within the Fifth Circuit. The site also provides information on the Fifth Circuit
  library system.
• U.S. Department of Health & Human Services—Administration for Children & Families: This site provides information on and links to the governmental programs and offices within the Administration
  for Children and Families, as well as information on policy and planning.
• U.S. House of Representatives: This site includes links to and search capabilities for federal codes, bills, amendments, and debates, as well as
  contact information and voting records for each U.S. Representative.
• U.S. House of Representatives: This site includes links to and search capabilities for federal codes, bills, amendments, and debates, as well as
  contact information and voting records for each U.S. Representative.

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The Todd Law Firm represents clients in family law matters in austin, texas, travis county, williamson county, hays county, bastrop county, burnet county, dallas county, harris county, bexar county, dallas, houston, san antonio, san angelo, central texas, georgetown, san marcos, bastrop 

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austin family law attorney, texas divorce lawyer,custody lawyer, modification attorney, child support attorney, mediation attorney,  texas collaborative law attorney

812 San Antonio Street, Suite 401 Austin, TX 78701