divorce and fAMILY LAW
AUSTIN, TEXAS
Mary Louise Phelps is the founding partner of Phelps Law Firm. She practices both traditional and collaborative family law.
Mary Louise is skilled at solving the intricate financial, social, and relational issues of high-net-worth divorce and complex family law matters. She provides a concierge-style approach, working with clients to preserve wealth and provide security and protection for children.
Mary Louise has significant experience with cases involving the tracing of separate property assets, the valuation of business interests, and the division of equity incentives for founders, business owners, and executives.
Practice Areas
Divorce | Child Custody | Complex Property Division | Modifications | Conflict Resolution
Family law is a highly sensitive and emotional area. It is best if rational and logical decision making prevails.
At her core, Mary Louise believes the practice of family law is about restructuring families, not destroying them. Whenever possible, she steers clients toward settlement, and away from financially and emotionally draining court proceedings.
Mary Louise fosters empathy not enmity.
She believes in conscious uncoupling — divorcing in a respectful and civil way. Despite Mary Louise’s success settling cases, she is experienced in adversarial litigation. Her clients know that when aggressive courtroom advocacy is needed, she will be there — well prepared and well-spoken.
As an advocate for her clients, Mary Louise works with forensic accountants, business valuators, real estate and business transactional attorneys, mental health professionals, addiction experts, educational experts, and other child-related specialists.
Mary Louise is compassionate, sophisticated, and strategic in her approach.
Established Reputation
“During the most difficult time in my life, the professionalism and kindness she showed was endless.”
“Not only is she extremely intelligent, she is a compassionate, caring individual, and possesses an innate ability to induce reliance through effective communication and listening skills.”
“What I perceived as a very complex case was made very simple by her knowledge of process and communication there of.”
“There is not enough review space for me to praise Mary Louise. She is an amazing person and incredible attorney. The fate of our family was in her hands and ultimately, we could not be happier with the outcome.”
“Mary Louise is now one of the family — we had a very difficult divorce to include complex property/investment settlements, enforcements, custody, etc. Mary Louise responded with highly proactive, efficient counseling. ML was tenacious.”
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