Diggs & Sadler

Focus and practice areas

This Houston firm works within Texas family law. Diggs & Sadler lists divorce, child custody, child support, spousal maintenance and alimony, property division, and domestic violence on its site. It also names paternity, adoption, prenuptial and marital agreements, appeals, and assisted reproduction. Employment law appears on the list as well.

Family law covers many situations that arrive together. A divorce can raise property division and support at the same time. A custody matter can turn on parenting time and the right to make decisions for a child. The firm names both the opening steps and the follow up work, such as enforcement and modifications after a first order.

The firm also handles employment law matters. Those cases can involve workplace disputes and the agreements that govern a job. Placing that work beside the family services means a client facing both a separation and a job problem can raise them with one office.

How the team is built

The site names nine attorneys: Judith Sadler, Cindy Diggs, Tesha Peeples, Rachel Sedita, Jessica Lara Schneider, Bret Bosker, Melisenda Olivares, Firdaos Adesina, and Jordan Firebaugh. The firm states that the group holds more than 125 years of combined experience. It describes a team approach to cases.

A team approach means more than one lawyer can work a single file. In my opinion, that helps when a case carries several parts at once, such as a divorce that also involves custody and property questions. The firm presents its lawyers as a working group, and the roster gives a client several names before a first meeting.

The firm gives a combined figure for experience: more than 125 years across nine lawyers. That works out to a group with a good deal of experience between them. The site does not list a founding year, so this combined count is the measure the firm chose to share.

The family law work in detail

Beyond the core services, the firm lists high asset divorce and international divorce. It names interstate and international jurisdiction disputes, which come up when spouses or children live in different states or countries. The list also names military divorce, mediation, LGBTQ+ family law, and parental rights matters.

How some of these matters proceed

High asset divorce often means valuing a business, retirement accounts, and real property before the two sides can divide them. Mediation gives both sides a chance to settle terms before a judge rules. A modification asks a court to change an existing order once circumstances shift, for example a move or a change in income. These are ordinary stages in Texas family cases, and the firm lists each one.

Cross border cases add a step that a local matter avoids. A court first decides which state or country holds authority, then it weighs the merits. Enforcement, another listed service, is the stage where a party asks a court to make the other side follow an order already in place. The firm names each of these, which points to matters that can run longer than a single hearing.

The firm lists both settlement work and courtroom work. That pairing tells a client the firm can move a case along either path as the facts require. Some families reach terms early, while others need a judge to decide, and the roster is set up to handle both.

Where the firm works

The firm works with clients in Houston and along the Gulf Coast. Its website carries area pages for Katy, The Woodlands, Pearland, and Sugar Land, which are communities around the city. Each of those places has its own courts, and an area page that names a suburb shows the firm speaking to clients there by name.

Family court in Texas runs at the county level. A Houston filing usually goes through the Harris County district courts, while the surrounding towns fall under nearby counties. In my opinion, the separate area pages suggest the firm files and appears in more than one of them. Local pages of this kind can help a client judge whether a firm regularly handles matters near where they live.

Agreements, parentage and appeals

Prenuptial and marital agreements set out how a couple will handle property and support if a marriage ends. Texas courts check these for fairness and full disclosure at the time of signing. The firm lists this work next to paternity and adoption.

Paternity cases establish legal fatherhood, which then shapes custody, support, and inheritance. Adoption creates a permanent legal bond between parent and child, and it usually follows a home study and a court hearing. Assisted reproduction, which the firm also names, can raise parentage questions that a family court settles. The firm lists appeals too, the route a party takes to ask a higher court to review a trial decision. As a reviewer, I read the mix of these connected services as a way to give a client one point of contact across related steps.

Support and protection matters

Child support in Texas follows state guidelines that tie the amount to the paying parent's income and the number of children. A court can adjust the figure for health costs, existing obligations, or other factors. The firm lists child support next to spousal maintenance and alimony. Those two cover payments between former partners, while child support covers a parent's duty to a child.

Domestic violence work often starts with a protective order. A Texas court can issue one to limit contact and set boundaries while a family case moves forward. The firm names domestic violence among its services, and such matters usually run in step with a divorce or custody filing.

Office details and direct contact

Diggs & Sadler lists its office at 5300 Memorial Drive, Suite 900, Houston, Texas 77007. The street address and suite number give clients a precise destination for correspondence or an appointment. The directory also provides the telephone number (713) 766-5355 and the firm's website at texasadvocates.com. These details give a prospective client two direct ways to contact the office before sending documents or arranging a visit.

The complete postal address is useful because it identifies the firm's physical Houston office rather than offering only a citywide service description. Suite 900 narrows the location within the building, while the 77007 ZIP code supplies the mailing area. In my view, this is practical information for a client who expects to deliver records, attend a conference, or confirm where the lawyers are based.

Information about individual attorneys

The individual attorney entries in this record are limited. They provide no titles or biographies, and the fields for law schools and admission years are blank. As a result, the directory does not connect a particular lawyer with a listed type of case. It also gives no individual education or licensing timeline from which a reader could compare members of the group.

A prospective client would need to contact the office for that attorney-level information. Useful questions could cover who would take primary responsibility for the file and which lawyer has handled a similar legal issue. The existing group experience figure describes the firm collectively, while these blank profile fields leave individual backgrounds for a later conversation.

Court and language details

The record names no specific courts or venues. It therefore does not confirm, attorney by attorney, where members of the firm are admitted or where they regularly appear. A client whose matter involves an appeal, another state, or an international jurisdiction question would need to confirm the relevant admission and venue directly with the office.

No language information appears in the record either. Clients who prefer to discuss private family or employment issues in a language other than English cannot determine available language support from this listing. That question belongs in the first call, particularly when documents, testimony, or communication with relatives may require accurate interpretation.