Q. What type of lawyer specializes in advising women who are living with a significant other (but not yet married) regarding various legal matters, like buying a house, making medical decisions, paying for insurance, filing tax returns, and other similar things? How would one find that type of lawyer?

A. You could probably seek advice on those matters from either a family lawyer or an estate planning lawyer.

If you don't know any lawyers who work in one of these areas of the law, you could search for a lawyer at the Texas Board of Legal Specialization's website tbls.org. Any licensed lawyer can become board certified in either family law or estate planning law by devoting a certain amount of time to that area of the law, by passing a........

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