Domestic & Marital Torts in Houston, Texas
The Houston family lawyers of Nichols Law believe in helping families who have suffered from a terrible injustice. Our experienced trial attorneys work hard to get our client compensated for the expenses and pain they endured from tortious action. John Nichols, Sr. has many years experience in tort-jury trial litigation with jury damage verdicts in the millions for invasion of privacy, interception of communications (including wiretapping), kidnapping, breach of fiduciary duties and fraud.
Domestic torts include claims for:
- Abuse of process
- Accounting
- Actual damages
- Actual fraud
- Agency
- Alter Ego - disregarding corporate form
- Alter Ego - trust
- Assault and Battery
- Bailment
- Breach of computer security
- Breach of fiduciary duty under the trust fund doctrine
- Child Abduction
- Conspiracy
- Constructive fraud
- Constructive fraud against community property
- Conversion
- Defamation
- Economic duress
- Estoppel
- Exemplary damages
- False imprisonment
- Forgery
- Fraud and negligent misrepresentation on the person
- Fraud on property
- Fraudent conveyance
- Fraudulent destruction, removal or concealment of writing
- Fraudulent transfer of property
- Fraudulent use or possession of identifying information
- Intentional inflection of emotional distress
- Interception of communications
- Interference with child custody
- Interference with existing and prospective contract
- Intrusion on seclusion
- Invasion of privacy
- Joint venture/partnership
- Kidnapping
- Malicious prosecution
- Money had and received
- Property held or controlled
- Public disclosure of private facts
- Securing execution of documentation through deception
- Slander
- Terroristic threats
- Transmitting sexual disease
- Trespass
- Unsurpation of community opportunity
Many of these cases are tried to juries and can and have resulted in large verdicts of the victims of these torts. These cases are usually tried with the divorce case.
