PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Board Certified family law trial attorney with 24 years in practice and more than 400 cases tried to rendition in the family and district courts of Harris and Fort Bend Counties and the Office of the Attorney General child support courts. Founder of a Houston firm handling contested and uncontested divorce, custody, child support, statewide family law appeals, judgment enforcement and exemption planning. Appears daily in the ten Harris County family courts and about twice a week in the four Fort Bend County family courts, and personally tries the firm’s contested cases. Former debtor’s counsel in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 before the Houston and Galveston Divisions of the Southern District of Texas: more than 4,000 bankruptcies filed and over $250,000,000 in debt discharged. Prior careers as a U.S. Marine field artilleryman and a licensed funeral director and embalmer shaped a practice built on disciplined preparation, direct answers and steadiness under pressure. PERSPECTIVE He has sat where his clients sit. Married three times — twice in Harris County and once in Fort Bend County — and divorced twice in the Harris County family district courts (the 245th and the 309th), once as his own petitioner proving up a Rule 11 agreement and once through counsel. He knows the inventories, the temporary orders, the waiting and the cost from the petitioner’s chair as well as counsel table. He is father to three children and stepfather to three more, and has raised a family across Japanese, Honduran and Palestinian households, so a client whose marriage spans cultures, languages or borders is not explaining something foreign to him. That experience shapes the counsel: practical rather than therapeutic, focused on workable co-parenting, firm boundaries and getting the client to the other side with their finances and their relationships with their children intact. The main office sits in Houston’s International District, and the firm works in English and Spanish. His eldest daughter is a Texas Army National Guard veteran; his son followed him into the Marine Corps. An ordained minister, he performs wedding ceremonies at no charge in the office or by Zoom; marrying a couple conflicts him out of ever representing either spouse against the other, a bargain he accepts willingly. CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES AND ADMISSIONS Certification Board Certified, Family Law — Texas Board of Legal Specialization; certified 2017, recertified 2021 and 2026 Licensure State Bar of Texas, No. 24036294, licensed since 2002 Federal court U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas Memberships State Bar of Texas · Houston Bar Association · College of the State Bar of Texas Prior licensure Funeral director and embalmer, Oklahoma and North Carolina (former) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Founder and Managing Partner · Law Offices of Michael G. Busby Jr., P.C. d/b/a Busby & Associates · Houston, Texas · 2002–present ▪ Built a family law and judgment enforcement practice from a solo office into a multi-attorney firm with two Houston locations (the International District and Independence Heights). ▪ Tried more than 400 cases to rendition; briefs and argues family law appeals statewide, in the First and Fourteenth Courts of Appeals and the other Texas courts of appeals. ▪ Divorce (contested, uncontested, default and high-asset), custody and conservatorship, child support establishment, modification and enforcement, property and debt division, spousal maintenance and modifications. ▪ Post-judgment collection and creditor’s rights: writs of garnishment, execution, turnover, liens, post-judgment discovery and child support arrears — the asset-tracing and valuation skills of contested property division applied to enforcement. ▪ Supervises the firm’s associate attorney and paralegal staff; practice conducted in English and Spanish; meets clients evenings and weekends, including by Zoom, to keep client costs down. Debtor’s Counsel, Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston and Galveston Divisions · former practice area ▪ Filed more than 4,000 consumer bankruptcies and discharged over $250,000,000 in debt; that creditor-side and debtor-side experience with exemptions, liens and collection now drives the firm’s judgment enforcement work. Funeral Director and Embalmer · Harry & Bryant Company, Charlotte, North Carolina; apprenticeship at Baggerley Funeral Home, Edmond, Oklahoma · before law school ▪ Licensed in both states. Served families on their hardest days; the steadiness learned there carries directly into family law practice. PRACTICE AREAS Divorce Contested, uncontested and default divorce; high-asset divorce; property and debt division; spousal maintenance Children Custody and conservatorship; child support establishment, modification, enforcement and collection; interstate custody and support; grandparents’ rights; adoption Appeals Family law appeals statewide, before any of the fourteen Texas courts of appeals, with a home base in the First and Fourteenth in Houston Judgment enforcement Collection of civil judgments and child support arrears: garnishment, execution, turnover, liens, post-judgment discovery Exemption planning Texas exemption planning for debtors and judgment debtors: homestead, personal property, retirement accounts and wages EDUCATION ▪ Juris Doctor, South Texas College of Law, Houston, Texas ▪ Bachelor of Science, with honors, University of Central Oklahoma, 1996 MILITARY SERVICE ▪ U.S. Army Reserve, 1988–1989. Enlisted at 17 as a 52D; drilled from Fort Chaffee, Arkansas. ▪ U.S. Marine Corps, 1989–1993. Field artillery, Fleet Marine Force. Recruit training, San Diego (Platoon 2095); artillery school, Fort Sill. 4th Bn, 12th Marines, Camp Foster, Okinawa (two Pacific tours); 5th Bn, 10th Marines, Camp Lejeune. M101 105mm and M198 155mm howitzers. ▪ Army National Guard, 1993–1997. 11C infantry (Arkansas); 1-160th Field Artillery, M102 (Oklahoma); 1-113th Field Artillery, M109 (North Carolina). Second-generation Marine; his father, a Vietnam-era Marine, rests at Houston National Cemetery. His son now serves in the Marine Corps; his eldest daughter is a Texas Army National Guard veteran.