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April 30, 2020 Professional License Defense

Facing Allegations Before Texas Child Care Licensing

Child Care Licensing, a subdivision of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services under the auspices of Texas Health and Human Services, is the board that manages the granting of and maintenance of licenses to perform child care services in the State of Texas. As such, it is charged both with regulating all operations providing child care services within the state, and with all placing of children within the state. It oversees permitting and...

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April 29, 2020 Posts

When a Client Claims Your Attorney Bill is Too High

The fact is, no matter how complicated a case, clients will consider an attorney’s fees to be too high. (This helps account for why we lawyers are the butts of so many jokes.) The majority of people in Texas don’t understand all of the costs, skills, or time investments that go into being a practicing attorney—and which you are entitled for them to reimburse you for. Most of the time, this just results in biting...

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April 28, 2020 Posts

Responding to Complaints Against Your License

With very few limited exceptions, every Texas licensing board or commission that chooses to pursue complaints against its licensees is required to notify the license-holder of the complaint—particularly after the board or commission has determined that the complaint alleged is within its competence to investigate and discipline. When you are given such notification, it is paramount that you do nothing that may harm your defense against the complaint. The ways in which you respond at...

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April 27, 2020 Posts

Facing Complaints Before the Texas Real Estate Commission

The Texas Real Estate Commission is the regulatory body that oversees licensure and disciplinary actions for Real Estate Professionals—including Real Estate Sales Agents, Brokers, Real Estate Inspectors, Easement and Right-of-Way Agents, Residential Service Companies, Real Estate Education Providers, and so on. When someone—whether a former client or a third party—feels that a Real Estate Professional has somehow violated the Real Estate License Act or the TREC Rules, they may file a complaint before the Commission....

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March 06, 2020 Medical License Defense

Accusations of Fraud and Your Dental License

A dentist who has achieved licensure will have gone through a great deal of education and qualification to earn their right to practice their chosen profession. Having earned that license, you should do nothing that can put your livelihood in jeopardy. In the normal course of doing business, a practitioner will be required to interact with insurance carriers so that patients can have their dental care covered. In general, an insurance company will provide a...

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How an agent under your supervision could cause you to lose your real estate license

March 05, 2020 Real Estate License Defense

How an Agent Under Your Supervision Could Cause You to Lose Your Real Estate Broker’s License

A real estate broker in the state of Texas has done a great deal of work to not only be licensed to buy or sell real estate on behalf of clients, but to own their own firm that is worked by other licensees. In fact, real estate licensees cannot sell or buy real estate on their own—they must be sponsored by a licensed broker. In the state of Texas, real estate licenses—both for brokers and...

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March 04, 2020 Real Estate License Defense

When a Perception of Misrepresentation Endangers Your Real Estate License

When you have worked hard to earn your real estate license, a rewarding career is in the offing. The last thing you want to do is to endanger your livelihood by putting that license at risk of being revoked. Any accusation against your license should be met with a vigorous defense. That includes when someone has complained that you have engaged in misrepresentation by failing to disclose important facts about a property. A real estate...

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March 03, 2020 Posts

When a CPA is Accused of Violating Best Practices

Mistakes in any profession can proceed from becoming overworked—and those in professions with “crunch times,” many of whom perhaps make the bulk of their yearly income during a certain time of year, are at particular risk for accidentally violating best practices or for being wrongfully accused of doing so. For some CPAs, this season is tax season—harvest time for the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy. While there are a number of breaches of best...

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Student loan debt default can cause you to lose your professional license in texas

March 02, 2020 Posts

When Student Loan Debt Default Could Cause You to Lose Your Professional License in Texas

Student loan debt has been in the news a lot for the past few years, as the cost of getting a higher education has skyrocketed well beyond the rate of salary inflation. Unfortunately, for quite a while a number of states—including Texas—have had laws on the books that permit licensing agencies to strip professionals of their licenses if they fall behind on payments of their student loans. Our state’s Sunset Advisory Commission back in 1988...

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March 01, 2020 Posts

Licensure Consequences When an Attorney is Accused of a Crime

As an attorney, you have put in a considerable amount of time and energy toward becoming a licensed professional, including law school and passing the Texas Bar Exam. Being accused of a crime risks losing all that you have worked so hard for. Yet when an attorney has been charged with a crime, particularly a crime that the State Bar has determined to be one whose commission is germane to a lawyer’s fitness to practice...

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