Abeyta, Sean Patrick

"Because the stakes often are so high, family law cases provide opportunities to make a real difference in clients' lives."

A focused and aggressive professional with more than 12 years of achievement handling complex cases, Sean Patrick Abeyta possesses extensive trial experience and has represented clients in all types of family law cases.

Mr. Abeyta earned his undergraduate degree in government, with a minor in business administration, at the University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He attended the University of Texas School of Law and earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1997. While in law school, he was awarded the Clarence Leon Carter Endowed Presidential Scholarship.

For the first nine years of his career, Mr. Abeyta operated a solo practice that was a general practice with emphasis in family law, criminal defense, and personal injury law. Some of his professional highlights included negotiating many significant personal injury settlements, including a $200,000 wrongful death settlement, as well as litigating more than 20 jury trials as lead counsel or second-chair attorney.

Since 2007, Mr. Abeyta has limited his practice to family law.

"Over the years," he says, "My family cases became the most compelling, because those were the cases in which my clients had entrusted me to help them protect their children (the most important parts of their lives), to help them protect their life savings and other assets, and to assist them during some of the most difficult and trying periods in their lives."

Because of this dedication to family law, Mr. Abeyta joined KoonsFuller in 2009, where, he says, he can "draw from the firm's tremendous resources while enjoying the selectivity of a boutique firm to provide each client with the attention and excellent representation that he or she deserves."

Mr. Abeyta is a member of the Texas State Bar, the Denton County Bar Association and Family Law Section, the Dallas Bar Association and Family Law Section, and the Tarrant County Family Law Bar Association.

He is also a former member of the South Plains Trial Lawyers Association, where he served as Vice-President and Secretary/Treasurer.