Nguyen, Jasmin T.

"The practice of family law allows me to provide an intangible service to individuals during tumultuous times in their lives."

For Eric Navarrette, the more chaotic the family situation and complex the financial arrangements in a case, the more calm and directed he gets. He thrives on what he calls the "formlessness of family law" that allows him to mold success stories from unique facts and circumstances.

Mr. Navarrette practiced family law with a firm in Lubbock before becoming an Associate with KoonsFuller in January 2010. As a young family lawyer, he prides himself in his ability to navigate through the system and convince judges and juries to look at his perspective on child custody and other arrangements. Dedicated to the best interests of the children involved in his cases, he has secured primary conservatorship for non-parents, grandparents, and deserving parents.

In his second year of practice, he represented a married couple with possession of a non-relative little boy. After raising this child for over two years, they received a unanimous jury verdict terminating the parental rights of the biological parents, thus allowing Mr. Navarrette's clients the opportunity to adopt the child. Similarly, after the tragic death of a toddler's biological mother, he assisted in securing a bench verdict granting the maternal grandparents sole managing conservatorship over the biological father. That father's parental rights were later terminated and the maternal grandparents' adoption of their granddaughter was finalized.

"Understanding where a client has been is essential to knowing where I can help them be at the end of their case," Mr. Navarrette says. "Being compassionate to a client's situation lets them know that I am invested in their case. Being assertive at the negotiating table or in the courtroom shows the client that they have an advocate invested in their goals and interests."

Mr. Navarrette earned his bachelor of arts in criminal justice from St. Mary's University in 2003 and his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Texas Tech University School of Law in 2006. While in law school, he attended a summer institute at the Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, and served as an officer in the Hispanic Law Student Association.

He is a member of the Dallas County Bar Association, the Denton County Bar Association, the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and the Texas Family Law Foundation.

He is bilingual in Spanish and has completed collaborative law training.

He believes that joining KoonsFuller is the shortest path to greatness for a budding family law attorney. "This firm's cutting-edge and team approach to the practice of family law allows individual attorneys to flourish into dedicated and successful family law practitioners," he says.