Kevin R. Davidson
Counsel

Each client needs a compassionate advisor just as much as they need a strong advocate in the courtroom. By listening to clients and learning about their goals for themselves and for their children, along with the issues that caused the family breakdown in the first place, I can help them resolve their immediate problems and avoid similar disputes down the road.

Kevin Davidson focuses his practice on resolving the entire range of family law matters for clients in Dallas and the surrounding counties, including divorce proceedings, child custody matters, marital property agreements, and complex property division and enforcement. He represents clients with diverse backgrounds and needs, ranging from high-net-worth business owners and professionals with complex property valuation and division issues, to young parents involved in highly emotional custody battles where the best interests of the children are at stake. Kevin is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Kevin adapts his approach to the unique circumstances of every case, whether his client's goals require aggressive litigation through trial, or collaboration with opposing parties to reach a more amicable outcome without the need for court intervention. Since many of his cases involve children impacted by custody disputes, Kevin has significant experience in finding creative solutions that foster effective co-parenting relationships and avoid future conflicts in the courtroom for the sake of the children.

While earning his J.D. from the University of Houston Law Center, Kevin interned with the Harris County District Attorney’s Office throughout law school, prosecuting crimes involving family violence. This early experience gave Kevin a unique understanding of the trauma caused by family violence that helps him resolve cases involving abused spouses and children more effectively in his family law practice.

Representative Experience
  • Appeared in more than 300 contested hearings, mediations or trials.
  • Successfully represented relator in matter of first impression resulting in a published opinion regarding whether a foreign national in the country on a tourist visa can establish a domicile sufficient to file for divorce from another foreign national nonresident.
  • Represented multiple executives in divorce proceedings including complex property division, characterization and division of significant estates.
  • Represented the IT executive in a highly contested divorce case involving complex assets and child custody issues turning on allegations of substance abuse and family violence.
  • Represented finance executive in divorce resolved through mediation, protecting client’s significant separate property interest in substantial estate.
  • Represented numerous lawyers in meditated divorce settlements to maintain the privacy of the parties.
  • Represented physician in child custody matter, securing primary custody of 2-year-old with right to move out of state.
  • Successfully intervened in multiple cases on behalf of grandparents to obtain primary custody of children following evidence of substance abuse by parents.
  • Successfully prosecuted and defended numerous contempt actions involving child possession, child support, spousal maintenance and division of property.
  • Represented wife of tenured professor, obtaining highly disproportionate division of assets in client’s favor.
  • Secured primary custody with right to move abroad for Japanese mother of 10-year-old child.
  • Prepared numerous premarital agreements to protect seven-figure separate estates of physicians, executives and business owners.
  • Completed multiple step-child and open adoptions. 
Thought Leadership / News
May 12, 2023 
 Speeches and Presentations
Constitutional Aspects of Parent-Child Relationships: Current Topics Affecting Parents and Their Students

14th Annual State Bar of Texas Bill of Rights Course

May 5, 2023 
 Speeches and Presentations
Constitutional Issues in Family Law

Texas Bar CLE

January 4, 2022 
 Press Releases
January 2020 
 In the News

Texas Bar Journal

Honors
  • Selected by his peers for inclusion in Woodward/White, Inc.'s The Best Lawyers in America in the field of Family Law (2021 - 2023)
  • Named a Rising Star by Texas Super Lawyers (a Thomson Reuters company) as published in Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers magazines (2021)
Organizational Involvement

Professional Activities, Memberships & Affiliations

  • State Bar of Texas
    • Chair, Individual Rights & Responsibilities Section (2015 - 2016)
    • Course Director, State Bar's Bill of Rights Continuing Legal Education Course (2015 - 2016)
  • College of the State Bar of Texas (2016 - present)
  • Dallas Bar Association
    • Family Law Section (2014 - present)
    • Committee Chair, Dallas Association of Young Lawyers (2011 - present)
  • Dallas Association of Young Lawyers Leadership Class (2016)
  • Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow

Community Involvement, Memberships & Affiliations

  • Guest Lecturer on Law and Texas Government, Tarrant County Community College
  • Regularly accepts pro bono appointments from the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP) and Human Rights Initiative of North Texas (HRI)
  • Active member of Lochwood Neighborhood Association
Education
  • J.D., University of Houston Law Center (2008)
  • B.A., Anthropology & Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin (2004)
Bar Admission
  • Texas