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The Webb Family Law Firm: The Dallas Family Law Attorney Practice With Six Board-Certified Specialists on One Roster

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The Webb Family Law Firm: The Dallas Family Law Attorney Practice With Six Board-Certified Specialists on One Roster

The Webb Family Law Firm is a Dallas family law attorney practice built on a single founder’s 40-year legacy — continued today by a managing partner who handles international child abduction cases alongside six attorneys who all hold the same rare Texas specialty certification.

The Webb Family Law Firm — Dallas Family Law Attorney At a Glance

FOUNDED BY Brian L. Webb (1949–2019), whose family law career spanned more than 40 years, per the firm
LED BY Natalie L. Webb — J.D. cum laude, SMU Dedman School of Law (2008); board certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization; Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers
FOCUS Family law exclusively — high-asset divorce, complex property division, child custody, international child abduction, premarital/postmarital agreements
OFFICE Republic Center, 325 N. St. Paul St., Ste. 3900, Dallas, TX 75201
BENCH Six attorneys board certified in Family Law by TBLS: Natalie L. Webb, Brant M. Webb, Greg Beane, Kelvin Malone, Jim Loveless, and Lon M. Loveless
FEE MODEL Hourly/retainer, standard for contested family law representation (not contingency)
KNOWN FOR High-asset and “divorce for professionals” cases (doctors, lawyers, pilots, athletes, entrepreneurs); international child abduction under the Hague Convention; certified mediation

Sources: webbfamilylaw.com (firm website), Super Lawyers, AAML. Compiled August 2026.

Origin: A Legacy Firm Under New Leadership

The Webb Family Law Firm’s founding story centers on Brian L. Webb, who died in 2019 after a family law career the firm describes as spanning more than 40 years. His honors, per the firm, included the Sam Emison Award from the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, membership in the American College of Family Trial Lawyers, and induction into the Hall of Legends of the State Bar of Texas Family Law Section — a lifetime-achievement-tier recognition rather than an annual award.

The firm is now led by Natalie L. Webb, who earned her J.D. cum laude from SMU’s Dedman School of Law in 2008 after a B.S. in International Business from Trinity University, and has practiced exclusively in family law since her 2008 admission to the Texas bar. She is board certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists and the Texas Family Law Foundation. Her practice includes a specialty not every family law attorney handles: international child abduction cases, where she works to help parents navigate cross-border legal systems, typically under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, to reunite with children taken abroad.

Where the Firm Concentrates

The firm’s practice runs the standard high-conflict family law docket — divorce, complex marital property division, child custody, child support, premarital and postmarital agreements, protective orders, and modifications — with two documented specialty lanes. The first is “divorce for professionals,” the firm’s own term for representing doctors, lawyers, pilots, athletes, entrepreneurs, and other clients whose income structure, licensing, or business interests complicate a standard property division. The second is certified mediation: both Natalie Webb and attorney Greg Beane are certified mediators, giving the firm an internal alternative-dispute-resolution capacity rather than referring mediation out to a third party. Readers comparing options can see how this profile fits alongside other Family Law & Divorce attorneys covered on Awesome Attorneys.

Notable Work

As with other family law firms, contested divorce and custody outcomes are typically confidential or simply not the kind of result reported as a dollar figure. The firm’s most distinctive documented specialty is Natalie Webb’s international child abduction practice, which by its nature involves cross-border litigation under an international treaty framework rather than a Texas jury verdict — a genuinely uncommon specialty inside general family law practice. Beyond that, the firm’s six TBLS certifications collectively, and the late Brian Webb’s Hall of Legends induction specifically, are the clearest evidence of standing inside the Texas family law bar available from public sources.

Client Voice

The firm’s published testimonials are limited in volume but attributed by first name:

“Working with Natalie was a breeze, he was very knowledgeable, was easy to work with and talk to, and really understood what I was trying to accomplish for my kids.” — Shane G.

This is drawn from the firm’s own website; Awesome Attorneys did not independently verify the reviewer’s identity, a standard limitation across attorney-published testimonials. The firm’s public review volume is thinner than some competitors profiled in this category, which readers may want to weigh alongside the credential and case-type evidence above.

Beyond the Courtroom

Natalie Webb’s bar-service record is extensive: she is a member of the Dallas Bar Association Family Law Section, the Tarrant County Family Law Bar Association, the Texas Family Law Foundation, the American Bar Association Section of Family Law, the Dallas Association of Young Lawyers, the Texas Bar College, and a Fellow of the Dallas Bar Foundation, and belongs to the Annette Stewart American Inn of Court — an organization that pairs newer and experienced family law attorneys for mentorship and CLE. She has also co-authored and presented at numerous State Bar of Texas Advanced Family Law courses over more than a decade, on topics ranging from settlement-agreement drafting to attorney ethics.

Recognition

The strongest credentials here are the firm’s six TBLS board certifications and Brian Webb’s Hall of Legends induction — both tested/peer-evaluated or lifetime-achievement-tier honors, not marketing placements. Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars selections (Natalie Webb: 2017, 2020–2022) are peer-nomination-based. By contrast, the firm’s Best Lawyers “Best Law Firm” placement, D Magazine listing, and Living Magazine “Best Family Law Firm in Dallas” award sit closer to the directory/reader-poll end of the spectrum — useful visibility markers, but not equivalent in rigor to the TBLS certification.

Texas Legal Backdrop

The same structural rules apply to any Texas family law matter, presented as general information and not legal advice. Texas requires six months’ domicile in the state and 90 days in the filing county before a divorce petition can be filed (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.301), and imposes a mandatory 60-day waiting period after filing before a divorce can be finalized, with a family-violence exception (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.702). Texas’s community property system presumes property and debt acquired during the marriage belongs to both spouses, subject to a “just and right” division, while separate property — owned before marriage or received by gift or inheritance — generally remains that spouse’s own (Tex. Fam. Code §§ 3.002–3.003). Divorce may proceed on the no-fault ground of insupportability (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.001). Custody, termed conservatorship in Texas, is decided under a best-interest-of-the-child standard (Tex. Fam. Code ch. 153), and child support follows statutory guideline percentages of the paying parent’s net resources (Tex. Fam. Code § 154.125). For the firm’s international abduction cases specifically, the relevant framework is federal and international rather than the Texas Family Code: the International Child Abduction Remedies Act implements the Hague Convention in U.S. courts and generally requires a wrongfully removed child to be returned to their country of habitual residence for the underlying custody dispute to be resolved there.

Awesome Attorneys Assessment

The Webb Family Law Firm’s differentiator is a combination not every competitor offers together: six attorneys who all hold the same rare TBLS family law certification, plus a genuinely uncommon international child abduction specialty at the top of the firm. For a high-asset divorce, a “divorce for professionals” case with complex compensation structures, or — in the narrower but higher-stakes case of an international abduction — a cross-border custody dispute, that combination of bench depth and specialty experience is a meaningful differentiator.

The honest trade-off is what the public record doesn’t show as clearly as some competitors: the firm’s published client testimonials are thinner in volume than several other Dallas family law firms in this category, which makes it harder for a prospective client to independently gauge day-to-day client experience from outside sources. Clients weighing this firm against a competitor with a deeper public review history should ask directly for references, particularly if their case would be handled primarily by an attorney other than Natalie Webb herself.

Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was researched and written independently by Awesome Attorneys’ editorial team in August 2026. Primary source: the firm’s own published website (webbfamilylaw.com), including its firm overview, attorney biography pages, and testimonials. Secondary sources: Super Lawyers and the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers’ attorney directory. The Webb Family Law Firm did not commission, pay for, or pre-approve this article. All credentials and claims are attributed to their sources; past results do not guarantee or predict future outcomes. This article is general information, not legal advice.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Facts, figures, and claims in this profile were independently researched from public sources as described in the Methodology & Sourcing section above and are current only as of the research date; they are subject to change without notice, and readers should confirm any detail directly with the firm before relying on it. This notice supplements, and does not replace, the Attorney Advertising Notice at the top of this profile.

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