Ruth Vernier

Ruth Lavada Vernier is a family law attorney and managing partner of Vernier & Associates, PLLC, in The Woodlands, Texas. She founded the firm, where her daughter, Brooke Vernier Barry, and granddaughter, Paige Elizabeth Hutton, also practice.

Vernier studied psychology at the University of Cincinnati, earning her B.S. in 1980; her J.D. followed in 1983 at the university’s College of Law. Her individual practice listing covers divorce, adoption and paternity, as well as child support, custody and visitation. Juvenile law is included too. Beyond those family law matters, the listing names wills and guardianships, with collaborative law and mediation also among her stated practice areas.

Several collaborative-practice organizations appear in her professional affiliations: the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals, Gulf Coast Collaborative Law Network and Alliance of Collaborative Family Law Attorneys. Her profile also lists the Collaborative Law Institute of Texas, Texas Lawyers for Children and the Family Law Section of the State Bar of Texas.

The firm operates from Suite 110 at 2441 High Timbers Drive in The Woodlands. Its work is described as almost entirely family law. In outlining that work, Vernier & Associates names complex divorce, property division and custody cases. The firm also reports handling international child abduction cases under the Hague Convention. That international work is part of the firm’s practice description, distinct from the subjects listed on Vernier’s own attorney profile.