Bankruptcy & Family Law Firm in Houston
Busby & Associates is a bankruptcy and family law firm that offers professional legal services in the following areas of law: Debt Consolidation, Consumer Bankruptcy, and Family Law.
We want to be your attorney! Our law firm offers discounted attorney fees and high quality professional legal services. We take the fear out of hiring a lawyer. For information about our legal services, please call at (713) 974-1151 and talk to one of our friendly and professional staff members.
Attorneys and Bios
Michael G. Busby Jr., - Houston Bankruptcy Lawyer
Mr. Busby is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, the Houston Association of Debtor's Attorneys and is admitted to practice in the Federal Courts in the Southern District of Texas.
He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and served as a Field Artillery Cannoner from 1989 to 1993. Mr. Busby also served in the National Guard from 1993 to 1997 in the states of Arkansas, Oklahoma and North Carolina.
Mr. Busby received his Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1996.
He graduated from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas. Mr. Busby is a member of the Phi Delta Phi International Law fraternity and authored an international law legal article in a law journal published by South Texas College of Law.
Mr. Busby is married and is the proud father of two daughters, Viktoria and Hannah Busby.
Eric Southward
Mr. Southward is a member of the State Bar of Indiana and is admitted to practice in the Southern District of Texas, Northern District of Illinois, and the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana. He is a member of the Houston Association Debtor's Attorneys and the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys.
Mr. Southward has nine years of federal bankruptcy and consumer law experience. Prior to joining Busby & Associates, he was a Senior Managing Attorney with Legal Helpers, P.C., a national bankruptcy firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. While at Legal Helpers, Eric oversaw its regional offices and previously managed its Indianapolis, Indiana office.
Prior to the practice of law, Mr. Southward was a marketing manager with an advertising and marketing firm and a pharmaceutical research company, both based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Prior to that, he was a national account manager with magazine publishing services company based in Des Moines, Iowa.
Although raised and schooled in Iowa, Eric is a native Texan, born in Corpus Christi. He has re-joined his family, who all reside in the greater Houston area now. Mr. Southward received his undergraduate degree in 1992 from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa, and his law degree in 1999 from Indiana University.
Carlos A. Peniche, Board Certified – Civil Trial Law, Personal Injury Trial Law Texas Board of Legal Specialization
Carlos Peniche is bilingual, has over 60 jury verdicts and he has been licensed over 27 years.
He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), the Associated Security Services & Investigators of the State of Texas (ASSIST), the Cámara de Empresarios Latinos de Houston and is admitted to practice in the Federal Courts in the Southern District of Texas.
Carlos enlisted in the United States Navy as a yeoman from 1974-1976, returning to military service in the United States Army serving in the Judge Advocates Generals Corps (J.A.G.) from 1981-1984 and in the Army Reserves from 1985-1989.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Political Science from Washington & Lee University in 1978. He graduated from the University of Richmond (the TC Williams School of Law) in 1981.
Carlos has a background as varied and international as Houston and the great state of Texas. His father, Eduardo, was born in Progreso, Yucatan, in Mexico. Eduardo was a career soldier in the United States Army, serving as a 19 year old Mexican resident alien in the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge. Carlos is extremely proud that his Dad was awarded two Purple Hearts and the Bronze Star with Valor for his service in World War II.
His mother, Dean, was born in Lone Oak, Kentucky, near Paducah. She married Eduardo at age 18 and soon found herself far away in Taipei, Taiwan, where Eduardo was stationed to train Nationalist Chinese Army soldiers in anti-tank weaponry. That is where Carlos was born. As a result of being part of an Army family (Army kids affectionately refer to themselves as “Army brats”), Carlos lived in Vietnam for three years (1959-1962), including kindergarten and first grade, and in the Panama Canal Zone (1967-1969) Carlos’ wife Angela is from Honduras and nicely rounds out the international flavor to Carlos’ unique family background. They have a son together and Carlos has two other sons from a previous marriage.
Roberto Reyes
Roberto Reyes is a native of Alice, Texas. Roberto graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology and a Minor degree in Business Foundations from The University of Texas at Austin in May, 2003. During his undergraduate studies, Roberto served as an athletic trainer in the University of Texas athletic program, working with the Football, Men’s Track and Field and Women’s Tennis programs. Roberto also accumulated three Athletic Director’s Honor Roll Awards for the 2000, 2001 and 2002 academic years. Roberto graduated from The University of Tulsa School of Law in December, 2006.
Michael S. Rojas, Licensed in Texas and in Mexico
Michael S. Rojas, has over 25 jury verdicts and is one of very few Texas attorneys who have a dual license to practice law in Mexico and in Texas. He is a member of the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association and of the Family Law Section for the State Bar of Texas, the Cámara de Empresarios Latinos de Houston and is admitted to practice in Texas, the Federal Southern District of Texas, and in the country of Mexico.
Michael received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Political Science from the University of Houston. He then attended South Texas College of Law and graduated in the Spring of 1999.
While in law school in Houston, Michael lived and worked in Mexico during the summers of 1997 and 1998. This unique experience allowed him to learn, apply and appreciate the business and legal culture of Mexico in a way that would have never been possible otherwise. The seed for further formal study in Mexico was planted at this time.
After graduating from South Texas College of Law in 1999, Michael was placed on the fast track of insurance defense litigation by being in charge of a docket that always required him in jury trials. Here, Michael learned the “ins and outs” of what it means to try a case from beginning to end. This allowed him to try other cases regarding his true interest of international matters, such as, International Child Abduction issues under the Hague Convention in federal court as well as family legal issues pertaining to cross-border jurisdictional and substantive issues.
His mother, Maria del Carmen Rojas, was born in Camaguey, Cuba. She arrived from Cuba after Fidel Castro assumed power in 1961. She graduated high school in 1965 in San Antonio and married Alfred Schaefer, a High School Spanish and English Teacher, in 1969. She became a U.S. citizen at age 23. Michael was born in 1971 to Alfred and Carmen Schaefer in San Antonio, Texas. Michael married his wife in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico in 1999. His wife is now a U.S. citizen. They have two children born of the marriage and Michael has another daughter from a previous relationship.
Michael G. Busby Jr., atty; Jim Lesyna, atty; Carmen Luna, paralegal; Armanda G. Romero, paralegal; David Falcon, law clerk; Paula Meza, legal asst.; Debbie Roy, receptionist; Rosie Pena, paralegal; Susan Melendez, legal asst.
Principal Office
2909 Hillcroft, Suite 350
Houston, Texas 77057
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1804 Snake River Road, Suite C
Katy, TX 77449
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