Prepared to negotiate. Ready to try the case.
Busby & Associates is a Houston family law firm led by Michael G. Busby Jr. — Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, with more than 25 years of experience in the family and district courts of Harris and Fort Bend Counties. We return calls, keep clients informed, and keep our fees reasonable — an attorney who is both book-smart and street-smart.
Michael G. Busby Jr.
Board Certified Family Law Attorney · Houston, Texas
Clients deserve an attorney who is prepared to negotiate and ready to try the case — book-smart and street-smart, aggressive with the opposing party yet measured enough to resolve matters without needless litigation.
Michael G. Busby Jr. is a Houston attorney Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, with more than 25 years of experience and over 400 trials. He built his career in the family and district courts of Harris and Fort Bend Counties and the Office of the Attorney General child support courts, and has steadily extended that foundation into judgment enforcement and creditor’s rights.
Mr. Busby is the father of three — Viktoria, Hannah, and William "Billy Max." Service runs through the family: his oldest daughter is a veteran of the Texas Army National Guard, and his son has followed him into the Marine Corps, making three generations of Marines.
A Perspective Forged by Experience
Mr. Busby understands these cases from the inside. He was married for 32 years to his first wife, Miyuki X, with whom he raised three children. His second marriage, to Estefany X, was brief — though he had known her for five years before, and the courtship outlasted the marriage. He speaks of both women with gratitude and carries no bitterness. His view of partnership is plainspoken: he will neither control a partner nor be controlled, and he knows that to stand side by side with another person is, at times, the hardest work there is. That experience shapes a counsel that is practical rather than therapeutic — focused on co-parenting, firm boundaries, and moving forward rather than staying bound to what no longer serves you.
Family law remains central to his practice: divorce, both contested and uncontested; child custody and conservatorship; child support, including establishment, modification, enforcement, and collection; property and debt division; spousal maintenance; and modifications. The skills family law demanded — dividing property, valuing assets, tracing what a party owns, and collecting what a court has ordered — are the same skills that drive his collection and enforcement work.
He returns calls, keeps clients informed, and keeps his fees reasonable. He earned his Bachelor of Science with honors from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1996 and his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law in Houston, and has been licensed to practice law in Texas since 2002.
Before the law, he served his country.
Mr. Busby’s path to the courtroom ran through the gun line and a second profession entirely — a working philosophy earned long before law school: do the job in front of you, account for what others leave behind, and keep moving.
Enlisted at seventeen
He enlisted in the U.S. Army Reserve in December 1988 at age 17 as a 52-Delta, completing basic and advanced individual training before drilling out of Fort Chaffee, Arkansas.
Field artillery, Fleet Marine Force
After Marine recruit training in San Diego and field artillery school at Fort Sill, he served with the 4th Battalion, 12th Marines at Camp Foster, Okinawa — two tours in the Pacific — and later at Camp Lejeune with the 5th Battalion, 10th Marines, firing the M101 105mm and M198 155mm howitzers.
Three states, two more guns
He continued in the Army National Guard across Arkansas (11-Charlie indirect-fire infantry), Oklahoma (1st Battalion, 160th Field Artillery, M102 105mm), and North Carolina (1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery, M109 155mm self-propelled), before relocating to Texas for law school.
A licensed funeral director and embalmer
In the years before law, he apprenticed at Baggerley Funeral Home in Edmond, Oklahoma and practiced at Harry & Bryant Company in Charlotte — formerly licensed as a funeral director and embalmer in both Oklahoma and North Carolina.
A second-generation Marine, raising a third.
Service runs through the family. His son has followed him into the Marine Corps, and his oldest daughter is a veteran of the Texas Army National Guard — three generations bound by the same quiet ethic.
His father rests at Houston National Cemetery.
Weddings — and the Seal.
Mr. Busby is an ordained minister and performs wedding ceremonies. Some couples find a certain good luck in having a divorce lawyer marry them — and there is truth in the charm.
When Mr. Busby marries a couple, he binds himself: under the rules that govern lawyers, he is forever conflicted out of ever representing either spouse against the other. A divorce lawyer who, by marrying you, has made certain he will never divorce you.
Office or Zoom
Ceremonies performed at no charge in his office or by video call.
In person, elsewhere
For ceremonies in person within 100 miles of Houston.
Solstice, equinox & birthdays
Weddings held on a solstice, an equinox, or a birthday are always performed free of charge.
A short form is completed beforehand in every case, so that everyone understands the seal from the start.
Andrew Iwata
Associate Attorney · Family Law
Now fully committed to family law in Harris County and the surrounding counties, with a decade of litigation experience behind every case.
Andrew Iwata is a member of the State Bar of Texas and the Houston Bar Association, and is admitted to practice in the Federal Courts for the Southern, Northern, and Eastern Districts of Texas.
Mr. Iwata graduated from the University of St. Thomas in Houston with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, then earned his Juris Doctor from South Texas College of Law. He practiced for nearly a decade in employment law and business litigation before joining the family law department of Busby & Associates as an Associate in 2015.
That litigation background gives him a broad command of procedure and courtroom strategy — experience he now brings entirely to family law matters across Harris County and the surrounding counties.
Award-winning Houston family law attorneys.
We are proud to be recognized as award-winning divorce and family law attorneys in Houston, Texas. Our lawyers have earned this recognition through years of dedicated advocacy, with more than 400 family law and divorce cases tried over more than 25 years of practice.
In addition to these honors, Expertise.com has featured our firm with an A+ rating for reputation and professionalism — reflecting our continued commitment to excellence and client service.
