The Law Offices of Bethany S. Stephens

04/20/2026

In addition to the common areas of Family Law (divorce, custody, etc.) and State Criminal Defense, I also practice the highly specialized areas of Appellate Law (contact me within 30 days after your final trial) and Federal Criminal Defense. Contact me for a FREE 20 minute telephone consultation. You will be dealing directly with me -- not a secretary or paralegal. 940-937-4050 or email [email protected]

Family lawyer and Criminal Defense attorney in the Red River Region. Former Dallas attorney offering services from Wichita Falls to Amarillo.

10/13/2025

Speaking of Christopher Columbus…

10/08/2025

Female su***de rates dropped by 8-20% and domestic violence decreased by around 30% after implementation of no-fault divorce laws in the U.S.

08/18/2025

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06/28/2025

06/14/2025

It would be a shame if the protesters began making their signs out of quarter-inch-thick plywood to stop rubber bullets, forming a tight shield wall to prevent police from singling out and mobbing individual protesters. It would be a shame if the people behind the shield wall held up umbrellas so that tear gas canisters fired over their heads on the front line will be bounced away. It would be a shame if protesters began constructing improvised armor vests out of duct tape, hard-backed books, and ceramic tiles.

It would be a shame if protesters started wearing safety glasses, hard hats, respirators, and gardening gloves, all of which can be found at the same hardware stores as the plywood. It would be a shame if they started using traffic cones (the kind without the hole in the top), upside down buckets, or other improvised lids to contain teargas by placing them over the canisters.

It would be a shame if protesters learned that police scanners are legal to own in the US, allowing them to learn where police are moving, and what routes they intend to take. It would be a shame if they discovered that these scanners can be used to send as well as receive, allowing them to flood the scanner frequencies with noise.

All of this would be a terrible, terrible shame.

*It would be an awful shame if you copied and pasted this, so that they couldn’t delete the original and all linked posts (again).

**An even worse shame would be to start donating these items to protesters.

05/20/2025

No warrant = door stays closed. Questions can be asked through doorbell camera or by phone or through lawyer.

05/13/2025

In Oklahoma, unidentified mask agents broke into a house at night and terrorized and stole from the wrong people because they thought someone else lived there. There is a reason “no-knock” warrants are disfavored and must be preapproved by courts — because if the US citizen homeowner had shot and killed the masked and unidentified assailants who broke into her home, well, I don’t think any jury would convict and I doubt any grand jury would even indict to begin with. Now, in the video of the debacle in Massachusetts (see below), an entire neighborhood responded to another violent debacle started by cops you can see a big white male cop assault a female bystander — and then immediately ARREST HER for assault. There is a reason cops have to wear body cameras. There is no other group of people who lie so consistently or so constantly. After 20 years in the criminal justice system, I can assure you that actual felons are far more honest than 99% of cops. Stop blindly believing those who would gleefully do violence to you without question if they were ordered to do so.