PER CURIAM. When a lawyer is or may be a witness necessary to establish an essential fact, Texas Disciplinary Rule of Professional Conduct 3.08 prohibits the lawyer from acting as both an advocate and a witness in an adjudicatory proceeding. In this divorce and child-custody dispute, the relator husband could not afford to pay his attorney and agreed to perform carpentry work on her…
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