Lindsey Obenhaus

About Lindsey Obenhaus

Lindsey Obenhaus represents successful professionals, business owners, and their spouses in financially complex divorces and contested custody matters. A partner at Goranson Bain Ausley, she is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst® (CDFA®). She combines sophisticated legal experience with specialized financial knowledge and strong litigation skills to help clients protect their interests and plan for the future.

Lindsey has particular experience representing accomplished women and working mothers, including executives, physicians, entrepreneurs, and attorneys. Whether a client built the family’s wealth or is married to a high-earning professional, Lindsey helps her clients understand the financial picture, anticipate potential disputes and prepare for the next chapter. She understands the challenges of divorce when significant assets, demanding careers, and parenting responsibilities are at stake.

Lindsey handles complex divorces involving business valuations, executive compensation, and substantial marital assets. Her CDFA® certification adds a valuable financial perspective to her legal counsel, particularly when evaluating the tax considerations, retirement assets, and long-term implications of settlement options. She works with forensic accountants and other experts when necessary to evaluate assets and strengthen her clients’ positions.

A former Dallas County family violence prosecutor, Lindsey brings extensive courtroom experience to contested custody and high-conflict divorce cases, including matters involving domestic violence, addiction, and difficult parenting disputes.

Lindsey believes preparation gives clients greater confidence and control. She takes time to understand their priorities, explain their options, and help them evaluate the financial and personal consequences of important decisions. She pursues practical resolutions through settlement, collaborative law, and mediation, but remains prepared to litigate when necessary.

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What Sets Her Apart

• Board Certified Family Law Attorney and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®. Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 2019, Lindsey also holds the CDFA® designation, combining advanced legal qualifications with specialized knowledge of the financial complexities of divorce.
• Experience Representing Successful Women. Lindsey understands the financial and parenting concerns of high-earning women and spouses of successful professionals. She helps clients navigate complex property issues, protect their financial interests and address custody questions arising from demanding careers.
• Sophisticated Property Division Experience. Lindsey handles substantial marital estates involving closely held businesses, real estate, investments and executive compensation. She works with financial experts to investigate disputed assets and prepare complex cases for negotiation or trial.
• Experienced Litigator and Former Family Violence Prosecutor. Her experience in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Protective Order Unit and Family Violence divisions informs her approach to contested custody, high-conflict divorce, and cases involving safety concerns.
• Personal Attention and Candid Advice. Lindsey prepares clients for the decisions ahead through detailed planning meetings, clear communication and realistic guidance. She considers the long-term financial and family consequences of each decision, including the cost of litigation.
• Professional Recognition and Leadership. A Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Family Lawyers, Lindsey is a frequent author and speaker on complex family law matters.

Practice Focus

Lindsey represents clients in complex divorce, property division, and contested custody matters, with particular experience advising successful women, business owners, and working parents.

• Financial Analysis in Divorce. As a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst®, Lindsey brings specialized financial knowledge to complex divorce matters, helping clients assess tax implications, retirement assets, and the long-term financial consequences of property division and settlement decisions.
• High Net Worth Divorce. Lindsey represents business owners, executives, professionals and their spouses in divorces involving substantial marital estates, helping them protect their financial interests and plan for the future.
• Complex Property. She handles the division of businesses, investment portfolios, real estate, retirement assets and executive compensation, including cases requiring forensic accounting and financial analysis.
• Characterization of Separate and Community Property. Lindsey traces assets through complex financial histories to evaluate separate-property claims and determine how property should be characterized.
• Business Valuation in Divorce. Working with valuation experts, Lindsey represents business owners and non-owner spouses when a closely held business or professional practice is part of the marital estate.
• Child Custody. Lindsey helps parents resolve conservatorship and possession disputes, including cases involving demanding careers, complicated parenting arrangements and concerns about children’s well-being.
• Mental Health and Addiction in Divorce. She represents clients in sensitive cases involving substance abuse, mental health concerns and questions about parenting and child safety.
• High-Conflict Divorce. Drawing on her prosecution and litigation background, Lindsey develops strategies for contentious cases involving domestic violence, disputed assets and difficult family dynamics.

Representative Matters

• Secured Equal Custody and Financial Protections for Business Owner Facing Informal Marriage Allegations: Obtained a 50/50 custody ruling for a successful business owner and father, while defeating allegations of informal marriage that threatened his separate estate.
• Achieved Favorable Custody and Property Outcome for Physician Facing Narcissistic Spouse: Represented a high-earning female physician in a contentious custody and property dispute against her former spouse with narcissistic tendencies. Despite aggressive litigation tactics by the opposing side, Lindsey secured a favorable custody arrangement and protected her client’s financial interests.
• Guided Professional Athletes and Their Spouses Through Complex Divorce and Custody Matters: Represented multiple professional athletes and their spouses in high-conflict divorces involving significant financial assets, endorsement income, and sensitive public exposure. Successfully navigated complex custody arrangements and protected clients’ privacy and brand value while achieving favorable outcomes.
• Preserved Multi-Million-Dollar Estate in High-Stakes Divorce Involving Real Estate Holdings: Successfully represented the wife of a prominent real estate investor in a high-net-worth divorce. Secured a favorable valuation of the husband’s extensive investment portfolio and achieved a disproportionate division of property based on evidence of adultery.
• Protected Longstanding Separate Property in Contentious Characterization Battle: Defended a wife’s substantial separate property accounts traced back several decades during a divorce involving a multimillion-dollar Lakewood estate. Overcame extensive challenges to characterization and manipulation by her former spouse to preserve financial independence.

Recognition and Credentials

Lindsey has been named one of D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas every year since 2021 and recognized by The Best Lawyers in America in Family Law every year since 2024, following her selection to Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in 2021 and 2022. She was selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list in 2024, 2025, and 2026, following recognition as a Rising Star. She was also named to Lawdragon’s 2027 list of 500 Leading Family Lawyers. Doyle’s Guide recognized her among the leading family, matrimonial, and divorce lawyers in Dallas/Fort Worth in 2026.

Lindsey is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and the International Academy of Family Lawyers. She serves on the State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charges Committee and the Texas Family Law Foundation’s Bill Review Committee, was selected to the 2021–2022 LeadershipSBOT class, and is a Credentialed Mediator through the University of Texas School of Law.

A frequent author and speaker, Lindsey contributes to continuing legal education on complex property, custody, family violence, and litigation. She serves on the planning committee for the 2026 Marriage Dissolution Institute, presented at the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers’ 2025 National Family Law Conference, and guest lectures at SMU Dedman School of Law.

Beyond the Practice

A Dallas native, Lindsey attended the Hockaday School before graduating magna cum laude with high honors from Vanderbilt University and earning her law degree from SMU Dedman School of Law. She is a busy mother of two boys, an avid runner who has completed numerous half and full marathons, and an avid reader.