Ana Marilín “Mari” Garza is Counsel with Warren Kalyan & Mattocks. For the last decade, Mari’s primary areas of practice have been in family law, estate planning, probate, and mediation. A skilled attorney, Mari has served as lead counsel and represented hundreds of parents in agreed cases, as well as in highly contested family law cases, including high asset divorces, suits affecting the parent-child relationship, paternity suits, non-parent interventions, modifications, enforcements, terminations, and adoptions. She has additionally served in roles focused on children, including as an Amicus Attorney, Attorney ad Litem, and Guardian ad Litem. In the realm of probate, she has represented hundreds of applicants in uncontested and contested probates and heirships, including on special issues and arguments concerning putative spouses, will contests, and testamentary capacity.

Mari is also an experienced mediator and has facilitated numerous settlement agreements in private family cases and child protection cases, working with the Department of Family and Protective Services - Child Protective Services in Hays and Caldwell Counties for several years.

Mari’s in-depth knowledge of the Texas Family Code and Texas Estates Code is further prompted by her life-long love of education and teaching. As an Assistant Professor at Texas State University, Mari has lectured for the last five years at the graduate level in the Legal Studies program in the following courses: Legal Research, Legal Drafting, Advanced Legal Research and Writing, Family Law, and Estates & Trusts.

With a passion for helping others, including access to justice and access to opportunities through education, Mari hopes to continue offering the highest level of legal representation to Warren Kalyan & Mattocks clients. Mari is fluent in Spanish. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two daughters.

Education
JD, SMU Dedman School of Law, 2013
MA, Texas State University, 2007
BA, Texas State University, 2006

Bar Admissions
Texas

Professional Associations
Member, Hays County Bar Association