Cristi Trusler founded Trusler Legal PLLC in 2001 and has practiced family law in Travis County since 2001. She is Board Certified in Family Law and in Child Welfare Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and Master Credentialed in Collaborative Divorce by Collaborative Divorce Texas. The firm she built is settlement-first by design, court-capable by training, and small by choice.
The collaborative divorce practice in Central Texas was, in 2002, mostly an idea. A handful of family lawyers had heard of it, fewer had tried it, and the institutional muscle for resolving a marriage outside a courtroom did not yet exist in Travis County. Cristi was one of the early practitioners. More than two decades later, the firm handles cases in collaborative law, mediated negotiation, and trial preparation across Travis and the surrounding Central Texas counties: Travis, Williamson, Hays, Comal, Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Llano, and Caldwell.
The conviction that holds the practice together is unfashionable in family law: no family situation has ever improved at the courthouse. The courthouse assigns consequences. It does not design futures. So the firm works to keep matters out of the place that was never built for them. When a trial is necessary, we are ready. The years of preparation that go into trial readiness are a large part of why most matters never have to use it.
Cristi is licensed to practice law in Texas (since 1997), Utah, and Colorado. She has been selected to Super Lawyers, 2022–2026; Rising Stars, 2008–2009.
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