Wife dropped the bomb; doing in house separation

[HopeTex]

Found a good lawyer, we had a short chat and will meet next Tuesday. He said to stay put in the house for now, he says that at some point they could get a judge to order me out of the house, but that would only be in conjunction with a broader temporary order on how to handle custody, finance etc. between now and the final decree. As I have read before husbands need to stay in the house until that temp order is negotiated and ordered. If you move out before, you are showing the judge you don't care about the house and don't care about the kids, the judge sees it as a type of abandonment. The judge says "What is the current situation? H is out of the house and W is taking care of the kids? Ok, well if that is what is working now we will leave things that way in the temp decree. ". The big problem is that if the final divorce details are decided by the judge, the judge might say "What is the current situation?" Etc etc. this is a big reason why husbands should not move out until there is some type of order making them,and also setting out other details.

Really looking forward to the meeting with L, I am hoping it I'll answer a lot of questions that keep me up at night. Even if the answers aren't great. Like: what % custody is realistic for me to get in Texas?

Will write more later....