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If Your Son Just Drowned in a Retention Pond, Read This Before You Talk to Anyone Else We are sorry. There is no other honest way to open this page, and we will not pretend that any words we write can do what is needed right now. A 15-year-old boy went into a flooded retention pond in Magnolia on the evening of June 16, 2026, and he did not come out. If you are reading this within hours or days of that phone call — or the knock on the door — you are likely sitting in a house full of people who love you and have no idea what to say, and your phone is ringing with numbers you do not recognize. Some of those calls will be from other lawyers. Some will be from the news media. And some — the ones that sound the most caring — will be from insurance adjusters for the developer, the general contractor, the engineering firm, or the property owner. The adjuster will call this a "check-in." It is not a check-in. It is the first move in a playbook that is running right now, while you read this. The adjuster is trying to lock in your version of events before you have had time to understand that this was preventable, that the law gives your family an answer, and that you do not have to face any of this alone. Here is what we want you to hear in the first…