Scroggins Law Group, PLLC

Scroggins Law Group, PLLC Scroggins Law Group is a family law trial firm serving individuals throughout North Texas. We don't believe in one-size fits all or cookie-cutter approaches.

We are big enough to handle the largest family law matters, yet small enough to remember your name. Scroggins Law Group represents people throughout North Texas in divorce, complex property division and child custody matters. With offices in Frisco and Dallas led by Board Certified Family Law Specialists, we are big enough to handle the most complex family law matter that you can imagine, yet smal

l enough that we know you by name. Aggressive and creative, we partner with our clients to derive the best possible results based on the particulars of their case.

Your phone used to ping every spring: send the Thursday election letter. This year the reminder never went off, and the ...
08/26/2026

Your phone used to ping every spring: send the Thursday election letter. This year the reminder never went off, and the deadline came and went without anyone noticing.

Texas gives possessory conservators the first, third, and fifth weekend starting at 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday, unless a judge ordered otherwise. The bigger version, picking up right at school dismissal instead of after dinner, takes a written election. The first time, notice must reach the other parent at least 14 days before the order is signed. Then, most court orders set their own yearly deadline, commonly around April 1, depending on your decree.

The parents who keep a copy of that election letter are the ones who still have that Thursday pickup next August. It doesn't renew itself just because it worked last year.

Call us to check whether this year's election deadline already passed: 214.469.3100. Then keep the letter somewhere you can find it next spring.

Work backward from the first day of class, not forward from today.A school change can be enough to reopen a Texas custod...
08/15/2026

Work backward from the first day of class, not forward from today.

A school change can be enough to reopen a Texas custody order—but only if it genuinely alters the child's daily life. Texas requires two things: a material and substantial change since the order was signed, and that the modification serves this child.

Here's the calendar math parents miss. Filing, service, mediation (often required before a contested hearing), and a hearing slot stack up fast. Summer dockets fill quickly. A June phone call is already tight for an August start. An agreed order moves faster than anything contested.

If the school situation changed this spring, the useful window is now.

Call us: 214.469.3100.

Your new spouse starts picking the kids up from school, and swapping weekends feels easier with another adult in the hou...
08/12/2026

Your new spouse starts picking the kids up from school, and swapping weekends feels easier with another adult in the house. None of it counts.

Remarriage tends to shift the small things: school pickup, who handles homework, whose car the kids ride home in. Parents work it out between themselves for months, sometimes longer, until one disagreement sends someone back to the original order. That order is still what a judge enforces, no matter how long the new routine has been running.

In Texas, only a new order signed by a judge changes conservatorship, possession, or access. A verbal understanding, even one both of you meant seriously, doesn't touch the paperwork. The old schedule stays fully enforceable the entire time you're quietly doing something else.

The earlier you formalize a change that's actually working, the fewer options you lose. Call us: 214.469.3100.

Texting your ex "let's just switch weekends, no big deal" feels like it settles things. Legally, it settles nothing.In T...
08/09/2026

Texting your ex "let's just switch weekends, no big deal" feels like it settles things. Legally, it settles nothing.

In Texas, only a judge's signature on a new order can change who has the child and when. Not a text thread, not a handshake, not even a written agreement the two of you signed yourselves. The original order stays fully enforceable, which means either parent can still hold the other to the old schedule months after everyone quietly started doing it differently.

When an arrangement like that needs to become permanent, the process starts with a specific filing: a Petition to Modify the Parent-Child Relationship, submitted to the same Texas court that issued your last custody order. Once it's filed, the court clerk issues a citation, and your ex has to be formally served with it. Not a phone call.

Before an unwritten arrangement turns into an enforcement problem for you, call us: 214.469.3100.

When spouses complete the Inventory and Appraisement, the conversation usually gravitates toward numbers. What's the hou...
08/01/2026

When spouses complete the Inventory and Appraisement, the conversation usually gravitates toward numbers. What's the house worth? What's in the retirement account?

The harder column is the one that determines whether any of it is even subject to division.

Texas Family Code § 3.003 presumes everything in either spouse's possession at dissolution is community property. That presumption doesn't yield to a confident assertion, it yields to documentation that traces an asset back to its origin without gaps.

That standard matters more than most people realize. "Clear and convincing" sits above the ordinary civil burden of proof, and the spouse claiming separate property carries it entirely.

In Collin County, the I&A is typically due before mediation begins. What gets filed at that stage shapes the entire trajectory. Call us before you file yours: 214.469.3100.

The column skipped most often on the Inventory and Appraisement isn't the value column, it's the characterization column...
07/29/2026

The column skipped most often on the Inventory and Appraisement isn't the value column, it's the characterization column. And leaving it vague is one of the more consequential mistakes in a Collin County divorce.

Texas law draws a hard line between community and separate property. But characterization isn't self-executing. Characterization requires proof: documentation tracing the origin of funds, timing of acquisition, and chain of title.

Texas Family Code § 3.003 puts the burden on the spouse claiming separate property. The presumption runs the other way, and overcoming it requires clear and convincing evidence. A general recollection or uncontested assertion usually isn't enough when the other side pushes back.

The I&A is a sworn document.

Getting characterization right the first time isn't a formality. It's the work. Call us before you file: 214.469.3100.

RSU grant agreements rarely get pulled until discovery forces it. By then, the window to shape how those assets get char...
07/26/2026

RSU grant agreements rarely get pulled until discovery forces it. By then, the window to shape how those assets get characterized has usually closed.

Here's what that looks like: a spouse has RSUs from grants that started before the marriage and kept vesting through it. Some shares are community property. Some aren't. The split depends on the grant date, the vesting schedule, and the apportionment math the court applies. The grant agreement is what makes that math possible, without it, you're guessing at numbers you're supposed to be swearing to.

The Inventory and Appraisement must list unvested RSUs too, not just shares already in the account. Leaving them off because they haven't vested yet is one of the more costly omissions in a high-net-worth Collin County divorce.

If you haven't located the grant agreements yet, that's where to start. Call us: 214.469.3100.

You didn't miss a pickup. You were ten minutes late because of traffic, and you texted ahead. That's not the story you w...
07/16/2026

You didn't miss a pickup. You were ten minutes late because of traffic, and you texted ahead. That's not the story you want to tell from memory six months later.

Modification cases in Texas require showing a material and substantial change in circumstances since the original order was signed. Judges don't apply a checklist, they weigh the totality of what's in front of them. And what's in front of them is whatever each parent brought in to document their side.

Here's the gap I see repeatedly: one parent has been quietly keeping records, timestamped messages, pickup logs, notes from pediatric visits and teacher conferences. The other parent has a general sense of how things have gone.

If your current order isn't reflecting how your family actually functions, let's talk about what a modification would require: 214.469.3100.

Your 13-year-old says they don't want to go to the other parent's house anymore. You might think they're old enough to h...
07/12/2026

Your 13-year-old says they don't want to go to the other parent's house anymore. You might think they're old enough to have a say.

Texas law does give children 12 and older a private interview with the judge. When a party requests it in a nonjury case, that interview is required. But it gives your child a voice, not a vote. The judge listens and then decides what arrangement serves the child's best interest. The interview doesn't bind the outcome.

The earlier in a contested matter you address this, the more options you have. Call us: 214.469.3100.

The Frisco ISD enrollment packet feels like a school task. It isn't.Which parent signs it, and at which address, can bec...
07/09/2026

The Frisco ISD enrollment packet feels like a school task. It isn't.

Which parent signs it, and at which address, can become evidence in a pending conservatorship dispute. The right to enroll a child in school is allocated in the custody order, and depending on the order language, acting unilaterally on that right may complicate where things stand with the court.

Texas law presumes both parents should share legal authority over their child's life. But shared authority and possession time are two different questions, and the enrollment form sits right at the intersection of both.

The cases where I see this go sideways are the ones where a parent treated a school form like an administrative task and found out later it wasn't. If you want a second set of eyes on your order before the school year starts, call us: 214.469.3100.

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