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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 small 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.

Every fall, one parent walks into the first parent-teacher conference and the teacher says something like, "Nice to fina...
09/12/2026

Every fall, one parent walks into the first parent-teacher conference and the teacher says something like, "Nice to finally meet you." That sentence tells you who's been showing up.

Texas courts don't keep a scoreboard of attendance. But if a modification case ever opens, the judge has to weigh the child's best interest, and the parent asking for the change has to show something real has shifted since the last order. Involvement is part of that picture.

Sign in at the conference. Keep the email where you requested it. Attendance records and sign-in sheets are the kind of documents parents typically end up leaning on once fitness becomes a question in court.

If you want a second set of eyes on what your possession order actually requires this fall, call us: 214.469.3100.

09/08/2026

A summer report card arrives with a school name you don't recognize. That's the first clue your co-parent quietly enrolled your child somewhere new without telling you.

Here's what a lot of Texas parents don't realize: being a joint managing conservator usually means educational decisions belong to both of you. Where your child attends, whether they transfer, which district holds their records, these aren't calls one parent makes solo unless your order specifically grants that power to a single person. So no, a unilateral move doesn't just stand because someone acted first.

When one parent skips the shared decision, the other has options. A motion to enforce puts the violation in front of a judge. A modification request can revisit the arrangement entirely. Either way, the change made behind your back isn't the last word.

But the judge won't decide it on who sounds more sincere. Documentation wins these fights. Keep the enrollment paperwork, the dates the switch happened, the message announcing it, or the silence where a conversation should have been. Districts hold enrollment records long-term, so the proof exists whether or not you thought to save it.

Found out after the fact? We're here: 214.469.3100.

Your order didn't stop mattering the day it was signed.

Your phone buzzes right as the first bell rings, and your co-parent says the exchange isn't happening the way your order...
09/05/2026

Your phone buzzes right as the first bell rings, and your co-parent says the exchange isn't happening the way your order lays out.

That depends on which order you have. Under an Expanded Standard Possession Order, Texas law puts the pickup at school for school-day possession periods. Other standard orders typically run the exchange through a parent's home instead. Confirm which one governs your case before the first week of school, not after.

If an exchange gets missed, a parent can file a motion to enforce. Expedited hearings get set within 14 days. Remedies can include make-up possession, attorney's fees, and fines up to $500 per violation.

What holds up later are the records built: exchange logs, texts about who showed and when, school sign-in sheets. Parents typically end up leaning on exactly this kind of documentation once one missed pickup becomes a pattern.

Before that pattern goes undocumented, call us: 214.469.3100.

Frisco ISD and Plano ISD generally open new student registration in April or May, with returning student verification us...
09/01/2026

Frisco ISD and Plano ISD generally open new student registration in April or May, with returning student verification usually starting in July. To be listed as an official school contact for the year, that update typically needs to happen before the first day back. Not after.

Texas law generally lets both conservators see grades, talk to teachers, and get school notices, unless a court order says otherwise, even when only one parent holds the exclusive right to choose the school. Being marked as the 'primary' contact doesn't usually take that access away, but it can mean you're the second call, not the first.

Parents still getting the September newsletter are typically those who called the registrar in June, not those who assumed last year's form still counted.

If you want a second set of eyes on your school's contact paperwork before you turn it in, call us: 214.469.3100.

Your stomach drops when the school confirms your son's already registered somewhere you've never heard of.Enrolling firs...
08/29/2026

Your stomach drops when the school confirms your son's already registered somewhere you've never heard of.

Enrolling first doesn't move you ahead in a Texas custody case. The order already decided who makes that call, whether it's one parent alone or both of you together. Signing a registration form doesn't undo that.

What it can do is land the other parent in an enforcement filing. A judge can order the child pulled back out of that school, make them cover your attorney's fees, and hold them in contempt if the violation was willful. That's a separate fight, filed separately from who has the child and when.

I've seen parents treat an enrollment form like a finish line, then get blindsided months later when it never touched the custody order itself.

Before you respond to that registration, call us: 214.469.3100.

The registration form never carried that authority in the first place.

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.

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