Family Law

Family Law Services Perfectly Tailored to your Personal Needs. Serving McKinney, Greenville TX, and Surrounding Areas.

When facing legal matters affecting your family, you need prompt, compassionate, experienced representation. At Scott, Ray, Pemberton & Goll, PLLC, we are here to help.

From our offices in Greenville and McKinney, we use more than 40 years of experience to assist our family law clients in Greenville, Rockwall, McKinney, Frisco, Prosper, Celina, and the surrounding communities. We know how difficult these situations can be, and our team is dedicated to resolving the matters as efficiently and effectively as possible. Your attorney will be by your side every step of the way.

Family Law FAQs

Types of Family Law Cases

Our lawyers offer representation in a wide variety of family law matters, including:

Divorce: Whether you are involved in an uncontested divorce or an emotionally charged contested divorce, straightforward divorce, or complex high-asset divorce, we handle all types of divorce matters.

Child custody: Our firm takes the time to explain the different types of child custody arrangements and assesses which one may suit your needs while in the children’s best interests.

Child support: Unless otherwise agreed upon, the noncustodial parent will likely be ordered to pay child support based on the number of children and other factors, which our firm can explain based on your specific case.

Property division: We will help you understand how Texas community property laws affect your marital assets and property division.

Alimony (spousal support): While not every divorce involves alimony payments from one spouse to the other, your lawyer can evaluate your situation and determine what your rights and obligations are.

How Division of Property is Handled

Texas is a community property state, meaning any assets or property obtained after marriage are considered community property. This means they are subject to division in the property division part of the divorce. Typically divided as close to 50-50 as possible, some assets that are subject to division include: