Denton County, Texas, Child Custody Attorneys
Board Certified Child Custody Lawyers
Child custody can be one of the most contentious, emotional, and disputed issues that divorcing parents have to manage and resolve to finalize their divorce and final parenting plan. What final plans are ordered by the court either by agreement or trial can affect dramatically the relationships of everyone involved until the last child is emancipated. The divorce is the first and last time that every parent is on a totally level playing field. Most parents want what is best for their children. Too often, emotions can cloud a normally rational parents' judgment. With the right attorney, you can help ensure that your child custody outcome is indeed in the best interest of the child and meets your goals for that best interest.
At Neal, Ashmore & Killebrew, we assist in resolving child custodial and visitation issues for divorcing spouses or for parents who never married.
Contact Neal, Ashmore & Killebrew for caring, creative, family-oriented solutions that strive to minimize family disruption. Call 972-436-8000 or contact us online.
Experience Translates Into Results That Work for Your Children and You
All of our attorneys are passionate about family law and have practiced family law since leaving law school — some for more than 35 years. Over that time, just about every conceivable child custody matter has come our way. We continue to educate ourselves so that we can stay abreast of emerging issues in Texas child custody and family law that may affect our clients including being part of the legislative process as reviews of proposed new bills affecting families and working with our Texas legislators every two years in Austin when the legislative session is convened.
We have helped our clients in:
- Determining legal custody (who makes the major decisions for your child) and physical custody (where your child lives)
- Establishing joint or sole child custody
- Drafting parenting plans and determining visitation/possession rights
- Matters regarding child relocation / to other cities, states, and countries due to a host of factors not the least of which is re-marriage by one of the parents or employment changes due to marriage or employment changes
- Dealing with issues of parental alienation and loss of both quality and actual time with the parent's child during their growing up years
- Drafting and reviewing child support agreements that protect your interests and are in the best interests of your child
- Parent's rights issues relating to lifestyle or differences in raising children in today's world
- Modifying or enforcing divorce decrees
Is your divorce uncontested? Consider a collaborative divorce or a mediated divorce to reduce your divorce's negative impact on your children.
How Our Texas Child Custody Lawyers Are Different
Our attorneys do not just accept the standard procedure in child custody cases. We find ways to cut costs for our clients without cutting corners. Our cost-effective techniques range from using informal methods to settle disputes outside of the courtroom within the first weeks of the case being filed, unnecessary and costly to avoiding resisting when appropriate and possible, unnecessary and costly social studies and psychological exams.
Our law firm utilizes a total team approach to your family law case, beginning with the initial consultation. The attorney you initially see will always manage your case. However, our team approach and review allows us to proactively with your consent move the necessary tasks needed in your case to the staff member or attorney in our firm that can most economically to you achieve the goal you want to accomplish, which results in tremendous savings for you in the overall costs.
We also use counselors and a certified divorce planning specialist to gather information and solve emotional problems that may prevent finalization of a case. In more complicated, highly contested custody cases, we enlist and bring in for your benefit well-trained courtroom professionals to get you prepared for testifying in depositions and trials, prepare discovery and assist your attorney in document organization, saving you thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees.
Access Creative Solutions
To learn how we can assist you through a divorce, child custody, relocation, enforcement or other family law matter, contact the law office of Neal, Ashmore & Killebrew in Denton County at 972-436-8000.
