Practice Areas

Family Law Practice

Family Law Attorneys – Plano, Texas

Allison | Johnson is a full service family law firm providing clients across North Texas with a range of customized solutions to resolving family law issues. Drawing upon a team approach that takes advantage of our attorneys' decades of legal experience, we provide clients with the options of traditional trial court representation, collaborative law or mediation, or settlement negotiation.

Contact our Plano or Dallas law office to learn more about how we can assist you.

Divorce Litigation: Representing clients in all aspects of divorce, including complex property distribution, complex custody disputes, support or alimony issues, and visitation issues.

Division of Marital Property:

• Determining the characterization of property (community property vs. separate property),
• Complex property solutions (valuation of businesses entities and other complex assets, analysis of options for division, and asset tracing to identify a client's separate property claims or to uncover assets),
• Issues surrounding retirement benefits and pension plans,
• Equitable distribution of all community property, and
• Retention of your separate property.

Child Custody and Parenting Plans: Assisting clients in the development of comprehensive parenting plans, allocation of parental rights, and issues related to moving children.

• Attorney Jody Johnson is a trained collaborative family law attorney and a member of the Dallas Alliance of Collaborative Family Lawyers.

Mediation: Representing clients in the process of mediation, an alternative dispute resolution method in which a neutral third party assists the parties in obtaining a resolution. In most cases the parties have their own attorneys present to advise and assist in negotiations.

• Jody Johnson is also an experienced family law mediator providing mediation services to clients and attorneys outside our firm.

Post-Divorce Modifications: Assisting clients seeking to change existing court orders regarding child custody, visitation, or support, as well as parental rights and obligations due to any significant change of circumstances.

International Custody Disputes and Child Abduction (Hague Convention): We aggressively pursue the safe return of your child, or oppose return to the child’s home country.

• For examples of cases in which the attorneys have successfully obtained orders to return a child to the home country please read:
• Hemard v. Hemard
• McAlpine v. McAlpine

Child Support: Helping clients with the establishment, modification, and enforcement and collection of support.

Enforcement of Divorce Decrees: Assisting clients with all family law court orders, such as transfer of assets, division of retirement benefits, health insurance coverage issues, and visitation rights.

Paternity: We facilitate the use of DNA technology to prove or disprove paternity claims and assist with child custody, visitation, and child support, if paternity is established.

Family Violence: Representing clients in need of protection, obtaining Protective Orders, and defending clients against false claims of violence, abuse or neglect.

Pre- and Post-Marital Property Agreements

Defense of Criminal Allegations Against Minors

At Allison | Johnson we are available to assist you with any family law matter. Contact us to schedule a confidential consultation.