The McKay Law Group, APC
San Diego Divorce Attorneys
Attorneys
The McKay Law Group is committed to providing you with top notch legal support. We approach every client with a focus on integrity, advocacy, and understanding. We fight for you!
Iris McKay
Edward Castro
Legal Specialization
Angel Lawrence
- As a member of the California State Bar since 1994, Iris McKay has handled over 600 divorce cases, as a litigator or as a mediating attorney. She is also a San Diego County Pro tem settlement judge.
- In May 2006, she was named a semifinalist by San Diego County's legal newspaper, The Daily Transcript, as one of San Diego's top divorce attorneys.
- Ms. McKay is a member of the following organizations: California Bar Association, American Bar Association, San Diego County Bar Association, Lawyer's Club, San Diego County Bar Foundation, Employee Assistance Professional Association.
- An active supporter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Ronald McDonald House, Foundation For Woman and Ms. McKay is also a member of Team in Training.
- J.D., Western State University
Edward Castro
- Ed Castro
has devoted his entire legal career to the practice of family law in
San Diego County. Upon graduating from law school, Mr. Castro
initially focused his practice in the area of domestic violence
litigation, wherein he worked with the San Diego Volunteer Lawyers
Program to supervise their East County Courthouse clinic; in doing so,
Mr. Castro substantially increased the capacity of that clinic to
assist litigants through the family court system.
- Subsequently, again in association with SDVLP, Mr. Castro supervised and coordinated the courthouse-based Family Law Access Project, a high volume family law and mediation clinic providing legal advice and assistance to unrepresented litigants; again, in that capacity, Mr. Castro substantially increased that program’s capacity to assist unrepresented litigants through the family law process.
- Thereafter,
Mr. Castro joined the YWCA Legal Advocacy Program as their family law
litigator, representing clients in a diverse range of family law
matters, including divorce and paternity actions, high conflict child
custody disputes, child and spousal support applications, division of
complex community property estates, contested domestic violence
restraining requests, and appellate review of family court decisions.
- Shortly after having the opportunity to work and associate with Iris McKay as co-counsel during a particularly complex, lengthy and contentious custody trial, Mr. Castro decided to join talents with Ms. McKay at The McKay Law Group as a Senior Attorney.
- J.D., University of San Diego School of Law
Legal Specialization
- B.A., Yale University
Angel Lawrence
- At The McKay Law Group, Ms. Lawrence directly handles an array of family law issues, including: dissolution, legal separation, restraining orders, child custody issues, child and spousal support, and property division.
- Prior to joining The McKay Law Group, Ms. Lawrence interned at the YWCA Legal Advocacy Program assisting clients in a diverse range of complex family law matters, including dissolution, custody and support, governmental enforcement, estate division, restraining orders, and appellate review.Ms. Lawrence has also volunteered at the San Diego Domestic Violence Clinic where she assisted unrepresented litigants in obtaining domestic violence restraining orders. Additionally, Ms. Lawrence volunteered legal assistance for the San Diego Animal Advocates.
- While in law school, Ms. Lawrence was a member of the San Diego Law Review and a recipient of the Dean's Outstanding Scholarship.
- Ms. Lawrence is a member of the California State Bar Association, the San Diego Lawyer's Club. She has also previously been a member of the Animal Legal Defense Fund and a contributor to the Woman's Resource Fair.
- J.D., University of San Diego School of Law
- B.A., Southern Methodist University
