A Parental Rights Bill in Texas HB 2756
Texas has an opportunity to become the first state to pass a law that is closer than any other state law to truly integrating constitutional parental rights protections language into their Family Code. On Wednesday the JJFI committee will be hearing public comment on a parental rights protection bill, HB 2756. This bill is great…
Texas Holding Public Hearing on Proposed Gender Identity Bill
Texas lawmakers are considering a gender identity bill that would protect parents who do or do not want their children to identify as a gender other than the one they were born with. Both parents beliefs are protected and cannot be punished. For parents like Jeffrey Younger who has refused to affirm his son’s gender…
Texas is leading the states with protection of parental rights proposed bills for 2019!
Texas legislators are listening and responding to parents complaints that their children have been harmed by violations of their parental rights where the courts have been using statutes the legislators passed to violate fundamental rights of children and their parents unconstitutionally. To correct this problem several proposed bills have been introduced by Senator Hughes and…
TEXAS JUDGES STRIPPING CHILDREN OF THEIR FIT PARENTS – Study shows Gender Bias in Texas Family Courts
A recent Texas study found that 87% of the time in a divorce or child custody suit action a child is being stripped of one of their parents and 93% of the time the mother was picked as the primary parent. Despite the public policy of Texas that parents have maximum time with their children…
Texas Judge Says Texas Family Code’s Default is Equal Custody
Does the Texas Family Code Already Call for Equal Custody? Did you know that the Texas legislature intended the family code to be equal custody for fit parents? It is true that the code does not require a judge to order equal custody if it is not in the best interest of the child, but…
Should a Jury be Required in Family Law Cases?
JUDGE VERSUS JURIES IN FAMILY LAW This topic has been thrown around quite a bit lately among parents in family law reform. Some states allow jury trials in family law and some do not. The issues that Catherine MacWillie of Custody Calculations discusses in this podcast is whether family law cases should be heard by…
How do You Get Equal Custody in Texas?
Justice Puryear says the Standard of Proof and the Standard of Evidence for SAPCR between fit parents is too Low in the Texas Family Code. The Policy Center found that as far back as 2005, an appellate court judge said that the Texas Family Code’s preponderance of the evidence standard was too low and should…