{"id":1470,"date":"2019-11-20T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:00:01","slug":"texas-court-grants-grandparents-visitation-and-access-to-grandchildren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-grants-grandparents-visitation-and-access-to-grandchildren\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Court Grants Grandparents Visitation and Access to Grandchildren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under Texas family law, a court may grant grandparents reasonable possession and access to a grandchild if three conditions are met.\u00a0 First, at least one of the child\u2019s parents, whether adoptive or biological, must have parental rights to the child.\u00a0 Second, the grandparent must overcome the presumption the child\u2019s parent is acting in the child\u2019s best interest by showing that denying the grandparent possession or access would result in significant impairment to the child\u2019s health or well-being.\u00a0 Finally, the grandparent must be the parent of the child\u2019s parent, and that parent must have been incarcerated during the past three months, have been found incompetent, be deceased, or not have possession or access to the child. \u00a0TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. \u00a7 153.433.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/fifth-court-of-appeals\/2019-05-18-01474-cv.pdf?ts=1573726569\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent case<\/a>, a father challenged an order allowing the maternal grandparents possession and access to his children.\u00a0 The parents and children stayed with the grandparents while they looked for a house when they moved to Texas from California.\u00a0 The grandparents supported the family so the parents could save up to buy the home.\u00a0 After the parents bought a home nearby, the children regularly visited their grandparents, sometimes overnight.\u00a0 The grandparents would take the children to school and attend school functions. \u00a0The grandmother testified she felt she had assumed the role of parent.<\/p>\n<p>The grandmother testified both parents were alcoholics.\u00a0 The mother\u2019s friend testified the parents had a tense and unhealthy relationship.\u00a0 There was testimony that the mother sent the children to stay with the grandparents when the situation at home grew tense.\u00a0 The father\u2019s friend testified the father left the children with the grandparents when he went to bars and nudist colonies.\u00a0 He also testified the father told him he often argued with the mother, but did not state the arguments ever turned physical.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-court-grants-grandparents-visitation-and-access-to-grandchildren\/#more-1470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under Texas family law, a court may grant grandparents reasonable possession and access to a grandchild if three conditions are met.\u00a0 First, at least one of the child\u2019s parents, whether adoptive or biological, must have parental rights to the child.\u00a0 Second, the grandparent must overcome the presumption the child\u2019s parent is acting in the child\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-custody","category-grandparents-visitation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Texas Court Grants Grandparents Visitation and Access to Grandchildren &#8212; 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