{"id":1525,"date":"2020-02-26T09:30:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:38:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:38:37","slug":"texas-appeals-court-upholds-modification-allowing-unsupervised-visitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-upholds-modification-allowing-unsupervised-visitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Upholds Modification Allowing Unsupervised Visitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in a Texas custody case, the court may find it appropriate to place certain restrictions on a parent\u2019s access to the children.\u00a0 In time and with changed circumstances, it may be in the children\u2019s best interest to remove those restrictions to allow the children to spend more time with that parent.\u00a0 In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/thirteenth-court-of-appeals\/2020-13-19-00057-cv.pdf?ts=1579785421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent case<\/a>, a mother appealed an order modifying visitation.<\/p>\n<p>The parents had two children during their marriage.\u00a0 The mother moved to another town and filed for divorce.\u00a0 The decree required the father to use a Soberlink alcohol monitoring device before and during visitation.\u00a0 The court ordered the father\u2019s visitation would be supervised in Hidalgo County, but he would be allowed unsupervised visits beginning in August 2018 when the youngest child turned three.<\/p>\n<p>The mother petitioned to modify the parent-child relationship to postpone the unsupervised visits.\u00a0 She argued unsupervised visits were not in the children\u2019s best interest because the oldest child had significant speech delays and the younger child lacked emotional maturity.\u00a0 She also alleged the father failed one of his alcohol tests.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-upholds-modification-allowing-unsupervised-visitation\/#more-1525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes in a Texas custody case, the court may find it appropriate to place certain restrictions on a parent\u2019s access to the children.\u00a0 In time and with changed circumstances, it may be in the children\u2019s best interest to remove those restrictions to allow the children to spend more time with that parent.\u00a0 In a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-custody"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Appeals Court Upholds Modification Allowing Unsupervised Visitation &#8212; 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