{"id":1688,"date":"2020-10-12T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2020-10-12T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T13:00:09","slug":"material-and-substantial-change-must-be-related-to-requested-texas-custody-modification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/material-and-substantial-change-must-be-related-to-requested-texas-custody-modification\/","title":{"rendered":"Material and Substantial Change Must Be Related to Requested Texas Custody Modification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a parent seeks modification of Texas custody order, he or she must a substantial and material change in circumstances since the previous order.\u00a0 Generally, the change must be material to the modification the parent is requesting.\u00a0 A mother recently <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/first-court-of-appeals\/2020-01-19-00481-cv.pdf?ts=1601381859\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appealed<\/a> a custody order modification allowing the father to have unsupervised visits, arguing he had not shown a material and substantial change in circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The mother filed a Suit Affecting Parent Child Relationship (SAPCR) asking the court to limit the father\u2019s access to their daughter after he received a DWI in 2012.\u00a0 Her affidavit detailed a number of events related to the father\u2019s intoxication during the marriage.\u00a0 She asked to be named sole managing conservator.\u00a0 She also asked that the father be allowed only supervised visitation and that he be prohibited from drinking for 12 hours before and during the visitation.<\/p>\n<p>The father was from Canada and had returned there.\u00a0 He did not contest the suit and a default judgment was entered.\u00a0 It named the mother sole managing conservator and limited the father to supervised visitation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/material-and-substantial-change-must-be-related-to-requested-texas-custody-modification\/#more-1688\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a parent seeks modification of Texas custody order, he or she must a substantial and material change in circumstances since the previous order.\u00a0 Generally, the change must be material to the modification the parent is requesting.\u00a0 A mother recently appealed a custody order modification allowing the father to have unsupervised visits, arguing he had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1688","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>Material and Substantial Change Must Be Related to Requested Texas Custody Modification &#8212; 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