{"id":2718,"date":"2023-07-14T19:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:33:25","slug":"make-up-time-in-texas-possession-and-access-enforcement-actions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/make-up-time-in-texas-possession-and-access-enforcement-actions\/","title":{"rendered":"Make-Up Time in Texas Possession and Access Enforcement Actions"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a parent is denied court-ordered possession or access by the other parent, the court has discretion to order additional periods of possession or access to make up for that time.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 157.168. These additional periods of possession of access must be the same type and duration as what was denied, may include weekends, holidays, and summer, and must happen by the second anniversary of the date possession or access was denied.\u00a0 A father recently challenged<\/a> an enforcement order that did not award him make-up time for the time he was denied.<\/p>\n

When the parties divorced, the court appointed them joint managing conservators of the children and granted them equal possession and joint authority for decision-making.<\/p>\n

Enforcement Action<\/strong><\/p>\n

The father filed an enforcement motion in September 2020, alleging the mother failed to turn the children over to him twice.\u00a0 He make-up time as well as attorney\u2019s fees and costs.\u00a0 He subsequently added twelve more alleged violations occurring after his original enforcement motion was filed.\u00a0 He also alleged the mother did not get his agreement or inform him that the daughter changed schools.<\/p>\n

Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a parent is denied court-ordered possession or access by the other parent, the court has discretion to order additional periods of possession or access to make up for that time.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 157.168. 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