Because of your calls, our bill, The Texas Parental Rights Restoration Act (TPRRA), will be heard on the floor of the Texas House on Thursday, May 9! However, parental rights are still in jeopardy until the bill passes. Parental Rights Advance If TPRRA does pass, people like Heather Wyatt won’t have to live in fear…
Legislative
Last week our board-certified family law attorney consultant and I spent several hours “negotiating” with attorneys and lobbyists representing the Texas Family Law Foundation (TFLF), trying to find some “common ground” between SB 1194 (the Texas Parental Rights Restoration Act [TPRRA]) and SB 1148 (a bill that would expand the number of situations in which…
Chassidie Russell lost her daughter for three years. For three years, it did not matter that Chassidie Russell was a fit mother. For three years, all that mattered was that Chassidie’s in-laws had the money to fight this legal battle. (Watch Chassidie tell her story here.) Loopholes in the Grandparent’s Access Statute allowed the judge…
The “Tim Tebow Bill” that would allow Texas home schooled students to take part in extracurricular activities in the public school district in which they reside passed out of the Texas Senate on Thursday. While news articles accurately say the bill passed on a 21-7 vote, that is not the whole story. If all members…
After the divorce, Wesley Brace opted to home school his young daughter, Alex. For him, this was the best way to invest in her life. His former wife, however, disagreed. She believed that home schooling would make Alex “weird” and she filed for full custody. That was twenty years ago. Because of your partnership and…
