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…
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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…
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…
The last few days in the Texas Legislature have seen movement on our Texas Parental Rights Restoration Act (TPRRA). On April 23 Sen. Royce West finally scheduled a hearing for the TPRRA bill (SB 1194 by Sen. Donna Campbell) in the Senate Committee on Jurisprudence as well as his bill (SB 1148), which would actually…
