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In the decades leading up to the 1970s child custody battles were rare, and in most cases the mother of minor children would receive custody. [5] Since the 1970s, as custody laws have been made gender-neutral, contested custody cases have increased as have cases in which the children are placed in the primary custody of the father.
HB1207 by was filed on February 9, 2011, and referred to the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence committee. [25] [26] The bill was left pending in committee. However, the law on which UCAPA is based—Texas's Prevent International Parental Child Abduction Act—had already been enacted in 2003 as Texas Family Code 153.501-503.
The committee structure below is valid for the 88th Legislature (numbers in parentheses are the number of committee members; under House rules 1/2 of each committee's membership is determined by seniority and the remaining 1/2 by the Speaker of the House, excluding Procedural Committees [note 1] the membership of which are wholly chosen by the ...
A Houston, Texas, man was ordered to pay $65,000 in child support to his ex-girlfriend for a child he did not biologically father, ... Texas' family code, chapter 161, ...
This week a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law that requires minors in the state to get parental permission to access contraception through a federally funded family planning program known ...
Most committees are additionally subdivided into subcommittees, each with its own leadership selected according to the full committee's rules. [3] [4] The only standing committee with no subcommittees is the Budget Committee. The modern House committees were brought into existence through the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946. This bill ...
As of June 20, 2020, the Senate had 16 standing committees and the House had 20 standing committees. [5] (The count is for standing committees only and does not include select or special committees or joint committees. See those articles for that information.)
A proposed Texas law that would criminalize medical child abuse has been approved by a House committee after a hearing last week that included testimony from the Tarrant County sheriff.. The ...