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Happy New Year! What are we doing about Standard Visitation for January?

Tuesday, January 8th, 2013

Okay, January is here and it is 2013!  What do we have on tap for our weekend and Thursday periods of possession this month?  Let’s see:

Weekend possessions – If your child returned to school yesterday or today (which most did), then the first weekend of the month would have been trumped by the Christmas holiday possession.  Therefore the first weekend possession this month will be January 18th (3rd Friday of the month).  There is no fifth Friday this month, so only one weekend of standard possession this month.  But wait!  There’s more…if your child is released from school for the Martin Luther King holiday, then the provision for extended weekends will apply.  That holiday is the Monday following the standard possession weekend.

In quick review, if MLK day is a holiday for your child and your possession ends at 6:00 p.m. on a typical Sunday, then your possession will now end at 6:00 p.m. on Monday.  This is all assuming that you have that provision in your decree.  Check in the visitation section for the “extended by holiday” section.

As for Thursdays (or Wednesdays under old orders) you will get the 10, 17, 24, and 31 (or 9, 16, 23, or 30).

That’s it for this month.  Post comments if you have questions.

Let’s make 2013 the year of compassion when it comes to visitation.  Let’s try to do at least one nice thing this year when a dispute arises as to visitation.  Can we do that?  One thing this year?  I can hear the response…”but they never do anything nice for me…..”  Then I guess you are a better person than they are.  When you give someone a gift, do you expect that they give you a gift back?  I hope not.

Happy New Year.

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Standard possession order for June 2012

Friday, June 1st, 2012

June is here, and so is the summer.  By the time your read this, most all kids should be out of school.  Some important notes to remember in a standard possession order in Texas is that the weekend visitations continue throughout the summer and weeknight possessions do not.  I get this question all the time and for some reason people cannot figure this out.  This is how you tell in your order:

  • The Thursday possessions (or Wednesdays in older orders) say “during the school term”, such and such parent shall have Thursdays (or Wednesdays).  This means when school is in session.  If your child is too young for school, then it goes by the calendar of the school district they would be in to determine when school is in session.
  • If you will review the weekend provisions, however, you will see there is no such language.  That is because weekend possessions continue all year long.

The continued weekend possessions are trumped by summer visitation.  If you will review my previous post you will see how a clever parent can designate summer weekends that aren’t theirs for there extended summer possession and still get the weekends that are.  If someone reads my post and uses this against you, I am sorry :( .

For a review of other summer issues please review my post on summer visitation in Texas.

If you are a parent exercising standard visitation in Texas, and you have not otherwise designated some time in June for your extended summer possession, you will have the following weekends:

  • June 1st (first Friday)
  • June 15 (it is fatherless day weekend AND third Friday of the month) and
  • June 29 (this is a fifth Friday of the month)

Remember that when there is a fifth Friday of the month, the visiting parent will get that weekend and the very next weekend because it will be the first Friday of the month (in this year, July the 6th, unless this is inside your extended summer possession in which case you get the child anyway).

No Thursdays (or Wednesdays in older orders) this month.

Have a good beginning to the summer!

 

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november and the Texas standard possession order

Friday, October 28th, 2011

This is my second go around on the standard visitation order for November in Texas.  You can see my first round here.  The song remains the same, only the dates have changed.  Actually that is not true.  Last year was the custodial parent’s Thanksgiving holiday and this year’s visitation belongs to the non-custodial parent.  That changes things a bit as you will see below.

The weekend visits this month are the 4th and 18th.  The parent with standard visitation will also get each Thursday this month (including Thanksgiving).  Pretty simple, right?

Now the hard part – the Thanksgiving holiday.  The age old question in most of our visitation battles is “when does school let out for the Thanksgiving holiday”?  If the child is off for the entire week of Thanksgiving, then visitation is a no-brainer.  The non-custodial parent gets visitation beginning Friday the 18th and keeps the child until the Sunday following the Thanksgiving holiday (or return to school Monday depending upon your order).  This includes if the Monday and Tuesday are “in-service” days or the kids are not otherwise in school.

However, if the children have school on Monday the 21st, then your weekend ends at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday the 20th or, depending upon your order, at the time school resumes that Monday.  Your next possession would begin when the child is let out of school for the Thanksgiving holiday, typically Tuesday or Wednesday in this scenario.  It will end on the Sunday following the holiday.  Your next possession will be in November.

It seems easy enough when I write this, but I know there will be a million questions as the holiday approaches.  I will do my best to answer each of your questions in a timely manner so feel free to comment.I hope everyone has a happy Halloween and Thanksgiving.  Talk to you next month.

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