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House Bill 1404 |
House Author: Sheffield et al. |
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Effective: 9-1-11 |
Senate Sponsor: Harris |
House Bill 1404 amends the Family Code to provide that a parent conservator who is ordered to military duty, or another parent conservator, may file for a temporary order designating a person for possession of or access to a child in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship without the necessity of showing a material and substantial change of circumstances other than military deployment, military mobilization, or temporary military duty. The bill clarifies that a nonparent appointed as a designated person in such a temporary order is not required to pay child support and removes a provision relating to a temporary order that results in a change of circumstances sufficient to justify another temporary order modifying the child support obligations of a party. The bill grants to a nonparent designated person the rights and duties of a nonparent appointed as sole managing conservator under circumstances that do not involve military duty.