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Senate Bill 495 |
Senate Author: Uresti |
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Effective: 9-1-17 |
House Sponsor: Thompson, Senfronia |
Senate Bill 495 amends the Family Code to extend the rebuttable presumption in a child custody hearing that it is not in the best interest of a child for a parent to have unsupervised visitation to a situation in which credible evidence is presented of a history or pattern of past or present child neglect or abuse or family violence by any other person who resides in that parent's household or who is permitted by that parent to have unsupervised access to the child during the custody period. The bill authorizes a court to decline to enter a judgment on a mediated settlement agreement in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship if the court finds that the agreement would permit certain persons subject to sex offender registration to reside in the same household as the child or otherwise have unsupervised access to the child and finds that the agreement is not in the child's best interest.