he is morning Facebook followers my name is brandy Austin and we are going through your questions from last week thank you so much for sending them in we received a ton of questions and I think we’re going to focus today on general initial custody question so without further ado I’m going to pass you over to Larry Mike our family law attorney and he’s an answer the question hi Facebook live we’re here today family we got a bunch of questions so we’re going to go through the question and answer
your questions as best as we can always remember that if you need a consultation we do offer free consultations at the brain else in law firm addresses to four-year for Roosevelt dr arlington texas 760 16 okay Larry our first question is what is joint custody what is joint custody well we hear a lot of questions about what is custody in Texas courts divided custody into two separate things you’ve got conservatorships and access and possession when we talk about conservatorship that’s basically the
rights and duties of the parents would conservatorship you have something called Joint Managing conservatorship that’s where both parties jointly exercise the duties of a parent such as schooling medical decisions psychiatric decisions you know how to raise a child what do they do so when we talk about joint conservatorship we’re actually talking about the right festivities that the parents exercise sex they jointly okay our next question is what is 50-50 custody 50-50 custody so I would assume
it 5050 means the actual physical possession of the chest so when we’re talking about 5050 most of the time people are hey it’s either a week on week off provision or some type of two to three or five to two schedules fifty-fifty when people talk about that they’re saying hey I want to have as much time with my child physically as the other part okay great answer our third question is my x 1 50 50 but I don’t think it’s a good idea what should I do when we talk about that the one thing
that you have to understand is that it takes two people to create a child and in my opinion it’s another participation but in my opinion he takes two people to raise that child even though the relationship between you and the other parent has diminished you still have a relationship with the child if there is apparent that wants to be there with the child once to exercise their rights wants to to just be a father or be a mother the Mets a good thing when it comes to 5050 provisions there’s this
thing that I just told me one time where you’ve got good time and then she said your crap time the good time on the week is where it’s all a play is going up to eat the amusement parks the craft time is you need to go take a shower you need to do your homework you need to eat you need to you know clean up one parent shouldn’t have to deal with all of that and then one parent gets all the fun time both parents share that equal so when you’re thinking about that question think to yourself do I want to just have
all the crap time and then this person has all the good times or do I want to share that equally and I think as a child growing up developmentally they need to be able to experience what it’s like to have both parents equal in their lives ok another question we got and this woman get a lot I heard my child can say who or who he wants to live with is that true well in Texas foods the child substitution not the sole sole decision that the Court takes into account when they’re determining who the child stays with the
court you use what’s called the best interest of the child standards now when a child reaches the age of 12 bacon expressed to the court their preference and the judge will take that into account but ultimately it’s up to the court to determine what is in the best interest of a child but certainly the child’s decision or wishes will be taken into account okay and is it through that in texts the courts favor the mother and if so why no that’s not true here’s the thing what I’ve seen in a lot of cases
you have mothers and fathers that are battling when it comes to who has access in who has possession of the children the one thing that you have to understand with that it’s a lot of times there is a parent who has been the main one that has taken the child to medical visits taking the child to school to digital x critical activities managing their daily routine and then there’s one parent that has done that so when you go on the court and you have this feeling that okay the court just favors is
personal the other you have to realize you need to know those same things as well who the child’s businesses who’s the doctor what’s the teachers man what’s the daily routine if you don’t know those things then yet the court is going to favor at the other party who has been taken care of a child so your main mission if you want to make sure that there’s not a feeling that the court is favoring someone over the other is to learn those things to learn your child to learn those behaviors so that
you too will have the equal amount of time that okay well that’s all the questions we have today Larry do you have anything you’d like to add you know just just one more bridge thing a lot of times what we see with parents and children is that there’s there’s a big fight when it comes to kids and there’s one parent instead hey which is my child but the child is both of yours so when you’re going into court you got to think what is in the best interest of my child and what should I do to make sure that what
we’re doing in court does not affect my child if you keep your child at heart and you keep them at the forefront of what you’re doing then hopefully you’ll be able to minimize minimize stress of the legal system and they will live your life according fantastic and remind everyone the areas of law we practice here so we defend them off as what you see here we also do personal injury bankruptcy wills probate space criminal business law we do it all so if you have any questions that you want a consult
and you want to come to the farm once again our edges is 240 for world’s about dry arlington texas 760 16 our phone number is 8 1784 1990 6 where the technical difficulty with the car but that’s our address and that’s our phone number you can reach us on instagram facebook i think you can tweet us maybe but if you need to see us come talk to us and we’ll be glad to help you out all right thank you for your five Marion thank you
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