Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

Enforcement of Juvenile Probation Rules

My grandson is 16 and is on 3 years probation. His mother is our daughter and she has been divorced from grandson's father(very abusive marriage) for 9 years and now remarried. At adjudication of my grandson, court ordered supervised, including any conversations, visitations with the boys father. There is a clear pattern that the father has a strong negative influence on the boy and possibly abuse him. The boy using his cell phone called his father last April. The same day the father called his son back and talked 3 minutes. My grandson's cell phone is on my Verizon account. My grandson call his father in May about 15 times and the night of June 5 when my grandson took my car without my permission (which I would not have given it), without a license, and it came back with the left front damaged=$2,000. During this period of time the boy also broke his curfew repeatedly and now is back in detention waiting to see the judge. Who does the court expect to enforce the probation rule of supervised visitation with his father including phone calls? I am his guardian and can enforce where my grandson goes but I can't control who he calls or when his father calls him.


Asked on 7/09/08, 10:37 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
TC Langford Langford Law Office

Re: Enforcement of Juvenile Probation Rules

Hopefully you have retained an attorney for your grandson. (As for your questions about enforcement, be prepared to answer why you did not take the boy's phone away from him and/or terminate the service; and be prepared to answer why you did not report the six weeks of phone violations to his probation officer, before it escalated to this point.)

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Answered on 7/10/08, 7:13 am


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