Legal Question in Family Law in Texas
The non-custodial parent is order to send a written notice by April 1 in order to have extended Summer. In the custody orders , its states he shall have possession of the child for forty-two days beginning no earlier than the day the child's school is dismissed for the summer vacation and ending no later then seven days prior to school resuming at the end of the summer vacation, to exercised in no more than two separate periods of at least seven consecutive days each. Can you please advise as to what this means to the sole custodial parent? When is the sole custodial suppose to get the child back ? What does it mean when it states "To exercised in no more than two separate perriods of at least seven consecutive days each?"
1 Answer from Attorneys
The order means what it says.
Dad can specify (if he gives the written notice on time) that his 42 days' visitation is exercised in two periods (not three, not four). He gives the beginning and ending dates of the two periods. The custodial parent gets the child back at the end of each of the two periods.
If the notice isn't given on time, then Dad gets his 42 days all together, with beginning and ending dates as specified in the order.