Legal Question in Family Law in Texas
I'm a single mother in Texas with a 22 month old daughter. I am a alcoholic in recovery, and after 2 years of sobriety I relapsed this summer. I decided to move into a sober living home temporarily. My daughters father and I are not together but are on good terms. My mother offered to take care of my daughter during this time. I have been at the sober house for a couple months and my mom is filing a custody modification order. I have conservatorship and my mom says she wants me to sign that over to her so she can take my daughter off Medicaid and add her to her policy. She claims that signin over custody is the only way she will be able to do this. Is this true? Isn't there some way I can appoint her temporary guardianship instead of signing my parental rights away? My daughters father refuses to sign anything and my mom says if we don't sign she will file it with the courts anyway. Any information or advice would be great appreciated.
1 Answer from Attorneys
Why do the kids need to be taken off medicaid? It sounds like there is more to what your mother wants to do than get your kids off government insurance.
Conservatorship over the children can be modified to make your mother a conservator with certain rights over the kids. You can go back and change that in the future but you're talking about two expensive modification suits. That probably isn't the best route for you. It is one process to allow your mother to put the kids on her insurance policy but that gets back to the question why changing insurance providers is so important.
My suggestion to you is that you talk to an attorney about what you can do now and what you will need to do if she files her modification suit.
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