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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB5595Relating to the determination of the best interest of the child and possession of or access to a child by a nonparent in certain suits affecting the parent-child relationship.
Direction
Custody & supportcustody parenting timeAI label
↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 90%
Makes it harder for nonparents (such as grandparents) to obtain court-ordered possession of or access to a child over a parent's objection by strengthening the rebuttable presumption that a parent acts in the child's best interest and that the child should be in the parent's care, custody, and/or by
In a suit between a parent and a nonparent, it is a rebuttable presumption that: (1) a parent acts in the best interest of the parent's child; and (2) it is in the best interest of a child to be in the care, custody, and control of a parent.
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-04-07: Referred to s/c on Family & Fiduciary Relationships by Speaker
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill strengthens the legal presumption favoring parents over nonparents in custody, conservatorship, possession, and access disputes (including modification suits), raises the evidentiary burden on nonparents to clear and convincing evidence of significant impairment, and repeals the prior statutes that specifically authorized grandparent and nonparent suits for access. These changes make it harder for nonparents to obtain or maintain court-ordered possession of or access to a child against a parent's wishes, which expands the rights of the parent who has less custody or pays support (per:
Related bills
SB335Relating to the best interest of the child in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Filed
HB185Relating to certain services and interventions ordered in a suit affecting a parent-child relationship and to certain judicial training requ↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Filed
HB692Relating to the interview of a child in a suit affecting a parent-child relationship.=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Filed
HB930Relating to the consideration of family violence and coercive control in determining conservatorship and possession of and access to a child↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Filed