What is standard visitation under the Texas Family Code?
Standard visitation, or the Standard Possession Order in Texas contains guidelines for possession of the child and addresses weekend, holiday, summer and other specific periods or times of possession, and varies according to the distance between the conservators’ residences. The Standard Possession order is typically tailored to the particular circumstances of the child and the parents, and provides that the parties “shall have possession of the child at any and all times mutually agreed to in advance by the parties”. The Possession Order controls visitation when the parents do not agree. For a child less than 3 years old, there are no guildelines so that a possession order must be tailored for each situation. Generally, for conservators who live less than 100 miles apart and for children at least 3 years old, the Standard Possession Order provides that the parent not in possession of the child (the parent the child does not live with day-to-day) has the child on each and every Thursda
