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In texas does columbus day count as a day that extends the weekend visitation to monday at 6 pm?
The children are not out of school.
The papers read : "Weekend Possession Extended by a Holiday-Except as otherwise explicitly provided in this Standard Possession Order if a weekend period of possession by insert fathers name beginds on a Thursday that is a school hilday during the regular school term or a federal, state or local holiday during the summer months when school is not is session or if the peroiod ends on or is immediately followed by a Monday that is such a holiday that weekend period of possession shall begin at teth time the child's chool is regulary dismissed on the Thursday immediately preceding the Friday Holiday  or school holiday or end at 6pm on the Modnay Holiday or at the time resumes after that school holiday.

My daughter asked to speak with her mother this weekend and I let her and she went outside and came back in and told me that she told her mother that I only try to have good communication with her and then her mother let her go to call her lawyer and my daughter came in crying and said her mother is going to take her away from me.
Question:We got expanded standard vistitation in Texas last year, if the xwife feels as if things are not working out with the expanded standard visitation can she take it away?
Question 2: are phone/personal conversations that are recorded admissable in court?
 Expanded standard visitation is moving from wednesday night from 6-8 to overnight and from Friday-Sunday at 6 to Thursday after school until Monday morning when school resumes.
My daughter is not helping things out because she complains to her mother about my wife and I and comes to our house and complains to us.
Thanks Texas Daddy

In addition I also have overnight Wednesdays on the 2nd and fourth weeks.


We have a lot of documentation which we were told we could not use when we went to modify

I am a joint managing conservators of the child in question. I have 1st, 3rd and fifth weekends begining with Thursday after school and ending Monday Morning when school resumes. All the rights of a parent are granted to me. The holidays and school vacations are standards. There is nothing in the current order to limit my new wife's activities. I provide Health Insurance and pay 50% of remaining bills in addition to child support. My wife is an active part of my daughters life and has taken the child to get hair cuts, dental appointments, doctor appointments, extra curricular activities and has even taken care of my ex-wifes other child from a second marriage.  My x-wife has decided she did not like the relationship that my daughter has with my wife and now is threatening me and telling me she is going for modification to include limitations by my new wife and time to call by myself to my daughter restrictions (such as the time limits).
WIll the judge agree to these modifications she proposes and  remove my wife from extra curricular activities?
Can my x-wife limit when I call my daughter?
How much does the judge listen to the child and or therapist?
Thanks Sorry for being a bad post person...

My daughter is 7 and her mother and I share custody of her.
I  believe that there is mental abuse.
My current wife and I believe we could provide a better home for her.
Her mother is constantly calling (every week or so) to gripe at me concerning my new wife or that she is going to deny me my rights as a father. etc... walking with her on the field during a homecoming game.
She threatens that I will pay because she basically hates my new wife even though she has done more for my daughter than she ever has.

Questions:We want an evaluation done to not only prove that we would provide a better home for my daughter, but to also prove that my wife is a genuinely good step parent and good person. We don't have the money to do a full custody battle, is this evaluation or home study a good choice.

Can my x-wife remove my new wife from extra curricular activities or from volunteering at her school


Can she put in the paper that I can only call between certain hours on certain days? I only call once a day.


Is there a  chance to get week on week off visitation? or something more that extended standard visitation which is what i have now? modified 11/04





Thanks struggling Dad...

I bought an 80 dollar hand held that can just be held up to the phone and record live conversations as well.

WIFE OF BRADLEY I have the t-shirt as the most unappreciated step parent in texas. I have been around for 3 years. I have taken my step daughter to the dentist every time except once, gotten her hair cut, paid for extra curricular activities, taken care of the x-wifes other child, made homecoming mums, paid for half school supplies registered her for school 2 years and summer camp. Now all of a sudden I am not allowed to talk to the x wife or her family, I am evil, can't come to meet the teacher night but did anyway. The x=wife is trying to take my husband back to court for calling his own daughter and that I am harrassing her and she doesnt want us to cut her hair or inroll her in any extra curricular activities. WHat ever! The ex wife is the one who has had several live in boyfriends and walks a fine line of verbal abuse.

BM has to wait till the 19th of November to modify (we modified last year from standard to extended standard visitation last November) to have the new wife removed from certain activities and to not allow us to cut my daughters hair and for me to only call between the hours of 7-8pm.
Should my new wife get letters of reference to help our case?
Have you heard of anything like an every other year for choosing childs activities?
We would like to choose some of the activities my daughter participates in (since we don't have her every Wednesday or Every Thursday) . And for the BM to have to take the daughter to the activities we pay for and she wants to be in.
What do you suggest to do to prepare for this motion to motify?
etc... daughter goes to counseling

My wife is currently in your shoes as well, she keeps my daughter when the BM is unable to stay home with her when she is sick, arranges for all the extra curricular activities, doctor appointment and dentist appointments, but my wife is not good enough to call or talk to my ex-wife. My daughter is not encouraged to even have a relationship with my daughter.
How is the SM the evil one when she has a better relatioship with my daughter than her mother does!

I think it also depends on the state, If a realationship between the sm and the new children have already been developed, then I see no reason for a judge to remove that child from the home even if it is with the sm. Unless of course the sm is worse than the bm... in my case far from it.