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Committee considers substitute to clarify parental-presumption procedures in custody suits
Summary
Senator Brian Birdwell presented a committee substitute to Senate Bill 2052 that would require specific affidavit and factual-finding procedures before non-parents may obtain conservatorship over a child.
The chair called up the committee substitute for Senate Bill 2052 and recognized Senator Brian Birdwell to explain changes to parental-presumption language in conservatorship suits.
Birdwell told members the substitute is consensus language from a workgroup and adds a requirement that non-parents in suits with a parent over conservatorship submit an affidavit that "the denial of the relief requested would significantly impair the child's…
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