Judge names mother sole managing conservator; father given step-up visitation tied to parole compliance

A judge finalized custody of 5-year-old Maya Florentino in a Zoom hearing, naming the mother, Priscilla Patino, as sole managing conservator and the father, Santiago Florentino, as a possessory conservator, and approving a step-up visitation plan that begins with supervised therapeutic visits and moves to standard possession if the father completes the program. The court tied a geographic restriction on the child's residence to the father's parole status and adopted a two-year drug-testing provision.

At the start of the final, the parties announced a mediated agreement. Jerry Morales, counsel for the father, described the step-up visitation plan: the father will complete at least four therapeutic visitation sessions; following those sessions he will have six weeks of Saturday supervised visits for four hours per visit supervised by paternal grandmother…