APPOINTMENT OF POSSESSORY CONSERVATOR
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Phillips v. Beaber (1999)
Most recently applied in in the Interest of J.Y., G.Y., and B.Y., Children (April 2017)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) If a managing conservator is appointed, the court may appoint one or more possessory conservators.
(b) The court shall specify the rights and duties of a person appointed possessory conservator.
(c) The court shall specify and expressly state in the order the times and conditions for possession of or access to the child, unless a party shows good cause why specific orders would not be in the best interest of the child.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.