REBUTTABLE PRESUMPTION
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Niskar v. Niskar (2004)
Most recently applied in In the Interest of A.G. (September 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.
In a suit, there is a rebuttable presumption that the standard possession order in Subchapter F:
(1) provides reasonable minimum possession of a child for a parent named as a possessory conservator or joint managing conservator; and
(2) is 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.