Child Custody and Visitation — Modification of Attorney in Dallas, Texas

Child Custody Modification

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Normally, the judges like to see at least a year. I don’t like to come into court trying to modify something when the inks not even dry on the original order and the judge doesn’t like it either. So if you’re gonna do it in less than a year there needs to be some sort of emergency or some really severe change in circumstances. Other than that, as long as there’s a change in circumstance and the new modification is in the best interest of the children you can do that. There’s some new law about changing custody on temporary orders its not as easy to do that as it once was so you really have to have some significant facts to make that happen. And so orders are modifiable until the children are 18. You can modify custody, support, and visitation until they’ve emancipated. And so a lot of our work is modifying. Maybe there’s a teenager that wants to come live with one of the parents, maybe somebody moved, maybe somebody wants to move and that comprises a lot of our modification work.

Dallas, TX family law attorney Lisa E. McKnight talks about when custody orders can be modified.

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