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the difference between physical and
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legal custody
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a little different in texas surprise
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surprise we always are a little
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different
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so we refer to it as conservatorship
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and possession and access okay
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possession and access
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is exactly what it sounds like it’s the
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amount of time
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that you or your spouse or the other
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parent
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have with the child okay conservatorship
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is all about the child-rearing decisions
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to be made
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and that’s where things can really get
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very hectic so the big ones
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on that are non-emergent medical care
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psychological care psychiatric care
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and educational decisions it is amazing
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how often people disagree about that
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so you can see a lot of it here’s just
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one example
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where a child has add or adhd
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there are opinions all over the place
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about do you
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medicate a child or do you not medicate
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a child
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and what is the severity of the add or
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adhd so are you creating
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a little zombie or are you really
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getting it to where
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little johnny can participate
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in class without just being all over the
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damn place
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you know so that’s there’s a lot of
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conflict that comes up with that so
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that falls you know you’ve got
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educational decisions there because you
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can get into
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is it something where if he still has
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add or adhd and it’s unmedicated that
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you have to go through uh some special
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education classes or
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what you know what has to be done there
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and then you’ve got the
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the psychiatric psychological uh
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other issues that can come in as well as
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the medication so
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there are a whole lot of issues there
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and that’s where a whole lot of the meat
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is and where
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frankly a lot of litigation is
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Dallas, TX family law attorney Mark Scroggins explains the difference between physical and legal custody.