February 23, 2012
Texas Home School Coalition PAC
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Several weeks ago I left home on a Sunday evening and flew to Austin to get up early the next morning and drive to Cameron, Texas to testify in a divorce case in the Milam County Courthouse. A member of our Association contacted us because her husband who had always been very supportive of their home schooling informed her he wanted a divorce.
In October a video was posted online by a young woman who had evidently been abused by her father for years. What made the video “go viral” was the fact that it was seven or eight minutes of verbal profanity and physical beating with a belt by a sitting Texas judge. While the judge has been suspended, with pay, by the Texas Supreme Court, he will not be prosecuted, since the statute of limitations has passed. Even though calls for his resignation have been many and passionate, he does not seem inclined to do so.
In the ongoing battle for restoration of the fundamental constitutional right of fit parents to direct the care, control, and upbringing of their children, we often challenge Child Protective Service (CPS) workers who investigate allegations of abuse and/or neglect. While state law requires that every legitimate allegation be investigated, often these caseworkers go beyond their legal authority.
Not surprisingly, the hearing scheduled for yesterday in the 231st District Court in Tarrant County was another disappointment and example of judges who lack impartiality and have a low view of parental rights. The hearing was scheduled to address the issue of requiring the grandparents to pay attorney fees incurred by the father in the three-year legal battle to regain custody of his daughter. For the second time this year, the judge refused to allow the hearing to go forward on an issue likely to favor the parent citing the basis that the grandparents’ attorney had raised additional issues that were not already before the court.
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The Tarrant County father who regained custody of his daughter in a jury trial last August will be back in the same court today to ask the same judge to require his daughter’s grandparents to pay his legal fees. The Texas Family Code allows the judge to require the grandparents to pay the legal fees since the jury ruled against them.
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Last week I traveled to Austin to attend the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA) and the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) annual conference. I was invited to attend a specific presentation by a committee from Leadership TASB, a leadership training program for local public school board members. This committee had been meeting for a year, tasked with developing a presentation on home schooling in Texas. [Read more...]
As I review the ongoing battle against grandparents that many fit parents across Texas are waging, fighting to keep their children and to make decisions for them, it is abundantly clear that many of the problems relate to the judges involved in these cases. This is why THSC PAC has become more and more involved in the judicial election process. Very often our parental rights depend on a fair and impartial judge, and as we have seen in recent cases, some judges are anything but fair and impartial. [Read more...]
Many of my out-of-state friends have asked my opinion of Governor Perry since he has made such a dramatic entrance into the race for the Republican nomination for president of the United States. Since the attack on his conservative credentials has recently focused on what I would consider his position on parental rights, I thought I should give my opinion of him and his record in that regard. [Read more...]
Tuesday night the girl who, as a 10-year-old, was taken from her father because her father had missed nine days of court-ordered visitation with her grandparents spent her first night with her father at home in more than three years. Now 13 years old, she is enjoying time with him and is excited about beginning her home school adventure. [Read more...]
Tomorrow the fit Tarrant County father who has been separated from his thirteen year-old daughter for more than three years will be reunited with her. What some have called a “legal kidnapping” by a judge (who has done this before) who issued a temporary order to remove her from the father has been reversed after a 10-day trial. The temporary order was issued on the basis that he was an “international flight risk” with absolutely no evidence presented to support that allegation. [Read more...]
Several weeks ago I left home on a Sunday evening and flew to Austin to get up early the next morning and drive to Cameron, Texas to testify in a divorce case in the Milam County Courthouse. A member … [Read More...]
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