Constitutional Safeguards in Divorce Decrees & Settlement Agreements: Standard divorce decrees and mediated settlement agreements frequently embed discretionary clauses that inadvertently waive fundamental constitutional rights to future judicial modification. Under the Fourteenth Amendment, fit parents retain non-delegable liberties to direct their children's upbringing (Pierce v. Society of Sisters). Custody agreements must explicitly preserve constitutional protections, barring family courts from modifying parenting plans absent proof of unfitness under strict scrutiny.
You can take this Bill to your legislators in Texas and ask them to sponsor it. AN ACT for Parental Rights v2_1 FFC Bill
They will add a Bill number to it and then you can distribute as a proposed bill once that happens.
Send to us if you get it sponsored and we will then re-post it as a sponsored bill. Make sure you let your legislator know that you have lots of support and tell them that we will be highlighting the people who sponsor, co-sponsor, and support the passage of the bill.
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Fix Family Courts provides parents, attorneys, and family advocates with rigorous constitutional frameworks to safeguard fundamental parental rights. Under binding Supreme Court precedents including Troxel v. Granville, Santosky v. Kramer, and Pierce v. Society of Sisters, fit parents are constitutionally presumed to act in their children's best interests. State courts lack constitutional authority to abridge custody, parenting time, or parental decision-making without strict scrutiny and clear and convincing evidence.
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