Judge Testifies on Equal Parenting to Texas Legislators–
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0:00 okay I think miss Kalani is okay yeah I 0:02 wanted to say in regards to where you 0:04 stated the foster care children if they 0:06 wouldn't send them to one house one week 0:08 in another house another week that would 0:09 be horrible yes it would be but we're 0:11 talking about children they're going 0:13 back and forth between their two parents 0:14 so that's not comparable and the other 0:17 thing is as far as this current schedule 0:20 the other parent gets two hundred and 0:22 twenty seven more days how do you feel 0:26 like that is acceptable I don't know how 0:29 you're counting two hundred twenty seven 0:31 more days forty eight overnights so you 0:35 have 138 overnights of the non primary 0:37 which means the other person gets 227 0:39 extra days 154 overnights which 138 0:44 overnight okay I'm looking at 154 0:48 overnights in a non from any night okay 0:49 okay you're looking at 2019 okay and I 0:51 was looking at 2018 yes from years a 0:54 year it changes okay 2018 the non 0:57 primary had 154 overnights okay and then 1:00 a 2019 they would have a hundred thirty 1:02 eight overnights right so what I'm 1:03 saying is the other person gets 227 days 1:06 compared to two 138 days and I have 1:09 number of years yes under this calendar 1:11 yes so that's and in the even-numbered 1:13 years they get the smaller portion right 1:15 since almost four months mm-hmm of days 1:19 where they're overnight right 1:21 not counting the days where you get to 1:22 take the child to school take the child 1:24 to dinner pick the child up from school 1:25 right but that's not anywhere equal at 1:28 all and I'm looking at it from the 1:30 child's perspective 1:30 who's saying can I just have a Monday 1:32 Tuesday Wednesday where I go to school 1:34 from the same house and I'm looking it 1:36 from a child's perspective that might 1:37 say hey I hate dancing around I'd like 1:39 to have week on week off and we could do 1:42 that under the current statute we could 1:44 absolutely do that a court could do week 1:46 on week off we just have to follow the 1:48 presumption so yes you're correct I 1:51 could do that in a case under the 1:53 existing statute with no change to the 1:55 statute 2:03 you