Judge Testifies on Equal Parenting to Texas Legislators
Retired Judge Warne Testifies to JJFI Committee that SPO is EQUAL Newly elected Rep. Calanni calls the judge out and tells her "that is not equal" and argues with other pieces of the judge's testimony. All parents should see this.
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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