Tex. Family Code § 153.001
PUBLIC POLICY
Texas · Texas Family Code · Status: effective
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- Tex. Family Code § 153.001, PUBLIC POLICY, Texas, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/643341
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(a) The public policy of this state is to:
(1) assure that children will have frequent and continuing contact with parents who have shown the ability to act in the best interest of the child;
(2) provide a safe, stable, and nonviolent environment for the child; and
(3) encourage parents to share in the rights and duties of raising their child after the parents have separated or dissolved their marriage.
(b) A court may not render an order that conditions the right of a conservator to possession of or access to a child on the payment of child support.