When parents stop to consider this it then makes sense that if future relations with the other party are at least going to be on a civil basis, that it is important that during
the whole child custody process that both parties take care to be civil to each other, and above all place the needs of the children above their own needs or petty squabbles.
Not exact matches
For these reasons, and also to simplify the law in this area, the Texas legislature changed Texas
child custody laws in order to both speed up the
process of getting these matters settled, and also to make sure that the
whole process was smoother and more amicable along the way.
This moves away from previous ideas that the mother would tend to get the bulk of the
child custody, and instead gives the father a much firmer footing in the
whole process.