Texas Family Code - Section 153.314. Holiday Possession Unaffected By Distance Parents Reside Apart

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§ 153.314. HOLIDAY POSSESSION UNAFFECTED BY DISTANCE 
PARENTS RESIDE APART.  The following provisions govern possession 
of the child for certain specific holidays and supersede 
conflicting weekend or Thursday periods of possession without 
regard to the distance the parents reside apart.  The possessory 
conservator and the managing conservator shall have rights of 
possession of the child as follows:
		(1)  the possessory conservator shall have possession 
of the child in even-numbered years beginning at 6 p.m. on the day 
the child is dismissed from school for the Christmas school 
vacation and ending at noon on December 26, and the managing 
conservator shall have possession for the same period in 
odd-numbered years;
		(2)  the possessory conservator shall have possession 
of the child in odd-numbered years beginning at noon on December 26 
and ending at 6 p.m. on the day before school resumes after that 
vacation, and the managing conservator shall have possession for 
the same period in even-numbered years;
		(3)  the possessory conservator shall have possession 
of the child in odd-numbered years, beginning at 6 p.m. on the day 
the child is dismissed from school before Thanksgiving and ending 
at 6 p.m. on the following Sunday, and the managing conservator 
shall have possession for the same period in even-numbered years;
		(4)  the parent not otherwise entitled under this 
standard order to present possession of a child on the child's 
birthday shall have possession of the child beginning at 6 p.m. and 
ending at 8 p.m. on that day, provided that the parent picks up the 
child from the residence of the conservator entitled to possession 
and returns the child to that same place;
		(5)  if a conservator, the father shall have possession 
of the child beginning at 6 p.m. on the Friday preceding Father's 
Day and ending on Father's Day at 6 p.m., provided that, if he is not 
otherwise entitled under this standard order to present possession 
of the child, he picks up the child from the residence of the 
conservator entitled to possession and returns the child to that 
same place;  and
		(6)  if a conservator, the mother shall have possession 
of the child beginning at 6 p.m. on the Friday preceding Mother's 
Day and ending on Mother's Day at 6 p.m., provided that, if she is 
not otherwise entitled under this standard order to present 
possession of the child, she picks up the child from the residence 
of the conservator entitled to possession and returns the child to 
that same place.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1036, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 
2003.

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