Texas Family Code - Section 153.371. Rights And Duties Of Nonparent Appointed As Sole Managing Conservator

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§ 153.371. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF NONPARENT APPOINTED AS 
SOLE MANAGING CONSERVATOR.  Unless limited by court order or other 
provisions of this chapter, a nonparent, licensed child-placing 
agency, or authorized agency appointed as a managing conservator of 
the child has the following rights and duties:
		(1)  the right to have physical possession and to 
direct the moral and religious training of the child;
		(2)  the duty of care, control, protection, and 
reasonable discipline of the child;
		(3)  the duty to provide the child with clothing, food, 
shelter, education, and medical, psychological, and dental care;
		(4)  the right to consent for the child to medical, 
psychiatric, psychological, dental, and surgical treatment and to 
have access to the child's medical records;
		(5)  the right to receive and give receipt for payments 
for the support of the child and to hold or disburse funds for the 
benefit of the child;
		(6)  the right to the services and earnings of the 
child;                   
		(7)  the right to consent to marriage and to enlistment 
in the armed forces of the United States;
		(8)  the right to represent the child in legal action 
and to make other decisions of substantial legal significance 
concerning the child;
		(9)  except when a guardian of the child's estate or a 
guardian or attorney ad litem has been appointed for the child, the 
right to act as an agent of the child in relation to the child's 
estate if the child's action is required by a state, the United 
States, or a foreign government;
		(10)  the right to designate the primary residence of 
the child and to make decisions regarding the child's education;  
and
		(11)  if the parent-child relationship has been 
terminated with respect to the parents, or only living parent, or if 
there is no living parent, the right to consent to the adoption of 
the child and to make any other decision concerning the child that a 
parent could make.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 751, § 34, eff. Sept. 1, 
1995;  Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 949, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999;  
Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1036, § 16, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

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