July 2023 under Texas Standard Possession Order | Law Office of Chris Schmiedeke, PC

The Texas Standard Possession Order (SPO) is a legal framework that governs visitation rights in Texas. It provides a structured schedule for parents to follow, outlining when each parent has the right to spend time with their child.

July 2023 under Texas Standard Possession Order | Law Office of Chris Schmiedeke, PC

The Texas Standard Possession Order (SPO) is a legal framework that governs visitation rights in Texas. It provides a structured schedule for parents to follow, outlining when each parent has the right to spend time with their child.

The Texas Standard Possession Order (SPO) is a legal framework that governs visitation rights in Texas. It provides a structured schedule for parents to follow, outlining when each parent has the right to spend time with their child. The standard possession order typically grants the noncustodial parent specific periods of possession and access to the child during the summer months, including July. According to the SPO, the noncustodial parent is usually entitled to have possession of the child for 30 consecutive days during the summer unless the custodial parent selects a weekend inside those thirty days. This period is often referred to as the extended summer possession. It generally starts on July 1st and continues until July 31st unless notice is given of custom dates. During this time, the noncustodial parent has the right to spend uninterrupted and extended time with the child subject only to a weekend selected by the custodial parent. They are responsible for taking care of the child's daily needs and ensuring their well-being during their thirty days. Parents can also make alternative agreements or modifications to the standard schedule through mutual consent or court approval. Otherwise, the parties will follow the standard possession order if that is what is set out. If there are any conflicts or disputes regarding the custody arrangement, it is advisable for the parents to consult with their attorneys or seek legal guidance to ensure compliance with the court's orders and protect the best interests of the child.

Texas Antisemitism Executive Order

PLEASE SHARE THIS AROUND!!

As many of y'all know by now, I am a Texan. Specifically a Texan in higher education, at a public university. Gov. Abbott's new executive order to have public universities crack down on Anti-Semitic speech directly impacts the students advocating for Palestine.

Phrases such as "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" can now be considered HATE SPEECH!

“Some radical organizations on our campuses engaged in acts that have no place in Texas,” Abbott said in a press release. “Now, we must work to ensure that our college campuses are safe spaces for members of the Jewish community.”

This was never about protecting Jewish people, but protecting Zionists. The order was issued after universities across Texas had issues after Oct. 7th's events. Pro-Palestine and Pro-Israel students were butting heads, and some broke out into fights according to some sources. As a uni student myself, I have seen these conflicting sides in person. Abbott's statement also makes no mention of the Anti-Islamic rhetoric that has also been spreading due to Israel's persecution of Palestinians.

This order calls for all public universities and colleges review their free speech policies, and to lay out in their policies the definition of antisemitism, and punishments for Anti-Semitic rhetoric. All within 90 days of the order's publishment.

Most of this appears to be banking on HB 3257, the bill that introduced Texas' Holocaust, Genocide, And Antisemitism Advisory Commission

Now, there has been some actual pushback on this, from the The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Texas) as well as students and administration from the universities and colleges effected.

“This order not only undermines the principles of free speech and academic freedom but also perpetuates a harmful narrative that equates criticism of Israeli policies with antisemitism,” CAIR-DFW Executive Director Mustafa Carroll said in a statement.

Taken from the Dallas Morning News article posted earlier in this post.

The wordage used by Abbott worries many people, due to the fact that it is so vague. To the point where criticizing Israel and it's government can be considered hate speech.

Please share this around. If it is happening here, it can happen to any state.

Don't stop speaking about Palestine. Don't stop supporting the Palestinian citizens who are displaced right now. Educate your peers, donate if you are able, and don't give up hope.

So you know how school gets more laid back by the end of the year?

Yeah me neither, have some doodles :)

helping

Blue team sleep over :]

Getting back into my traditional stuff recently, had the idea for this peice for a while, very happy I finally got the time to draw it <3

Texas doctors have been turning patients away because they face up to 99 years in prison, at least $100,000 in fines, and the loss of their medical license for violating the abortion bans. This means pregnant Texans are being forced to either wait until they are near death to receive care or flee the state if they are able. 

The thought of Amelia/Alfred declaring independence and then being immediately thrust into parenthood appeals to me. Imagine if you will shortly after the Revolution the emergence of State Personifications coming about with each admission to the Union (Delaware was the first one). Whether they appear miraculously or are birthed via (unwilling) parthenogenesis (which I prefer) the bottom line is that suddenly America has all these kids to take care of, all of who grow up just as fast as America did. Regardless of how they came to be or how fast they grow, America loves them with his/her whole being and creates a system in which they are always protected and accounted for by the larger government. America promises to be there for them the way England never was.

Then fast forward to the Civil War, and America is waging a bloody war against half of her/his children that see hundreds of thousands of their people dead. Brother against brother, father against son, cousin against cousin. And each secession feels like a small death because they are part of America just as much as America is a part of them, practically inseparable, or at least America thought so. To add even more complexity, not all of America's children were white or white-passing. America being neglected because s/he was to far away or denied certain rights for not being British enough was bad on its own, but imagine your parent not being able to claim you or fully protect you or give you basic human rights without public/social/political backlash because your skin is darker and you're legal property in half the country. Or imagine having powerful politicians who want to keep people who look like your children in bondage and you have to compromise with them to keep the Union whole, knowing the opinions they would have if they even knew you had children who were black (some of them do know and make sure their opinions are known). Or your other children starting a war to selfishly keep this system in place at the expense of their black siblings. The relationship between America and his/her children, with America acting as both the federal government that protects the states as well as the greater whole that represents the Union and the states as the children, each an extension of America, an integral part of America's being, pushing back against the sometimes overbearing hovering of their parent, impeding on states rights (whether they believe America is in the right or not) and protecting others and sometimes America will helplessly throw his/her hands in the air and say "fine, ill let YOU decide on this issue because I am not a dictator, despite what some of you like to think, but if you fuck up im stepping in" because America doesn't want to make the same mistakes England made in the past but then America has to deal with the negative consequences of her/his children's actions when they do something unbelievably stupid while trying not to seem like a fire-breathing tyrant. Which, they end up thinking anyway, regardless if America wasn't entirely in the wrong about butting in and taking hold of the situation before it escalated. The negative reaction only serves to make America step away AGAIN so as to not seem completely authoritarian in their eyes. It's a never-ending cycle. Not to mention the complex relationships the states have with each other, especially the southern states among themselves and the southern vs northern states rivalry.

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also whenever America takes his/her eyes off the states for 1mili second to see what the rest of the world is up to (hopefully not another world war) while usually being like 'back off, geeze! 🤬' America's children immediately switch to 'how come you're not paying attention to ME instead 🥺 you always focus on the world instead of ME 😢'

July 2023 under Texas Standard Possession Order | Law Office of Chris Schmiedeke, PC

The Texas Standard Possession Order (SPO) is a legal framework that governs visitation rights in Texas. It provides a structured schedule for parents to follow, outlining when each parent has the right to spend time with their child.

The Texas Standard Possession Order (SPO) is a legal framework that governs visitation rights in Texas. It provides a structured schedule for parents to follow, outlining when each parent has the right to spend time with their child. The standard possession order typically grants the noncustodial parent specific periods of possession and access to the child during the summer months, including July. According to the SPO, the noncustodial parent is usually entitled to have possession of the child for 30 consecutive days during the summer unless the custodial parent selects a weekend inside those thirty days. This period is often referred to as the extended summer possession. It generally starts on July 1st and continues until July 31st unless notice is given of custom dates. During this time, the noncustodial parent has the right to spend uninterrupted and extended time with the child subject only to a weekend selected by the custodial parent. They are responsible for taking care of the child's daily needs and ensuring their well-being during their thirty days. Parents can also make alternative agreements or modifications to the standard schedule through mutual consent or court approval. Otherwise, the parties will follow the standard possession order if that is what is set out. If there are any conflicts or disputes regarding the custody arrangement, it is advisable for the parents to consult with their attorneys or seek legal guidance to ensure compliance with the court's orders and protect the best interests of the child.

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Those of you who follow Caitlin Doughty probably know this already, but right now my state (Texas) is fighting for the right to cremate remains using alkalyne hydrolysis (water cremation or 'aquamation.') More info here. https://www.cremation.green/water-cremation-is-illegal-in-texas-but-why/

With all the battles being fought for bodily autonomy right now regarding reproductive rights and trans + queer rights, let's not forget about the right to decide what happens to your body when you die. Right now, Texans who opt for water cremation as part of their death plan are left with no choice but to have their loved ones ship their body to one of the 21 states where water cremation is legal.

Water cremation is an affordable alternative to embalming and burial, much like traditional cremation. Because water cremation uses water instead of fire to dissolve human remains, many feel it is a 'gentler' process, and because the water is recycled into the sewer system and does not create greenhouse gases, some wish to choose water cremation as a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional cremation.

Anyone can sign this petition. While I apologize if this is a morbid topic, we deserve the right to decide what happens to our bodies when we die just as much as when we are alive.

We are fighting hard for S.B 105 and H.B. 2895 to become law. Please share and sign if you can.

Watching Alone really drives home the low success rates of a single human hunter and makes you appreciate the value of food that can't run away.

It's also a really good example of how hunter gatherer subsistence works.

If you leave 10 humans in the environment with limited resources and no contact or rescue party, 9 of them will be dead in 90 days.all of them will be dead in a little over 100 days.

Even with 2 people, starvation tends to set in after a couple months.

And yeah, people from hunter gatherer cultures they'd probably be better at this than a bunch of Americans who do it as a side hustle, but there's only so much one person can do in one day. It's almost never enough.

It's too much for one human to collect enough berries to have vitamin c through the winter. It's too much for one human to hunt and process enough big game regularly to feed themselves. it's too much for one human to build an insulated home and then monitor their heat source to keep that home from catching fire.

It's too much to make and use sharp tools without injuring yourself, and it's too much to try and do all the work hurt if you do. It's too much to go out and find more food when your inability to find safe food made you sick.

On the other hand, if you put 10 people out in the environment together with limited resources and occasional contact with other small groups, you'd have a community that could last indefinitely.

For all that we glorify stories of the lone individual against the environment, it very much isn't how we evolved to survive.