As you and your wife, girlfriend or domestic partner prepare to separate, are already separated or are in the process of filing for divorce in Frisco or elsewhere in Texas, you may wonder how to assert your parental rights. You may want to do all that you can to nurture your ties with your children and minimize the negative impact of the divorce and separation on them. At the same time, you are determined not to be a "willing victim" of unfairness to fathers in family law.
Are Fathers Discriminated Against in Family Law?
Have you heard or do you feel that you will be discriminated against because you are male, and parenting is more closely associated with females in general? In fact, Texas statutes do not discriminate against fathers and courts should not.
Your children should not be punished because their parents are separated or divorced. And you should not be punished because you are a father rather than a mother.
You may have heard or sensed some of the following myths:
- Children — and especially babies — need to be with their mother above all.
- Fathers are insensitive and inattentive in general, by comparison to mothers.
- You are likely to be given less parenting time (custody or visitation) than you believe you should have, and you are also likely to be forced to pay more child support than what is fair.
- Mothers usually get financial and custody matters tipped in their favor through a play on sympathy of judges and juries.
Rights for Fathers and Rights for Children Go Hand in Hand
The truth, however, is that you have the same right as a mother does to persuade a Texas family court that your child or children deserve time with you and that you should not be required to pay more than what is fair. With an experienced Frisco fathers' rights lawyer on your side, you may stand a better chance asserting and protecting what is yours: fairness in child support, child custody and child visitation.
Your children need your fatherly love and care. You need financial fairness. Every member of the family needs stability. The Rachel Firm, headquartered in Plano, represents fathers in various Texas communities, including Allen and McKinney.
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