Texas Possession Orders
The Standard Possession Order, computed honestly
Texas speaks CONSERVATORSHIP and POSSESSION — not 'custody' as a term of art, and not Florida's parenting plan. Pick a preset and a year: weekend counts are exact from the calendar (first/third/fifth Fridays actually counted), and everything a school calendar controls carries its assumption right beside the number.
Texas law presumes the Standard Possession Order "provides reasonable minimum possession" and "is in the best interest of the child" — rebuttable, and courts tailor orders to the child (§ 153.252).
Overnight estimate
Estimated possessory-conservator overnights · 2026
93
Standard Possession Order
- Weekends (exact)
- 56
- Thursdays
- 0
- Summer
- 30
- Holiday net
- 7
The assumptions — rendered with the count, always
- · Weekend count is exact for the calendar year (first/third/fifth Fridays counted).
- · School-term weeks assumed at 36 for Thursday periods; the child's district calendar controls (§ 153.3101).
- · Holiday blocks assumed at a combined net of 7 overnights to the possessory conservator across Christmas/Thanksgiving/spring alternations — actual dismissal dates are district-set and year parity shifts the split (§ 153.314).
- · Summer figures use the statutory default lengths with timely written notice; elections can shift them.
- · Estimates organize expectations only — the rendered order and the school calendar control.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
Estimates organize expectations — the rendered order controls. Courts tailor possession to the child (the § 153.252 presumption is rebuttable), school districts set the calendars that drive the school-term periods (§ 153.3101), and elections under § 153.317 change the shape. This page never predicts what a court will order. Legal information, not legal advice.