33rd / 424th District Courts

Address for the Texas Child Support Disbursement Unit a/k/a State Disbursement Unit or simply SDU.

PO Box 659791, San Antonio, TX 78265-9791.

The Honorable Greg Abbott
Attorney General of Texas
Attn: Opinion Committee
P.O. Box 12548
Austin, Texas 78711-2548

Re: Is the Texas grandparent access statute, Section 153.433 of’the Texas Family Code, unconstitutional based on the United States Supreme Court ruling in Troxel v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000)

Discuss in this forum the effectiveness of CPS, ways that the Court can differently handle the CPS cases, modifications that might be made to orders, etc.

Feel free to "vent" as may be necessary or helpful to your own mental health, but I'd like to also solicit your ideas about positive improvements that I can make in our processes.

i.e. don't try an insufficiency/no evidence/abuse of discretion point if you're part of the problem creating a void in the evidence.

". . . when a party does not provide values for property to be divided, that party may not complain on appeal that the trial court lacked sufficient information to properly divide the property. Vannerson v. Vannerson, 857 S.W.2d 659, 670 (Tex. App.-Houston [1st Dist.] 1993, writ denied)."

• The judges of the two courts have adopted a joint
  administrative order for the division of cases falling under the family
  code.

• Click
  here for the order (Adobe PDF format)

• The essential part of the text is
  here.