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General visitation policy of the Hopkins County Court at Law for children under three, in two schedules. Parents less than 100 miles apart: 0-6 months - one hour each Tuesday and Thursday evening and two hours each Saturday in the custodial parent's home; 6-18 months - one weekday evening and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 5th Saturdays, which may be outside the home, the custodial parent providing a car seat and breast milk or formula; 18 months-3 years - 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday of the 1st, 3rd and 5th weekends plus listed holidays and the child's birthday, with overnight visitation on the standard schedule after age 2 where an older sibling is already on it. Parents more than 100 miles apart: one weekend a month (two from 18 months), daytime hours, with 72 hours' notice (7 days from 18 months) and listed holidays. The court may designate another supervised location.
Texas > Tenth Administrative Judicial Region > Hopkins County > County Court at Law. The court's published general policy for visitation in cases involving children under the age of three; the court considers all facts in every case before ruling.
CLAY HARRISON Presiding Judge Hopkins County Court at Law Phone (903) 438-4004 Fax (903) 438-4107 118 Church Street Sulphur Springs, Texas 75482 Visitation Guidelines for Children Under 3 As always, the Court will consider all facts in every case before making a ruling. However, in the interest of consistency and fairness, the Court here publishes its general policy for visitation in cases involving children under the age of three. If parents reside less than 100 miles apart: [Table: Age | Where | When | Additional Provisions] 0-6 months | Custodial Parent's home | 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., Each Tuesday; 6 p.m. – 7 p.m., Each Thursday; 10 a.m. – 12 p.m., Each Saturday | Court may designate another supervised location for visits 6-18 months | May Occur Outside Custodial Parent's home | 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., One evening per week (designated by visiting parent); 10 a.m. – 2 p.m., 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Saturdays | Custodial parent shall provide car seat and any breast milk or formula needed for the visit. 18 months – 3 years | May Occur Outside Custodial Parent's home | 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday of 1st, 3rd and 5th weekends; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m., January 1st, Easter Sunday, Mother's Day/Father's Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, December 26th and Child's birthday | If there is a child over 3 living in the custodial parent's home who is on a standard visitation schedule with the same visiting parent, the child under 3 shall begin overnight visitation on standard schedule after age 2. If parents reside more than 100 miles apart, visiting parent may choose following option: [Table: Age | Where | When | Additional Provisions] 0-6 months | Custodial Parent's home | 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Saturday AND Sunday, 1 weekend per month (Visiting parent may designate the weekend but must give custodial parent no less than 72 hours notice) | Visitation should not interfere with or interrupt the child's sleep or feeding schedule. Court may designate another supervised location 6-18 months | Custodial Parent's home WITH option of two, 2-hour visits each day outside the home | 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Saturday AND Sunday, 1 weekend per month (Visiting parent may designate the weekend but must give custodial parent no less than 72 hours notice) | [blank] 18 months – 3 years | May Occur Outside Custodial Parent's home | 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Saturday and Sunday of 2 weekends per month; 9 a.m. – 6 p.m., Mother's Day/Father's Day, July 4th, Thanksgiving Day; 1 p.m. – 6 p.m., Christmas Day and December 26th and Child's birthday | Visiting parent may designate the two weekends per month but must give custodial parent no less than 7 days notice [File stamp: FILED, DEC 10 2019, Cheryl Fulcher, District Clerk, Hopkins County, Texas (the hour is left blank on the stamp)]
CLAY HARRISON Presiding Judge Hopkins County Court at Law Phone (903) 438-4004 Fax (903) 438-4107 118 Church Street Sulphur Springs, Texas 75482 Visitation Guidelines for Children Under 3 As always, the Court will consider all facts in every case before making a ruling. However, in the interest of consistency and fairness, the Court here publishes its general policy for visitation in cases invo
Reviewer note: Composed 2026-09-19 (AJR-10 Tenth Region build) from BenchPath custody sources/registered/140.pdf (application/pdf, 887322 bytes, sha256 4235ae8ab9984e39f95da9424338eb05eccb8cc0987526190eea31c1bd2fef97; 1 pages) - the TOPICs-registered document: transcribed by eye from the rendered pages of the scanned PDF (no text layer in the file was relied on), machine OCR draft corrected page by page; signature and file-stamp blocks bracketed. One-page image-only PDF typed from the page rendered at high scale; the two four-column tables are set row by row with the cells separated by bars, and every time and date was checked against the image. The guidelines were published in 2019 under the letterhead of the court's judge at the time; the judge has since changed, the registration stands, and no judge join is made.
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