Texas Judge gives 7 year old right to decide custody
Friday, January 16, 2009 by Philly0381 | Discussion: Community
Subject: NEWS FLASH -- Texas Judge gives 7 year old right to decide custody
Texas Judge gives 7 year old right to decide custody.
Dallas, TX, January 15, 2009
A seven year old boy was at the center of a county courtroom drama yesterday when he challenged a court ruling over who should have custody of him. The boy had a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge initially awarded custody to his aunt, in keeping with child custody law and regulation requiring that family unity be maintained to the highest degree possible.
The boy surprised the court when he proclaimed that his aunt beat him more than his parents and he adamantly refused to live with her. When the judge then suggested that he live with his grandparents, the boy cried and said that they also beat him. After considering the remainder of the immediate family and learning that domestic violence was apparently a way of life among them, the judge took the unprecedented step of allowing the boy to propose who should have custody of him.
After two recesses to check legal references and confer with the child welfare officials, the judge granted temporary custody to the Dallas Cowboys, whom the boy firmly believes are not capable of beating anyone.
Reply #2 Friday, January 16, 2009 3:12 PM
I'd love to have been in that huddle. Sure it wasn't the cheerleaders that he wanted?
That's the kind of problem I block on...really tough to tackle. Wonder who was quarterbacking that hearing.
Reply #5 Friday, January 16, 2009 3:42 PM
Is that Dolly Parton on the right hand end? Looks just like her hair. And I think she might be farting! 
Reply #6 Friday, January 16, 2009 4:44 PM
Yup...the photo was cropped (crapped?) there...she blasted the side of the stadium off!
Reply #7 Friday, January 16, 2009 9:56 PM
It's just as well, then, the cops were wearing gas masks... but I don't think that's Dolly Parton. She's top-heavier and can't cheerlead standing upright.
Reply #10 Friday, January 16, 2009 11:54 PM
Not any more... these days I dream about an 'iron' that's safe to use to get wrinkles out of everything I got, not just my longjohn tiddlywhacker.
I've never heard 'it' called that before
Reply #12 Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:03 AM
hehe the guy from woolongong with the tatooed wife's best friend just has his read wog now too.
Reply #14 Saturday, January 17, 2009 8:28 AM
idiocracy seems even more like a likely future to me now....
I think it was a joke, mickeko. Philly probably would have used an external link to the original story if it were true...and a Judge would never award custody of a child to a team. 
Reply #15 Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:27 PM
It's just a joke... we have the same joke here in Oz, but it's the South Sydney Rabitto's instead. 
Reply #16 Saturday, January 17, 2009 12:40 PM
Oh no it's true! 
Just like I'm going to be the next winner on American Idol.
Reply #17 Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:02 PM
I think it was a joke, mickeko. Philly probably would have used an external link to the original story if it were true...and a Judge would never award custody of a child to a team.
I kind of assumed it wasn't true, but well... Some really dumb stuff has "evolved" into the legalsystems of the world over the years... The fact that I thought there was a slight risk that this has a small possibility of actually being true really says alot about how much I trust the legal system. 
Reply #18 Saturday, January 17, 2009 1:26 PM
I think it was a joke, mickeko. Philly probably would have used an external link to the original story if it were true...and a Judge would never award custody of a child to a team.
I kind of assumed it wasn't true, but well... Some really dumb stuff has "evolved" into the legalsystems of the world over the years... The fact that I thought there was a slight risk that this has a small possibility of actually being true really says alot about how much I trust the legal system.
And right you are not to trust it...try this site...true and you'll roll!
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Reply #1 Friday, January 16, 2009 3:07 PM
ouch,that hurt...but the truth usually does.