For much of the twentieth century, Texas family courts had a habit of treating mothers as the default custodial parent and fathers as the visitor. That default is gone. Under the Texas Family Code as it exists today, a father has the same legal rights as a mother — the same right to custody, the same right to make decisions about the child's education and medical care, the same right to build a real day-to-day relationship with the child. The catch is that those rights are no
