Welcome to the Texas Parental Rights Association.

1.  Is there any cost to join the TexasPRA?  No, there is no fee or any other cost to join the TexasPRA and be equally entitled to the same federal court relief for your own personal family court case, other than we simply direct you to help make as much social media noise as often as possible.  There is strength in numbers, so just blast away daily!

2.  Can I join the Membership of the class action against Texas if I live in another State?  Yes, absolutely, as it is all about being victimized by a court of Texas, not where you currently live.  However, for complex legal reasons well beyond a mere website discussion, that still requires you to live within any of the 50 States themselves, and not in DC, nor in any of the Island Territories, nor in any foreign nation.  As long as you live within any of the 50 States, and meet the other criteria, you are eligible.

3.  Am I still eligible if I have a pending state appeal, pending state mandamus, federal lawsuit or other related case?  Most likely, yes.  The "duplicative-litigation doctrine" (also known as the parallel litigation doctrine) is that legal doctrine prohibiting the simultaneous existence of more than one court case over the same legal issues, with the same facts, involving the same parties.  Very most likely, your other case only involves yourself, the opposing parent, and perhaps a judge or two along with maybe opposing counsel also.  By definition, your other case will certainly not involve the same set of legal arguments as this class action lawsuit, and also almost certainly not the particular parties defendant being sued for relief in this class action.  Hence, without being about the same legal challenges, facts, or parties, your other case - whatever it may be - therefore does not disqualify you from registering yourself into this class action lawsuit and also receiving that federal declaratory relief.

4.  What attorney or attorneys are representing the Class?  None.  The Class is being represented by the Association itself as a pro se group, by right of law.  And there are no less than five (5) clear legal reasons for this purposeful strategic decision:
Reason A
There are literally tons of pro se group litigation case law rulings upon every 1st Amendment and 14th Amendment aspect thereof, including from the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, and plenty more.  We HAVE the right, and that is enough, all by itself.
Reason B
It would not only be blatant class discrimination, but also be directly serious antitrust violations, i.e., of the Sherman Act, Clayton Act, and etc., for the legal professionals to attempt to monopolize access to the courts to and for only the legal professionals themselves, also again violating core principles of the 1st and 14th Amendments.
Reason C
By express Texas state law, all three (3) named Defendants have already duly admitted, and have also grandfathered into their mutually well established policy and practice for many years, that nonattorneys (i.e., pro se people) are deemed equal to and/or even better than licensed professional attorneys.  Texas Government Code, Sec. 81.020 requires inclusion of six (6) nonattorneys on the Board of Directors for the Texas State Bar, i.e., nonattorneys who have various *superior* authorities over the general membership of the State Bar, i.e., over every licensed Texas attorney.  That same Board of Directors also has various committees, and nonattorneys also exist upon those committees, as allowed by Sec. 81.026 of the Code.  Nonattorneys are even on the disciplinary rules committee as is required by Texas law, Sec. 81.0872 of the same Government Code, which means nonattorneys actually perform real supervision over every licensed attorney in Texas.  Indeed, even the Unauthorized Practice of Law ("UPL") Committee is required by Texas law to consist of 1/3rd nonattorneys... which is one of the most ironic situations an enlightened person could ever see.  In short, any reasonable person would have to admit and say that, under Texas law, nonattorneys are perfectly authorized to supervise and control licensed professional attorneys.
Reason D
The main federal class action rule, Rule 23, specifically paragraph (g) thereof, requires that designated class counsel be actually competent counsel upon the legal issues raised....  This points to the glaring and disturbing fact that not a single judge or attorney anywhere in Texas at any level of the state court system has ever raised even one of these arguments yet, ever, let alone addressed it.  We're talking about multiple decades since the 1970s, when federalization of family law happened, and some total of two million or more (2M+) Texas supreme court justices, Texas appellate court justices, regular Texas judges all over creation, and all of those many "super lawyers" and the "brightest" of Texas attorneys during all these same many years being "board certified" specialists in family law, and yet not a single freaking one of them -- NOT ONE -- has ever raised even one -- NOT EVEN ONE -- of these five (5) most obvious fundamental due process issues.  We're not talking about mere total incompetency of all Texas judges and attorneys regarding these most serious of glaring family law constitutional issues.  We're talking about an obvious conspiracy to keep the truth from the general public, while at the same time they all knew the real deal within CPS cases, i.e., clear and convincing evidence, full due process rights, and especially that all natural parents already have full pre-existing custody rights from the beginning.  We have identified, worked with, raised, and are fully prepared to litigate these serious constitutional issues.  Texas judges and attorneys are, and have always been, clearly incompetent to these issues, and we can certainly talk more about why that has always been so..., if they really, really wish to explore, even deeper, the ramifications of such gross malpractice victimizing parents and their basic rights statewide for decades.
Reason E
Next, there is the obvious fact that, because - by state law - every attorney in Texas must be licensed by, and must also be a member of, the State Bar of Texas, we certainly cannot be forced into unwanted representation by an agent and actor of one of the Defendants in our lawsuit!  How many ways and types of ways can you spell "grossly manifest direct conflict of interest" and how many different times and ways would that be triggered under numerous provisions of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct?  We most certainly will not be using, nor be forced to use, any attorney professionally licensed by Defendant State Bar of Texas, whatsoever.
Reason F
And finally, while not technically a legal reason, we could just never trust any professionally licensed attorney to actually act fully in our true best interest, ever, whatsoever.  We have the right to litigate pro se as a group with like-minded interests, they cannot constitutionally force us to use any attorney, and if we get any lip about it at all, any lip whatsoever, we will just amend this declaratory relief class action into a full-blown damages class action against the entire family law industry in Texas, including criminal charges that under federal law are mandatory in these situations, not discretionary at all.  And we would be literally talking about multiple trillions of dollars in damages, considering over one million victimized parents, each with at least one child also falsely victimized, and each of those two million plus victims of Texas courts being entitled to at least an absolute bare minimum of $1M in damages apiece for having their entire lives fraudulently stolen and wrecked, for the illicit profit of falsified billable hours.  Oh yeah, it adds up into trillions real quick....  We will not tolerate any debate about who will represent the Class.  We will.  The end.  Or else.

5.  My personal Texas family court case was done and over years ago.  Even though I am not eligible to join under the two-year statute of limitations, do I still win any relief from the federal court from this class action lawsuit?  Yes.  Void orders and void cases are still void.  And with that *change* in status of your prior case, due to the federal court declaring all such cases as void, you are then entitled under law to get back whatever was lost that can still be regained.  That means you also will be entitled to full refund of any child support monies taken from you, restoral of any state-issued license that was suspended or otherwise, vacatur of any related vexatious litigant classification, and so forth and so on.  If your child is now an adult, then obviously you no longer can actually get any "make up" parenting time, but then you'll be entitled instead to go after civil damages for that irreparable injury of deprivation of parent-child relationship (loss of society and companionship, as to each child).

6.  Does the class action name and sue as Defendants any particular judges, attorneys, or others?  No.  By definition, a "class action" must be strictly about only things that are universally common to ALL of the Class Members (class co-plaintiffs), and hence there are no particular attorneys or judges named, or anybody else like that, with the sole exception of Chief Justice Blacklock in his top dog official capacity over all of the Texas courts, for declaratory relief only, i.e., to have the federal court compel actual compliance with fundamental rights (of child custody by natural parents) under constitutional due process.  However, after the class wins that basic due process for all Texan families, and your case has been declared as void, then you will have solid grounds to consider against personal actors in your own case history.

7.  Are there any plans for launching such class action lawsuits against other States?  Yes.  While Texans will deal with Texas, advocates from multiple other States are seeing the victory at hand, and presently formulating their own action plans to follow suit (pun intended literally).  We further note that if advocates within just the four (4) States of Texas, California, Florida and New York each launch class action lawsuits, that will cover a whopping one-third (1/3rd) of the entire American population.

8.  Must I also be a U.S. citizen to be eligible?  No.  The 14th Amendment applies to every "person" within the jurisdiction of a federal court.

9.  Will there be posted any more FAQs soon?  Yes, probably at least a few to several more, so stay tuned.

We ask that you PLEASE DO SUPPORT OUR MISSION by (1) widely sharing the news, (2) requesting to join into the TexasPRA Leadership after registering as an eligible Member, (3) planning ahead to attend The Big Event in Austin on July 20th, and/or (4) securely donating via our GiveSendGo campaign to help defray the many expenses involved in successfully accomplishing this most important and truly historic mission.

Thank you very much for any and all acts of support to finally get the job done, once and for all!