Sec. 153.251.  POLICY AND GENERAL APPLICATION OF GUIDELINES.  (a)  The guidelines established in the standard possession order are intended to guide the courts in ordering the terms and conditions for possession of a child by a parent named as a possessory conservator or as the minimum possession for a joint managing conservator.
(b)  It is the policy of this state to encourage frequent contact between a child and each parent for periods of possession that optimize the development of a close and continuing relationship between each parent and child.
(c)  It is preferable for all children in a family to be together during periods of possession.
(d)  The standard possession order is designed to apply to a child three years of age or older.
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995.