The judiciary committee that crafts new court rules in Texas has a new issue to mull: whether litigators who are expecting babies or adopting them should automatically get trial continuances.

Parental leave continuances are an emerging trend in the country: Florida’s Supreme Court is currently weighing a rule change to allow them, and the American Bar Association passed a resolution in January urging other state supreme courts and federal courts to allow new litigator-parents to get trial continuances.