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Texas Family Code - Section 157.007. Affirmative Defense To Motion For Enforcement Of Possession Or Access

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§ 157.007. AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE TO MOTION FOR ENFORCEMENT 
OF POSSESSION OR ACCESS.  (a) The respondent may plead as an 
affirmative defense to contempt for failure to comply with an order 
for possession or access to a child that the movant voluntarily 
relinquished actual possession and control of the child.
	(b)  The voluntary relinquishment must have been for the time 
encompassed by the court-ordered periods during which the 
respondent is alleged to have interfered.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.           

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