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Texas Family Code - Chapter 156 ModificationLegal Research Home > Texas Lawyer > Family Code > Texas Family Code - Chapter 156 Modification A court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction may modify an order that provides for the conservatorship, support, or possession of and access to a child. Added ... (a) A party affected by an order may file a suit for modification in the court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction. (b) A person or entity ... A party whose rights and duties may be affected by a suit for modification is entitled to receive notice by service of citation. Added by ... The Texas Rules of Civil Procedure applicable to the filing of an original lawsuit apply to a suit for modification under this chapter. Added by ... If the court finds that a suit for modification is filed frivolously or is designed to harass a party, the court shall tax attorney's fees ... (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the court may render a temporary order in a suit for modification. (b) While a suit for modification ... The court may modify an order that provides for the appointment of a conservator of a child, that provides the terms and conditions of conservatorship, ... (a) If a suit seeking to modify the designation of the person having the exclusive right to designate the primary residence of a child is ... (a) If a change of residence results in increased expenses for a party having possession of or access to a child, the court may render ... (a) Except as provided by Section 156.1045, the conviction of a conservator, or an order deferring adjudication with regard to the conservator, for an offense ... (a) The conviction or an order deferring adjudication of a person who is a possessory conservator or a sole or joint managing conservator for an ... (a) The military deployment outside this country of a person who is a possessory conservator or a joint managing conservator without the exclusive right to ... (a) Except as provided by Subsection (a-1) or (b), the court may modify an order that provides for the support of a child if: (1) ... (a) The court may consider the child support guidelines for single and multiple families under Chapter 154 to determine whether there has been a material ... A history of support voluntarily provided in excess of the court order does not constitute cause to increase the amount of an existing child support ... (a) The court may not add any portion of the net resources of a new spouse to the net resources of an obligor or obligee ... An increase in the needs, standard of living, or lifestyle of the obligee since the rendition of the existing order does not warrant an increase ... In applying the child support guidelines in a suit under this subchapter, if the obligor has the duty to support children in more than one ... A notice of assignment filed under Chapter 231 does not constitute a modification of an order to pay child support. Added by Acts 1995, 74th ... (a) Unless both parties and the child reside in this state, a court of this state may modify an order of child support rendered by ... (a) If the sole managing conservator of a child or the joint managing conservator who has the exclusive right to determine the primary residence of ... (a) For purposes of Section 156.401, the fact that an obligor has been called into active military service in any branch of the United States ... Texas Lawyers
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