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• Texas Family Code Section 1.001 - Applicability Of Definitions
  (a) The definitions in this subchapter apply to this title. (b) Except as provided by this subchapter, the definitions in Chapter 101 apply to terms ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.002 - Court
  "Court" means the district court, juvenile court having the jurisdiction of a district court, or other court expressly given jurisdiction of a suit under this ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.003 - Suit For Dissolution Of Marriage
  "Suit for dissolution of a marriage" includes a suit for divorce or annulment or to declare a marriage void. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.101 - Every Marriage Presumed Valid
  In order to promote the public health and welfare and to provide the necessary records, this code specifies detailed rules to be followed in establishing ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.102 - Most Recent Marriage Presumed Valid
  When two or more marriages of a person to different spouses are alleged, the most recent marriage is presumed to be valid as against each ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.103 - Persons Married Elsewhere
  The law of this state applies to persons married elsewhere who are domiciled in this state. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.104 - Capacity Of Spouse
  Except as expressly provided by statute or by the constitution, a person, regardless of age, who has been married in accordance with the law of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.105 - Joinder In Civil Suits
  (a) A spouse may sue and be sued without the joinder of the other spouse. (b) When claims or liabilities are joint and several, the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.106 - Criminal Conversation Not Authorized
  A right of action by one spouse against a third party for criminal conversation is not authorized in this state. Added by Acts 1997, 75th ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.107 - Alienation Of Affection Not Authorized
  A right of action by one spouse against a third party for alienation of affection is not authorized in this state. Added by Acts 1997, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 1.108 - Promise Or Agreement Must Be In Writing
  A promise or agreement made on consideration of marriage or nonmarital conjugal cohabitation is not enforceable unless the promise or agreement or a memorandum of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.001 - Marriage License
  (a) A man and a woman desiring to enter into a ceremonial marriage must obtain a marriage license from the county clerk of any county ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.002 - Application For License
  Except as provided by Section 2.006, each person applying for a license must: (1) appear before the county clerk; (2) submit the person's proof of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.003 - Application For License By Minor
  In addition to the other requirements provided by this chapter, a person under 18 years of age applying for a license must provide to the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.004 - Application Form
  (a) The county clerk shall furnish the application form as prescribed by the bureau of vital statistics. (b) The application form must contain: (1) a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.005 - Proof Of Identity And Age
  (a) The county clerk shall require proof of the identity and age of each applicant. (b) The proof must be established by a certified copy ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.006 - Absent Applicant
  (a) If an applicant is unable to appear personally before the county clerk to apply for a marriage license, any adult person or the other ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.007 - Affidavit Of Absent Applicant
  The affidavit of an absent applicant must include: (1) the absent applicant's full name, including the maiden surname of a female applicant, address, date of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.008 - Execution Of Application By Clerk
  (a) The county clerk shall: (1) determine that all necessary information, other than the date of the marriage ceremony, the county in which the ceremony ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.009 - Issuance Of License
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (d), the county clerk may not issue a license if either applicant: (1) fails to provide the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.010 - Aids Information
  Materials providing information about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) shall be prepared and provided to the clerk by the Texas ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.011 - Recording
  The county clerk shall record all licenses issued by the clerk and all documents submitted with an application for a license or note a summary ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.012 - Violation By County Clerk; Penalty
  A county clerk or deputy county clerk who violates or fails to comply with this subchapter commits an offense. An offense under this section is ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.013 - Premarital Education Requirements; Waiver
  (a) Each person applying for a marriage license is encouraged to attend a premarital education course of at least four hours during the year preceding ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.014 - Family Trust Fund
  (a) The family trust fund is created as a trust fund with the state comptroller and shall be administered by the attorney general for the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.101 - General Age Requirement
  Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter or on a showing that a prior marriage has been dissolved, a county clerk may not issue a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.102 - Parental Consent For Underage Applicant
  (a) If an applicant is 16 years of age or older but under 18 years of age, the county clerk shall issue the license if ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.103 - Court Order For Underage Applicant
  (a) A minor may petition the court in the minor's own name for an order granting permission to marry. In a suit under this section, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.201 - Expiration Of License
  If a marriage ceremony has not been conducted before the 31st day after the date the license is issued, the marriage license expires. Added by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.202 - Persons Authorized To Conduct Ceremony
  (a) The following persons are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony: (1) a licensed or ordained Christian minister or priest; (2) a Jewish rabbi; (3) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.203 - Ceremony
  (a) On receiving an unexpired marriage license, an authorized person may conduct the marriage ceremony as provided by this subchapter. (b) A person unable to ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.204 - 72-Hour Waiting Period; Exceptions
  (a) Except as provided by this section, a marriage ceremony may not take place during the 72-hour period immediately following the issuance of the marriage ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.205 - Discrimination In Conducting Marriage Prohibited
  (a) A person authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony by this subchapter is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, religion, or national origin ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.206 - Return Of License; Penalty
  (a) The person who conducts a marriage ceremony shall record on the license the date on which and the county in which the ceremony is ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.207 - Marriage Conducted After License Expired; Penalty
  (a) A person who is to conduct a marriage ceremony shall determine whether the license has expired from the county clerk's endorsement on the license. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.208 - Recording And Delivery Of License
  (a) The county clerk shall record a returned marriage license and mail the license to the address indicated on the application. (b) On the application ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.209 - Duplicate License
  (a) On the application and proof of identity of a person whose marriage is recorded in the records of the county clerk, the county clerk ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.301 - Fraud, Mistake, Or Illegality In Obtaining License
  Except as otherwise provided by this chapter, the validity of a marriage is not affected by any fraud, mistake, or illegality that occurred in obtaining ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.302 - Ceremony Conducted By Unauthorized Person
  The validity of a marriage is not affected by the lack of authority of the person conducting the marriage ceremony if: (1) there was a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.401 - Proof Of Informal Marriage
  (a) In a judicial, administrative, or other proceeding, the marriage of a man and woman may be proved by evidence that: (1) a declaration of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.402 - Declaration And Registration Of Informal Marriage
  (a) A declaration of informal marriage must be signed on a form prescribed by the bureau of vital statistics and provided by the county clerk. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.403 - Proof Of Identity And Age; Offense
  (a) The county clerk shall require proof of the identity and age of each party to the declaration of informal marriage to be established by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.404 - Recording Of Declaration Of Informal Marriage
  (a) The county clerk shall: (1) determine that all necessary information is recorded on the declaration of informal marriage form and that all necessary documents ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.405 - Violation By County Clerk; Penalty
  A county clerk or deputy county clerk who violates this subchapter commits an offense. An offense under this section is a misdemeanor punishable by a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 2.501 - Duty To Support
  (a) Each spouse has the duty to support the other spouse. (b) A spouse who fails to discharge the duty of support is liable to ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.001 - Separate Property
  A spouse's separate property consists of: (1) the property owned or claimed by the spouse before marriage; (2) the property acquired by the spouse during ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.002 - Community Property
  Community property consists of the property, other than separate property, acquired by either spouse during marriage. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.003 - Presumption Of Community Property
  (a) Property possessed by either spouse during or on dissolution of marriage is presumed to be community property. (b) The degree of proof necessary to ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.004 - Recordation Of Separate Property
  (a) A subscribed and acknowledged schedule of a spouse's separate property may be recorded in the deed records of the county in which the parties, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.005 - Gifts Between Spouses
  If one spouse makes a gift of property to the other spouse, the gift is presumed to include all the income and property that may ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.006 - Proportional Ownership Of Property By Marital Estates
  If the community estate of the spouses and the separate estate of a spouse have an ownership interest in property, the respective ownership interests of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.007 - Property Interest In Certain Employee Benefits
  (a) A spouse who is a participant in a defined benefit retirement plan has a separate property interest in the monthly accrued benefit the spouse ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.008 - Property Interest In Certain Insurance Proceeds
  (a) Insurance proceeds paid or payable that arise from a casualty loss to property during marriage are characterized in the same manner as the property ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.101 - Managing Separate Property
  Each spouse has the sole management, control, and disposition of that spouse's separate property. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.102 - Managing Community Property
  (a) During marriage, each spouse has the sole management, control, and disposition of the community property that the spouse would have owned if single, including: ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.103 - Managing Earnings Of Minor
  Except as provided by Section 264.0111, during the marriage of the parents of an unemancipated minor for whom a managing conservator has not been appointed, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.104 - Protection Of Third Persons
  (a) During marriage, property is presumed to be subject to the sole management, control, and disposition of a spouse if it is held in that ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.201 - Spousal Liability
  (a) A person is personally liable for the acts of the person's spouse only if: (1) the spouse acts as an agent for the person; ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.202 - Rules Of Marital Property Liability
  (a) A spouse's separate property is not subject to liabilities of the other spouse unless both spouses are liable by other rules of law. (b) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.203 - Order In Which Property Is Subject To Execution
  (a) A judge may determine, as deemed just and equitable, the order in which particular separate or community property is subject to execution and sale ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.301 - Missing, Abandoned, Or Separated Spouse
  (a) A spouse may file a sworn petition stating the facts that make it desirable for the petitioning spouse to manage, control, and dispose of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.302 - Spouse Missing On Public Service
  (a) If a spouse is reported by an executive department of the United States to be a prisoner of war or missing on the public ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.303 - Appointment Of Attorney
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the court may appoint an attorney in a suit filed under this subchapter for the respondent. (b) The ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.304 - Notice Of Hearing; Citation
  (a) Notice of the hearing, accompanied by a copy of the petition, shall be issued and served on the attorney representing the respondent, if an ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.305 - Citation By Publication
  (a) If the residence of the respondent, other than a respondent reported to be a prisoner of war or missing on public service, is unknown, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.306 - Court Order For Management, Control, And Disposition Of Community Property
  (a) After hearing the evidence in a suit under this subchapter, the court, on terms the court considers just and equitable, shall render an order ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.307 - Continuing Jurisdiction Of Court; Vacating Original Order
  (a) The court has continuing jurisdiction over the court's order rendered under this subchapter. (b) On the motion of either spouse, the court shall amend ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.308 - Recording Order To Affect Real Property
  An order authorized by this subchapter affecting real property is not constructive notice to a good faith purchaser for value or to a creditor without ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.309 - Remedies Cumulative
  The remedies provided in this subchapter are cumulative of other rights, powers, and remedies afforded spouses by law. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.401 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Claim for economic contribution" means a claim made under this subchapter. (2) "Economic contribution" means the contribution to a marital estate ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.402 - Economic Contribution
  (a) For purposes of this subchapter, "economic contribution" is the dollar amount of: (1) the reduction of the principal amount of a debt secured by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.403 - Claim Based On Economic Contribution
  (a) A marital estate that makes an economic contribution to property owned by another marital estate has a claim for economic contribution with respect to ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.404 - Application Of Inception Of Title Rule; Ownership Interest Not Created
  (a) This subchapter does not affect the rule of inception of title under which the character of property is determined at the time the right ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.405 - Management Rights
  This subchapter does not affect the right to manage, control, or dispose of marital property as provided by this chapter. Added by Acts 1999, 76th ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.406 - Equitable Lien
  (a) On dissolution of a marriage, the court shall impose an equitable lien on property of a marital estate to secure a claim for economic ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.407 - Offsetting Claims
  The court shall offset a claim for one marital estate's economic contribution in a specific asset of a second marital estate against the second marital ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.408 - Claim For Reimbursement
  (a) A claim for economic contribution does not abrogate another claim for reimbursement in a factual circumstance not covered by this subchapter. In the case ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.409 - Nonreimbursable Claims
  The court may not recognize a marital estate's claim for reimbursement for: (1) the payment of child support, alimony, or spousal maintenance; (2) the living ...
• Texas Family Code Section 3.410 - Effect Of Marital Property Agreements
  A premarital or marital property agreement, whether executed before, on, or after September 1, 1999, that satisfies the requirements of Chapter 4 is effective to ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.001 - Definitions
  In this subchapter: (1) "Premarital agreement" means an agreement between prospective spouses made in contemplation of marriage and to be effective on marriage. (2) "Property" ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.002 - Formalities
  A premarital agreement must be in writing and signed by both parties. The agreement is enforceable without consideration. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.003 - Content
  (a) The parties to a premarital agreement may contract with respect to: (1) the rights and obligations of each of the parties in any of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.004 - Effect Of Marriage
  A premarital agreement becomes effective on marriage. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April 17, 1997. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.005 - Amendment Or Revocation
  After marriage, a premarital agreement may be amended or revoked only by a written agreement signed by the parties. The amended agreement or the revocation ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.006 - Enforcement
  (a) A premarital agreement is not enforceable if the party against whom enforcement is requested proves that: (1) the party did not sign the agreement ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.007 - Enforcement: Void Marriage
  If a marriage is determined to be void, an agreement that would otherwise have been a premarital agreement is enforceable only to the extent necessary ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.008 - Limitation Of Actions
  A statute of limitations applicable to an action asserting a claim for relief under a premarital agreement is tolled during the marriage of the parties ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.009 - Application And Construction
  This subchapter shall be applied and construed to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this subchapter ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.010 - Short Title
  This subchapter may be cited as the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April 17, 1997. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "property" has the meaning assigned by Section 4.001. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April 17, 1997. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.102 - Partition Or Exchange Of Community Property
  At any time, the spouses may partition or exchange between themselves all or part of their community property, then existing or to be acquired, as ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.103 - Agreement Between Spouses Concerning Income Or Property From Separate Property
  At any time, the spouses may agree that the income or property arising from the separate property that is then owned by one of them, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.104 - Formalities
  A partition or exchange agreement under Section 4.102 or an agreement under Section 4.103 must be in writing and signed by both parties. Either agreement ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.105 - Enforcement
  (a) A partition or exchange agreement is not enforceable if the party against whom enforcement is requested proves that: (1) the party did not sign ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.106 - Rights Of Creditors And Recordation Under Partition Or Exchange Agreement
  (a) A provision of a partition or exchange agreement made under this subchapter is void with respect to the rights of a preexisting creditor whose ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.201 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "property" has the meaning assigned by Section 4.001. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 692, § 3, eff. Jan. 1, 2000. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.202 - Agreement To Convert To Community Property
  At any time, spouses may agree that all or part of the separate property owned by either or both spouses is converted to community property. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.203 - Formalities Of Agreement
  (a) An agreement to convert separate property to community property: (1) must be in writing and: (A) be signed by the spouses; (B) identify the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.204 - Management Of Converted Property
  Except as specified in the agreement to convert the property and as provided by Subchapter B, Chapter 3, and other law, property converted to community ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.205 - Enforcement
  (a) An agreement to convert property to community property under this subchapter is not enforceable if the spouse against whom enforcement is sought proves that ...
• Texas Family Code Section 4.206 - Rights Of Creditors; Recording
  (a) A conversion of separate property to community property does not affect the rights of a preexisting creditor of the spouse whose separate property is ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.001 - Sale, Conveyance, Or Encumbrance Of Homestead
  Whether the homestead is the separate property of either spouse or community property, neither spouse may sell, convey, or encumber the homestead without the joinder ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.002 - Sale Of Separate Homestead After Spouse Judicially Declared Incapacitated
  If the homestead is the separate property of a spouse and the other spouse has been judicially declared incapacitated by a court exercising original jurisdiction ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.003 - Sale Of Community Homestead After Spouse Judicially Declared Incapacitated
  If the homestead is the community property of the spouses and one spouse has been judicially declared incapacitated by a court exercising original jurisdiction over ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.101 - Sale Of Separate Homestead Under Unusual Circumstances
  If the homestead is the separate property of a spouse, that spouse may file a sworn petition that gives a description of the property, states ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.102 - Sale Of Community Homestead Under Unusual Circumstances
  If the homestead is the community property of the spouses, one spouse may file a sworn petition that gives a description of the property, states ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.103 - Time For Filing Petition
  The petitioning spouse may file the petition in a court of the county in which any portion of the property is located not earlier than ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.104 - Appointment Of Attorney
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the court may appoint an attorney in a suit filed under this subchapter for the respondent. (b) The ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.105 - Citation; Notice Of Hearing
  Citation and notice of hearing for a suit filed as provided by this subchapter shall be issued and served in the manner provided in Subchapter ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.106 - Court Order
  (a) After notice and hearing, the court shall render an order the court deems just and equitable with respect to the sale, conveyance, or encumbrance ...
• Texas Family Code Section 5.108 - Remedies And Powers Cumulative
  The remedies and the powers of a spouse provided by this subchapter are cumulative of the other rights, powers, and remedies afforded the spouses by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.001 - Insupportability
  On the petition of either party to a marriage, the court may grant a divorce without regard to fault if the marriage has become insupportable ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.002 - Cruelty
  The court may grant a divorce in favor of one spouse if the other spouse is guilty of cruel treatment toward the complaining spouse of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.003 - Adultery
  The court may grant a divorce in favor of one spouse if the other spouse has committed adultery. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.004 - Conviction Of Felony
  (a) The court may grant a divorce in favor of one spouse if during the marriage the other spouse: (1) has been convicted of a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.005 - Abandonment
  The court may grant a divorce in favor of one spouse if the other spouse: (1) left the complaining spouse with the intention of abandonment; ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.006 - Living Apart
  The court may grant a divorce in favor of either spouse if the spouses have lived apart without cohabitation for at least three years. Added ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.007 - Confinement In Mental Hospital
  The court may grant a divorce in favor of one spouse if at the time the suit is filed: (1) the other spouse has been ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.008 - Defenses
  (a) The defenses to a suit for divorce of recrimination and adultery are abolished. (b) Condonation is a defense to a suit for divorce only ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.101 - Annulment Of Marriage Of Person Under Age 16
  (a) The court may grant an annulment of a licensed marriage of a person under 16 years of age unless a court order has been ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.102 - Annulment Of Marriage Of Person Under Age 18
  (a) The court may grant an annulment of a licensed or informal marriage of a person 16 years of age or older but under 18 ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.103 - Underage Annulment Barred By Adulthood
  A suit to annul a marriage may not be filed under Section 6.101 or 6.102 by a parent, managing conservator, or guardian of a person ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.104 - Discretionary Annulment Of Underage Marriage
  (a) An annulment under Section 6.101 or 6.102 of a marriage may be granted at the discretion of the court sitting without a jury. (b) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.105 - Under Influence Of Alcohol Or Narcotics
  The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if: (1) at the time of the marriage the petitioner ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.106 - Impotency
  The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if: (1) either party, for physical or mental reasons, was ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.107 - Fraud, Duress, Or Force
  The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if: (1) the other party used fraud, duress, or force ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.108 - Mental Incapacity
  (a) The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage on the suit of the party or the party's ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.109 - Concealed Divorce
  (a) The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if: (1) the other party was divorced from a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.110 - Marriage Less Than 72 Hours After Issuance Of License
  (a) The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if the marriage ceremony took place in violation of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.111 - Death Of Party To Voidable Marriage
  A marriage subject to annulment may not be challenged in a proceeding instituted after the death of either party to the marriage. Added by Acts ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.201 - Consanguinity
  A marriage is void if one party to the marriage is related to the other as: (1) an ancestor or descendant, by blood or adoption; ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.202 - Marriage During Existence Of Prior Marriage
  (a) A marriage is void if entered into when either party has an existing marriage to another person that has not been dissolved by legal ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.203 - Certain Void Marriages Validated
  Except for a marriage that would have been void under Section 6.201, a marriage that was entered into before January 1, 1970, in violation of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.204 - Recognition Of Same-Sex Marriage Or Civil Union
  (a) In this section, "civil union" means any relationship status other than marriage that: (1) is intended as an alternative to marriage or applies primarily ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.205 - Marriage To Minor
  A marriage is void if either party to the marriage is younger than 16 years of age. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ch. 268, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.206 - Marriage To Stepchild Or Stepparent
  A marriage is void if a party is a current or former stepchild or stepparent of the other party. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.301 - General Residency Rule For Divorce Suit
  A suit for divorce may not be maintained in this state unless at the time the suit is filed either the petitioner or the respondent ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.302 - Suit For Divorce By Nonresident Spouse
  If one spouse has been a domiciliary of this state for at least the last six months, a spouse domiciled in another state or nation ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.303 - Absence On Public Service
  Time spent by a Texas domiciliary outside this state or outside the county of residence of the domiciliary while in the service of the armed ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.304 - Armed Forces Personnel Not Previously Residents
  A person not previously a resident of this state who is serving in the armed forces of the United States and has been stationed at ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.305 - Acquiring Jurisdiction Over Nonresident Respondent
  (a) If the petitioner in a suit for dissolution of a marriage is a resident or a domiciliary of this state at the time the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.306 - Jurisdiction To Annul Marriage
  (a) A suit for annulment of a marriage may be maintained in this state only if the parties were married in this state or if ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.307 - Jurisdiction To Declare Marriage Void
  (a) Either party to a marriage made void by this chapter may sue to have the marriage declared void, or the court may declare the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.308 - Exercising Partial Jurisdiction
  (a) A court in which a suit for dissolution of a marriage is filed may exercise its jurisdiction over those portions of the suit for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.401 - Caption
  (a) Pleadings in a suit for divorce or annulment shall be styled "In the Matter of the Marriage of __________ and __________." (b) Pleadings in ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.402 - Pleadings
  (a) A petition in a suit for dissolution of a marriage is sufficient without the necessity of specifying the underlying evidentiary facts if the petition ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.403 - Answer
  The respondent in a suit for dissolution of a marriage is not required to answer on oath or affirmation. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.4035 - Waiver Of Service
  (a) A party to a suit for the dissolution of a marriage may waive the issuance or service of process after the suit is filed ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.404 - Information Regarding Protective Orders
  At any time while a suit for dissolution of a marriage is pending, if the court believes, on the basis of any information received by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.405 - Protective Order
  (a) The petition in a suit for dissolution of a marriage must state whether a protective order under Title 4 is in effect or if ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.406 - Mandatory Joinder Of Suit Affecting Parent-Child Relationship
  (a) The petition in a suit for dissolution of a marriage shall state whether there are children born or adopted of the marriage who are ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.407 - Transfer Of Suit Affecting Parent-Child Relationship To Divorce Court
  (a) If a suit affecting the parent-child relationship is pending at the time the suit for dissolution of a marriage is filed, the suit affecting ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.408 - Service Of Citation
  Citation on the filing of an original petition in a suit for dissolution of a marriage shall be issued and served as in other civil ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.409 - Citation By Publication
  (a) Citation in a suit for dissolution of a marriage may be by publication as in other civil cases, except that notice shall be published ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.410 - Report To Accompany Petition
  At the time a petition for divorce or annulment of a marriage is filed, the petitioner shall also file a completed report that may be ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.411 - Confidentiality Of Pleadings
  (a) This section applies only in a county with a population of 3.4 million or more. (b) Except as otherwise provided by law, all pleadings ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.501 - Temporary Restraining Order
  (a) After the filing of a suit for dissolution of a marriage, on the motion of a party or on the court's own motion, the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.502 - Temporary Injunction And Other Temporary Orders
  (a) While a suit for dissolution of a marriage is pending and on the motion of a party or on the court's own motion after ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.503 - Affidavit, Verified Pleading, And Bond Not Required
  (a) A temporary restraining order or temporary injunction under this subchapter: (1) may be granted without an affidavit or a verified pleading stating specific facts ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.504 - Protective Orders
  On the motion of a party to a suit for dissolution of a marriage, the court may render a protective order as provided by Subtitle ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.505 - Counseling
  (a) While a divorce suit is pending, the court may direct the parties to counsel with a person named by the court. (b) The person ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.506 - Contempt
  The violation of a temporary restraining order, temporary injunction, or other temporary order issued under this subchapter is punishable as contempt. Added by Acts 1997, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.507 - Interlocutory Appeal
  An order under this subchapter, except an order appointing a receiver, is not subject to interlocutory appeal. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.601 - Arbitration Procedures
  (a) On written agreement of the parties, the court may refer a suit for dissolution of a marriage to arbitration. The agreement must state whether ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.602 - Mediation Procedures
  (a) On the written agreement of the parties or on the court's own motion, the court may refer a suit for dissolution of a marriage ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.603 - Collaborative Law
  (a) On a written agreement of the parties and their attorneys, a dissolution of marriage proceeding may be conducted under collaborative law procedures. (b) Collaborative ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.604 - Informal Settlement Conference
  (a) The parties to a suit for dissolution of a marriage may agree to one or more informal settlement conferences and may agree that the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.701 - Failure To Answer
  In a suit for divorce, the petition may not be taken as confessed if the respondent does not file an answer. Added by Acts 1997, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.702 - Waiting Period
  (a) The court may not grant a divorce before the 60th day after the date the suit was filed. A decree rendered in violation of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.703 - Jury
  In a suit for dissolution of a marriage, either party may demand a jury trial unless the action is a suit to annul an underage ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.704 - Testimony Of Husband Or Wife
  (a) In a suit for dissolution of a marriage, the husband and wife are competent witnesses for and against each other. A spouse may not ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.705 - Testimony By Marriage Counselor
  (a) The report by the person named by the court to counsel the parties to a suit for divorce may not be admitted as evidence ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.706 - Change Of Name
  (a) In a decree of divorce or annulment, the court shall change the name of a party specifically requesting the change to a name previously ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.707 - Transfers And Debts Pending Decree
  (a) A transfer of real or personal community property or a debt incurred by a spouse while a suit for divorce or annulment is pending ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.708 - Costs
  (a) In a suit for dissolution of a marriage, the court as it considers reasonable may award costs to a party. Costs may not be ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.709 - Temporary Orders During Appeal
  (a) Not later than the 30th day after the date an appeal is perfected, on the motion of a party or on the court's own ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.710 - Copy Of Decree
  The clerk of the court shall mail a copy of the final decree of dissolution of a marriage to the party who waived service of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.711 - Findings Of Fact And Conclusions Of Law
  (a) In a suit for dissolution of a marriage in which the court has rendered a judgment dividing the estate of the parties, on request ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.801 - Remarriage
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, neither party to a divorce may marry a third party before the 31st day after the date ...
• Texas Family Code Section 6.802 - Waiver Of Prohibition Against Remarriage
  For good cause shown the court may waive the prohibition against remarriage provided by this subchapter as to either or both spouses if a record ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.001 - General Rule Of Property Division
  In a decree of divorce or annulment, the court shall order a division of the estate of the parties in a manner that the court ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.002 - Division And Disposition Of Certain Property Under Special Circumstances
  (a) In addition to the division of the estate of the parties required by Section 7.001, in a decree of divorce or annulment the court ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.003 - Disposition Of Retirement And Employment Benefits And Other Plans
  In a decree of divorce or annulment, the court shall determine the rights of both spouses in a pension, retirement plan, annuity, individual retirement account, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.004 - Disposition Of Rights In Insurance
  In a decree of divorce or annulment, the court shall specifically divide or award the rights of each spouse in an insurance policy. Added by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.005 - Insurance Coverage Not Specifically Awarded
  (a) If in a decree of divorce or annulment the court does not specifically award all of the rights of the spouses in an insurance ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.006 - Agreement Incident To Divorce Or Annulment
  (a) To promote amicable settlement of disputes in a suit for divorce or annulment, the spouses may enter into a written agreement concerning the division ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.007 - Disposition Of Claim For Economic Contribution Or Claim For Reimbursement
  (a) In a decree of divorce or annulment, the court shall determine the rights of both spouses in a claim for economic contribution as provided ...
• Texas Family Code Section 7.008 - Consideration Of Taxes
  In ordering the division of the estate of the parties to a suit for dissolution of a marriage, the court may consider: (1) whether a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Maintenance" means an award in a suit for dissolution of a marriage of periodic payments from the future income of one ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.051 - Eligibility For Maintenance; Court Order
  In a suit for dissolution of a marriage or in a proceeding for maintenance in a court with personal jurisdiction over both former spouses following ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.052 - Factors In Determining Maintenance
  A court that determines that a spouse is eligible to receive maintenance under this chapter shall determine the nature, amount, duration, and manner of periodic ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.053 - Presumption
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), it is presumed that maintenance under Section 8.051(2) is not warranted unless the spouse seeking maintenance has exercised ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.054 - Duration Of Maintenance Order
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a court: (1) may not order maintenance that remains in effect for more than three years after the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.055 - Amount Of Maintenance
  (a) A court may not order maintenance that requires an obligor to pay monthly more than the lesser of: (1) $2,500; or (2) 20 percent ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.056 - Termination
  (a) The obligation to pay future maintenance terminates on the death of either party or on the remarriage of the obligee. (b) After a hearing, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.057 - Modification Of Maintenance Order
  (a) The amount of maintenance specified in a court order or the portion of a decree that provides for the support of a former spouse ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.058 - Maintenance Arrearages
  A spousal maintenance payment not timely made constitutes an arrearage. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 807, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.059 - Enforcement Of Maintenance Order
  (a) The court may enforce by contempt the court's maintenance order or an agreement for the payment of maintenance voluntarily entered into between the parties ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.060 - Putative Spouse
  In a suit to declare a marriage void, a putative spouse who did not have knowledge of an existing impediment to a valid marriage may ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.061 - Unmarried Cohabitants
  An order for maintenance is not authorized between unmarried cohabitants under any circumstances. Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.101 - Income Withholding; General Rule
  (a) In a proceeding in which periodic payments of spousal maintenance are ordered, modified, or enforced, the court may order that income be withheld from ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.102 - Withholding For Arrearages In Addition To Current Spousal Maintenance
  (a) The court may order that, in addition to income withheld for current spousal maintenance, income be withheld from the disposable earnings of the obligor ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.103 - Withholding For Arrearages When Current Maintenance Is Not Due
  A court may order income withholding to be applied toward arrearages in an amount sufficient to discharge those arrearages in not more than two years ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.104 - Withholding To Satisfy Judgment For Arrearages
  The court, in rendering a cumulative judgment for arrearages, may order that a reasonable amount of income be withheld from the disposable earnings of the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.105 - Priority Of Withholding
  An order or writ of withholding under this chapter has priority over any garnishment, attachment, execution, or other order affecting disposable earnings, except for an ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.106 - Maximum Amount Withheld From Earnings
  An order or writ of withholding must direct that an obligor's employer withhold from the obligor's disposable earnings the lesser of: (1) the amount specified ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.107 - Order Or Writ Binding On Employer Doing Business In This State
  An order or writ of withholding issued under this chapter and delivered to an employer doing business in this state is binding on the employer ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.108 - Voluntary Writ Of Withholding By Obligor
  (a) An obligor may file with the clerk of the court a notarized or acknowledged request signed by the obligor and the obligee for the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.151 - Time Limit
  The court may issue an order or writ for withholding under this chapter at any time before all spousal maintenance and arrearages are paid. Added ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.152 - Contents Of Order Of Withholding
  (a) An order of withholding must state: (1) the style, cause number, and court having jurisdiction to enforce the order; (2) the name, address, and, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.153 - Request For Issuance Of Order Or Writ Of Withholding
  An obligor or obligee may file with the clerk of the court a request for issuance of an order or writ of withholding. Added by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.154 - Issuance And Delivery Of Order Or Writ Of Withholding
  (a) On receipt of a request for issuance of an order or writ of withholding, the clerk of the court shall deliver a certified copy ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.201 - Order Or Writ Binding On Employer
  (a) An employer required to withhold income from earnings under this chapter is not entitled to notice of the proceedings before the order of withholding ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.202 - Effective Date And Duration Of Income Withholding
  An employer shall begin to withhold income in accordance with an order or writ of withholding not later than the first pay period after the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.203 - Remitting Withheld Payments
  (a) The employer shall remit to the person or office named in the order or writ of withholding the amount of income withheld from an ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.204 - Employer May Deduct Fee From Earnings
  An employer may deduct an administrative fee of not more than $5 each month from the obligor's disposable earnings in addition to the amount withheld ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.205 - Hearing Requested By Employer
  (a) Not later than the 20th day after the date an order or writ of withholding is delivered to an employer, the employer may file ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.206 - Liability And Obligation Of Employer For Payments
  (a) An employer who complies with an order or writ of withholding under this chapter is not liable to the obligor for the amount of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.207 - Employer Receiving Multiple Orders Or Writs
  (a) An employer who receives more than one order or writ of withholding to withhold income from the same obligor shall withhold the combined amounts ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.208 - Employer's Liability For Discriminatory Hiring Or Discharge
  (a) An employer may not use an order or writ of withholding as grounds in whole or part for the termination of employment of, or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.209 - Penalty For Noncompliance
  (a) In addition to the civil remedies provided by this subchapter or any other remedy provided by law, an employer who knowingly violates this chapter ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.210 - Notice Of Termination Of Employment And Of New Employment
  (a) An obligor who terminates employment with an employer who has been withholding income and the obligor's employer shall each notify the court and the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.251 - Notice Of Application For Writ Of Withholding; Filing
  (a) An obligor or obligee may file a notice of application for a writ of withholding if income withholding was not ordered at the time ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.252 - Contents Of Notice Of Application For Writ Of Withholding
  The notice of application for a writ of withholding must be verified and: (1) state the amount of monthly maintenance due, including the amount of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.253 - Interstate Request For Withholding
  (a) The registration of a foreign order that provides for spousal maintenance or alimony as provided in Chapter 159 is sufficient for filing a notice ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.254 - Additional Arrearages
  If the notice of application for a writ of withholding states that the obligor has failed to pay more than one spousal maintenance payment according ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.255 - Delivery Of Notice Of Application For Writ Of Withholding; Time Of Delivery
  (a) The party who files a notice of application for a writ of withholding shall deliver the notice to the obligor by: (1) first-class or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.256 - Motion To Stay Issuance Of Writ Of Withholding
  (a) The obligor may stay issuance of a writ of withholding by filing a motion to stay with the clerk of the court not later ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.257 - Effect Of Filing Motion To Stay
  If the obligor files a motion to stay as provided by Section 8.256, the clerk of the court may not deliver the writ of withholding ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.258 - Hearing On Motion To Stay
  (a) If the obligor files a motion to stay as provided by Section 8.256, the court shall set a hearing on the motion and the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.259 - Special Exceptions
  (a) A defect in a notice of application for a writ of withholding is waived unless the respondent specially excepts in writing and cites with ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.260 - Writ Of Withholding After Arrearages Are Paid
  (a) The court may not refuse to order withholding solely on the basis that the obligor paid the arrearages after the obligor received the notice ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.261 - Request For Issuance And Delivery Of Writ Of Withholding
  (a) If a notice of application for a writ of withholding is delivered and the obligor does not file a motion to stay within the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.262 - Issuance And Delivery Of Writ Of Withholding
  The clerk of the court shall, on the filing of a request for issuance of a writ of withholding, issue and deliver the writ as ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.263 - Contents Of Writ Of Withholding
  A writ of withholding must direct that an obligor's employer or a subsequent employer withhold from the obligor's disposable earnings an amount for current spousal ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.264 - Extension Of Repayment Schedule By Party; Unreasonable Hardship
  A party who files a notice of application for a writ of withholding and who determines that the schedule for repaying arrearages would cause unreasonable ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.265 - Remittance Of Amount To Be Withheld
  The obligor's employer shall remit the amount withheld to the person or office named in the writ on each pay date and shall include with ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.266 - Failure To Receive Notice Of Application For Writ Of Withholding
  (a) Not later than the 30th day after the date of the first pay period after the date the obligor's employer receives a writ of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.267 - Issuance And Delivery Of Writ Of Withholding To Subsequent Employer
  (a) After the clerk of the court issues a writ of withholding, a party authorized to file a notice of application for a writ of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.301 - Agreement By Parties Regarding Amount Or Duration Of Withholding
  (a) An obligor and obligee may agree to reduce or terminate income withholding for spousal maintenance on the occurrence of any contingency stated in the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.302 - Modifications To Or Termination Of Withholding In Voluntary Withholding Cases
  (a) If an obligor initiates voluntary withholding under Section 8.108, the obligee may file with the clerk of the court a notarized request signed by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.303 - Termination Of Withholding In Mandatory Withholding Cases
  (a) An obligor for whom withholding for maintenance owed or withholding for maintenance and child support owed is mandatory may file a motion to terminate ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.304 - Delivery Of Order Of Reduction Or Termination Of Withholding
  Any person may deliver to the obligor's employer a certified copy of an order that reduces the amount of spousal maintenance to be withheld or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 8.305 - Liability Of Employers
  The provisions of this chapter regarding the liability of employers for withholding apply to an order that reduces or terminates withholding. Added by Acts 2001, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.001 - Enforcement Of Decree
  (a) A party affected by a decree of divorce or annulment providing for a division of property as provided by Chapter 7 may request enforcement ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.002 - Continuing Authority To Enforce Decree
  The court that rendered the decree of divorce or annulment retains the power to enforce the property division as provided by Chapter 7. Added by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.003 - Filing Deadlines
  (a) A suit to enforce the division of tangible personal property in existence at the time of the decree of divorce or annulment must be ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.004 - Applicability To Undivided Property
  The procedures and limitations of this subchapter do not apply to existing property not divided on divorce, which are governed by Subchapter C and by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.005 - No Jury
  A party may not demand a jury trial if the procedures to enforce a decree of divorce or annulment provided by this subchapter are invoked. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.006 - Enforcement Of Division Of Property
  (a) Except as provided by this subchapter and by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, the court may render further orders to enforce the division ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.007 - Limitation On Power Of Court To Enforce
  (a) A court may not amend, modify, alter, or change the division of property made or approved in the decree of divorce or annulment. An ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.008 - Clarification Order
  (a) On the request of a party or on the court's own motion, the court may render a clarifying order before a motion for contempt ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.009 - Delivery Of Property
  To enforce the division of property made in a decree of divorce or annulment, the court may make an order to deliver the specific existing ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.010 - Reduction To Money Judgment
  (a) If a party fails to comply with a decree of divorce or annulment and delivery of property awarded in the decree is no longer ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.011 - Right To Future Property
  (a) The court may, by any remedy provided by this chapter, enforce an award of the right to receive installment payments or a lump-sum payment ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.012 - Contempt
  (a) The court may enforce by contempt an order requiring delivery of specific property or an award of a right to future property. (b) The ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.013 - Costs
  The court may award costs in a proceeding to enforce a property division under this subchapter as in other civil cases. Added by Acts 1997, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.014 - Attorney's Fees
  The court may award reasonable attorney's fees as costs in a proceeding under this subchapter. The court may order the attorney's fees to be paid ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.101 - Jurisdiction For Qualified Domestic Relations Order
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the court that rendered a final decree of divorce or annulment or another final order dividing property ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.102 - Procedure
  (a) A party to a decree of divorce or annulment may petition the court for a qualified domestic relations order or similar order. (b) Except ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.103 - Prior Failure To Render Qualified Domestic Relations Order
  A party may petition a court to render a qualified domestic relations order or similar order if the court that rendered a final decree of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.104 - Defective Prior Domestic Relations Order
  If a plan administrator or other person acting in an equivalent capacity determines that a domestic relations order does not satisfy the requirements of a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.1045 - Amendment Of Qualified Domestic Relations Order
  (a) A court that renders a qualified domestic relations order retains continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to amend the order to correct the order or clarify the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.105 - Liberal Construction
  The court shall liberally construe this subchapter to effect payment of retirement benefits that were divided by a previous decree that failed to contain a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.201 - Procedure For Division Of Certain Property Not Divided On Divorce Or Annulment
  (a) Either former spouse may file a suit as provided by this subchapter to divide property not divided or awarded to a spouse in a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.202 - Limitations
  (a) A suit under this subchapter must be filed before the second anniversary of the date a former spouse unequivocally repudiates the existence of the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.203 - Division Of Undivided Assets When Prior Court Had Jurisdiction
  (a) If a court of this state failed to dispose of property subject to division in a final decree of divorce or annulment even though ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.204 - Division Of Undivided Assets When Prior Court Lacked Jurisdiction
  (a) If a court of this state failed to dispose of property subject to division in a final decree of divorce or annulment because the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.205 - Attorney's Fees
  In a proceeding to divide property previously undivided in a decree of divorce or annulment as provided by this subchapter, the court may award reasonable ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.301 - Pre-Decree Designation Of Ex-Spouse As Beneficiary Of Life Insurance
  (a) If a decree of divorce or annulment is rendered after an insured has designated the insured's spouse as a beneficiary under a life insurance ...
• Texas Family Code Section 9.302 - Pre-Decree Designation Of Ex-Spouse As Beneficiary In Retirement Benefits And Other Financial Plans
  (a) If a decree of divorce or annulment is rendered after a spouse, acting in the capacity of a participant, annuitant, or account holder, has ...
• Texas Family Code Section 31.001 - Requirements
  (a) A minor may petition to have the disabilities of minority removed for limited or general purposes if the minor is: (1) a resident of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 31.002 - Requisites Of Petition; Verification
  (a) The petition for removal of disabilities of minority must state: (1) the name, age, and place of residence of the petitioner; (2) the name ...
• Texas Family Code Section 31.003 - Venue
  The petitioner shall file the petition in the county in which the petitioner resides. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 31.004 - Representation Of Petitioner
  The court shall appoint an amicus attorney or attorney ad litem to represent the interest of the petitioner at the hearing. Amended by Acts 1995, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 31.005 - Order
  The court by order, or the Texas Supreme Court by rule or order, may remove the disabilities of minority of a minor, including any restriction ...
• Texas Family Code Section 31.006 - Effect Of General Removal
  Except for specific constitutional and statutory age requirements, a minor whose disabilities are removed for general purposes has the capacity of an adult, including the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 31.007 - Registration Of Order Of Another State Or Nation
  (a) A nonresident minor who has had the disabilities of minority removed in the state of the minor's residence may file a certified copy of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.001 - Consent By Non-Parent
  (a) The following persons may consent to medical, dental, psychological, and surgical treatment of a child when the person having the right to consent as ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.002 - Consent Form
  (a) Consent to medical treatment under this subchapter must be in writing, signed by the person giving consent, and given to the doctor, hospital, or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.003 - Consent To Treatment By Child
  (a) A child may consent to medical, dental, psychological, and surgical treatment for the child by a licensed physician or dentist if the child: (1) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.004 - Consent To Counseling
  (a) A child may consent to counseling for: (1) suicide prevention; (2) chemical addiction or dependency; or (3) sexual, physical, or emotional abuse. (b) A ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.005 - Examination Without Consent Of Abuse Or Neglect Of Child
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a physician, dentist, or psychologist having reasonable grounds to believe that a child's physical or mental condition has ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.101 - Who May Consent To Immunization Of Child
  (a) In addition to persons authorized to consent to immunization under Chapter 151 and Chapter 153, the following persons may consent to the immunization of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.102 - Informed Consent To Immunization
  (a) A person authorized to consent to the immunization of a child has the responsibility to ensure that the consent, if given, is an informed ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.103 - Limited Liability For Immunization
  (a) In the absence of wilful misconduct or gross negligence, a health care provider who accepts the health history and other information given by a ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.201 - Emergency Shelter Or Care For Minors
  (a) An emergency shelter facility may provide shelter and care to a minor and the minor's child or children, if any. (b) An emergency shelter ...
• Texas Family Code Section 32.202 - Consent To Emergency Shelter Or Care By Minor
  (a) A minor may consent to emergency shelter or care to be provided to the minor or the minor's child or children, if any, under ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Abortion" means the use of any means to terminate the pregnancy of a female known by the attending physician to be ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.002 - Parental Notice
  (a) A physician may not perform an abortion on a pregnant unemancipated minor unless: (1) the physician performing the abortion gives at least 48 hours ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.003 - Judicial Approval
  (a) A pregnant minor who wishes to have an abortion without notification to one of her parents, her managing conservator, or her guardian may file ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.004 - Appeal
  (a) A minor whose application under Section 33.003 is denied may appeal to the court of appeals having jurisdiction over civil matters in the county ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.005 - Affidavit Of Physician
  (a) A physician may execute for inclusion in the minor's medical record an affidavit stating that, after reasonable inquiry, it is the belief of the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.006 - Guardian Ad Litem Immunity
  A guardian ad litem appointed under this chapter and acting in the course and scope of the appointment is not liable for damages arising from ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.007 - Costs Paid By State
  (a) A court acting under Section 33.003 or 33.004 may issue an order requiring the state to pay: (1) the cost of any attorney ad ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.008 - Physician's Duty To Report Abuse Of A Minor; Investigation And Assistance
  (a) A physician who has reason to believe that a minor has been or may be physically or sexually abused by a person responsible for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.009 - Other Reports Of Sexual Abuse Of A Minor
  A court or the guardian ad litem or attorney ad litem for the minor shall report conduct reasonably believed to violate Section 22.011, 22.021, or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.010 - Confidentiality
  Notwithstanding any other law, information obtained by the Department of Protective and Regulatory Services or another entity under Section 33.008 or 33.009 is confidential except ...
• Texas Family Code Section 33.011 - Information Relating To Judicial Bypass
  The Texas Department of Health shall produce and distribute informational materials that explain the rights of a minor under this chapter. The materials must explain ...
• Texas Family Code Section 41.001 - Liability
  A parent or other person who has the duty of control and reasonable discipline of a child is liable for any property damage proximately caused ...
• Texas Family Code Section 41.002 - Limit Of Damages
  Recovery for damage caused by wilful and malicious conduct is limited to actual damages, not to exceed $25,000 per occurrence, plus court costs and reasonable ...
• Texas Family Code Section 41.0025 - Liability For Property Damage To An Inn Or Hotel
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 41.002, recovery of damages by an inn or hotel for wilful and malicious conduct is limited to actual damages, not to exceed ...
• Texas Family Code Section 41.003 - Venue
  A suit as provided by this chapter may be filed in the county in which the conduct of the child occurred or in the county ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Order" means a temporary or final order of a court of this state or another state or nation. (2) "Possessory right" ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.002 - Liability For Interference With Possessory Right
  (a) A person who takes or retains possession of a child or who conceals the whereabouts of a child in violation of a possessory right ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.003 - Aiding Or Assisting Interference With Possessory Right
  (a) A person who aids or assists in conduct for which a cause of action is authorized by this chapter is jointly and severally liable ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.005 - Venue
  A suit may be filed in a county in which: (1) the plaintiff resides; (2) the defendant resides; (3) a suit affecting the parent-child relationship ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.006 - Damages
  (a) Damages may include: (1) the actual costs and expenses incurred, including attorney's fees, in: (A) locating a child who is the subject of the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.007 - Affirmative Defense
  The defendant may plead as an affirmative defense that the defendant acted in violation of the order with the express consent of the plaintiff. Amended ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.008 - Remedies Not Affected
  This chapter does not affect any other civil or criminal remedy available to any person, including the child, for interference with a possessory right, nor ...
• Texas Family Code Section 42.009 - Frivolous Suit
  A person sued for damages as provided by this chapter is entitled to recover attorney's fees and court costs if: (1) the claim for damages ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.001 - Who May File; Venue
  A parent, managing conservator, or guardian of a child may file a petition requesting a change of name of the child in the county where ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.002 - Requirements Of Petition
  (a) A petition to change the name of a child must be verified and include: (1) the present name and place of residence of the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.003 - Citation
  (a) The following persons are entitled to citation in a suit under this subchapter: (1) a parent of the child whose parental rights have not ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.004 - Order
  (a) The court may order the name of a child changed if: (1) the change is in the best interest of the child; and (2) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.005 - Liabilities And Rights Unaffected
  A change of name does not: (1) release a child from any liability incurred in the child's previous name; or (2) defeat any right the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.101 - Who May File; Venue
  An adult may file a petition requesting a change of name in the county of the adult's place of residence. Amended by Acts 1995, 74th ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.102 - Requirements Of Petition
  (a) A petition to change the name of an adult must be verified and include: (1) the present name and place of residence of the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.103 - Order
  (a) The court shall order a change of name under this subchapter for a person other than a person with a final felony conviction or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.104 - Liabilities And Rights Unaffected
  A change of name under this subchapter does not release a person from liability incurred in that person's previous name or defeat any right the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.105 - Change Of Name In Divorce Suit
  (a) On the final disposition of a suit for divorce, for annulment, or to declare a marriage void, the court shall enter a decree changing ...
• Texas Family Code Section 45.106 - Change Of Name Certificate
  (a) A person whose name is changed under Section 6.706 or 45.105 may apply to the clerk of the court ordering the name change for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.01 - Purpose And Interpretation
  This title shall be construed to effectuate the following public purposes: (1) to provide for the protection of the public and public safety; (2) consistent ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.02 - Definitions
  In this title: (1) "Aggravated controlled substance felony" means an offense under Subchapter D, Chapter 481, Health and Safety Code, that is punishable by: (A) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.03 - Delinquent Conduct; Conduct Indicating A Need For Supervision
  (a) Delinquent conduct is: (1) conduct, other than a traffic offense, that violates a penal law of this state or of the United States punishable ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.031 - Habitual Felony Conduct
  (a) Habitual felony conduct is conduct violating a penal law of the grade of felony, other than a state jail felony, if: (1) the child ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.04 - Jurisdiction
  (a) This title covers the proceedings in all cases involving the delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision engaged in by a person ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.041 - Jurisdiction After Appeal
  (a) The court retains jurisdiction over a person, without regard to the age of the person, for conduct engaged in by the person before becoming ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.0411 - Jurisdiction For Transfer Or Release Hearing
  The court retains jurisdiction over a person, without regard to the age of the person, who is referred to the court under Section 54.11 for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.0412 - Jurisdiction Over Incomplete Proceedings
  The court retains jurisdiction over a person, without regard to the age of the person, who is a respondent in an adjudication proceeding, a disposition ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.042 - Objection To Jurisdiction Because Of Age Of The Child
  (a) A child who objects to the jurisdiction of the court over the child because of the age of the child must raise the objection ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.045 - Juries In County Courts At Law
  If a provision of this title requires a jury of 12 persons, that provision prevails over any other law that limits the number of members ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.05 - Court Sessions And Facilities
  (a) The juvenile court shall be deemed in session at all times. Suitable quarters shall be provided by the commissioners court of each county for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.06 - Venue
  (a) A proceeding under this title shall be commenced in (1) the county in which the alleged delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.07 - Transfer To Another County For Disposition
  When a child has been found to have engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision under Section 54.03, the juvenile court ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.071 - Transfer Of Probation Supervision Between Counties: Courtesy Supervision Prohibited
  Except as provided by Section 51.075, a juvenile court or juvenile probation department may not engage in the practice of courtesy supervision of a child ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.072 - Transfer Of Probation Supervision Between Counties: Interim Supervision
  (a) In this section: (1) "Receiving county" means the county to which a child on probation has moved or intends to move. (2) "Sending county" ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.073 - Transfer Of Probation Supervision Between Counties: Permanent Supervision
  (a) In this section: (1) "Receiving county" means the county to which a child on probation has moved or intends to move. (2) "Sending county" ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.074 - Transfer Of Probation Supervision Between Counties: Deferred Prosecution
  A juvenile court may transfer interim supervision, but not permanent supervision, to the county where a child on deferred prosecution resides. Added by Acts 2005, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.075 - Collaborative Supervision Between Adjoining Counties
  (a) If a child who is on probation in one county spends substantial time in an adjoining county, including residing, attending school, or working in ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.08 - Transfer From Criminal Court
  (a) If the defendant in a criminal proceeding is a child who is charged with an offense other than perjury, a traffic offense, a misdemeanor ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.09 - Waiver Of Rights
  Unless a contrary intent clearly appears elsewhere in this title, any right granted to a child by this title or by the constitution or laws ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.095 - Admissibility Of A Statement Of A Child
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 51.09, the statement of a child is admissible in evidence in any future proceeding concerning the matter about which the statement was ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.10 - Right To Assistance Of Attorney; Compensation
  (a) A child may be represented by an attorney at every stage of proceedings under this title, including: (1) the detention hearing required by Section ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.101 - Appointment Of Attorney And Continuation Of Representation
  (a) If an attorney is appointed at the initial detention hearing and the child is detained, the attorney shall continue to represent the child until ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.102 - Appointment Of Counsel Plan
  (a) The juvenile board in each county shall adopt a plan that: (1) specifies the qualifications necessary for an attorney to be included on an ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.11 - Guardian Ad Litem
  (a) If a child appears before the juvenile court without a parent or guardian, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to protect the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.115 - Attendance At Hearing: Parent Or Other Guardian
  (a) Each parent of a child, each managing and possessory conservator of a child, each court-appointed custodian of a child, and a guardian of the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.116 - Right To Reemployment
  (a) An employer may not terminate the employment of a permanent employee because the employee is required under Section 51.115 to attend a hearing. (b) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.12 - Place And Conditions Of Detention
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (h), a child may be detained only in a: (1) juvenile processing office in compliance with Section 52.025; (2) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.13 - Effect Of Adjudication Or Disposition
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (d), an order of adjudication or disposition in a proceeding under this title is not a conviction of crime. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.151 - Polygraph Examination
  If a child is taken into custody under Section 52.01 of this code, a person may not administer a polygraph examination to the child without ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.17 - Procedure And Evidence
  (a) Except for the burden of proof to be borne by the state in adjudicating a child to be delinquent or in need of supervision ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.18 - Election Between Juvenile Court And Alternate Juvenile Court
  (a) This section applies only to a child who has a right to a trial before a juvenile court the judge of which is not ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.19 - Limitation Periods
  (a) The limitation periods and the procedures for applying the limitation periods under Chapter 12, Code of Criminal Procedure, and other statutory law apply to ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.20 - Physical Or Mental Examination
  (a) At any stage of the proceedings under this title, the juvenile court may order a child who is referred to the juvenile court or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 51.21 - Mental Health Screening And Referral
  (a) A probation department that administers the mental health screening instrument or clinical assessment required by Section 141.042(e), Human Resources Code, shall refer the child ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.01 - Taking Into Custody; Issuance Of Warning Notice
  (a) A child may be taken into custody: (1) pursuant to an order of the juvenile court under the provisions of this subtitle; (2) pursuant ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.015 - Directive To Apprehend
  (a) On the request of a law-enforcement or probation officer, a juvenile court may issue a directive to apprehend a child if the court finds ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.0151 - Bench Warrant; Attachment Of Witness In Custody
  (a) If a witness is in a placement in the custody of the Texas Youth Commission, a juvenile secure detention facility, or a juvenile secure ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.02 - Release Or Delivery To Court
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (c), a person taking a child into custody, without unnecessary delay and without first taking the child to any ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.025 - Designation Of Juvenile Processing Office
  (a) The juvenile board may designate an office or a room, which may be located in a police facility or sheriff's offices, as the juvenile ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.026 - Responsibility For Transporting Juvenile Offenders
  (a) It shall be the duty of the law enforcement officer who has taken a child into custody to transport the child to the appropriate ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.03 - Disposition Without Referral To Court
  (a) A law-enforcement officer authorized by this title to take a child into custody may dispose of the case of a child taken into custody ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.031 - First Offender Program
  (a) A juvenile board may establish a first offender program under this section for the referral and disposition of children taken into custody for: (1) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.032 - Informal Disposition Guidelines
  The juvenile board of each county, in cooperation with each law enforcement agency in the county, shall adopt guidelines for the disposition of a child ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.04 - Referral To Juvenile Court; Notice To Parents
  (a) The following shall accompany referral of a child or a child's case to the office or official designated by the juvenile board or be ...
• Texas Family Code Section 52.041 - Referral Of Child To Juvenile Court After Expulsion
  (a) A school district that expels a child shall refer the child to juvenile court in the county in which the child resides. (b) The ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.01 - Preliminary Investigation And Determinations; Notice To Parents
  (a) On referral of a person believed to be a child or on referral of the person's case to the office or official designated by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.012 - Review By Prosecutor
  (a) The prosecuting attorney shall promptly review the circumstances and allegations of a referral made under Section 53.01 for legal sufficiency and the desirability of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.013 - Progressive Sanctions Program
  Each juvenile board may adopt a progressive sanctions program using the model for progressive sanctions in Chapter 59. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.02 - Release From Detention
  (a) If a child is brought before the court or delivered to a detention facility as authorized by Sections 51.12(a)(3) and (4), the intake or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.03 - Deferred Prosecution
  (a) Subject to Subsections (e) and (g), if the preliminary investigation required by Section 53.01 of this code results in a determination that further proceedings ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.035 - Grand Jury Referral
  (a) The prosecuting attorney may, before filing a petition under Section 53.04, refer an offense to a grand jury in the county in which the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.04 - Court Petition; Answer
  (a) If the preliminary investigation, required by Section 53.01 of this code results in a determination that further proceedings are authorized and warranted, a petition ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.045 - Violent Or Habitual Offenders
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), the prosecuting attorney may refer the petition to the grand jury of the county in which the court ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.05 - Time Set For Hearing
  (a) After the petition has been filed, the juvenile court shall set a time for the hearing. (b) The time set for the hearing shall ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.06 - Summons
  (a) The juvenile court shall direct issuance of a summons to: (1) the child named in the petition; (2) the child's parent, guardian, or custodian; ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.07 - Service Of Summons
  (a) If a person to be served with a summons is in this state and can be found, the summons shall be served upon him ...
• Texas Family Code Section 53.08 - Writ Of Attachment
  (a) The juvenile court may issue a writ of attachment for a person who violates an order entered under Section 53.06(c). (b) A writ of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.01 - Detention Hearing
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (p), if the child is not released under Section 53.02, a detention hearing without a jury shall be held ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.011 - Detention Hearings For Status Offenders And Nonoffenders; Penalty
  (a) The detention hearing for a status offender or nonoffender who has not been released administratively under Section 53.02 shall be held before the 24th ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.012 - Interactive Video Recording Of Detention Hearing
  (a) A detention hearing under Section 54.01 may be held using interactive video equipment if: (1) the child and the child's attorney agree to the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.02 - Waiver Of Jurisdiction And Discretionary Transfer To Criminal Court
  (a) The juvenile court may waive its exclusive original jurisdiction and transfer a child to the appropriate district court or criminal district court for criminal ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.021 - County, Justice, Or Municipal Court: Truancy
  (a) The juvenile court may waive its exclusive original jurisdiction and transfer a child to the constitutional county court, if the county has a population ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.03 - Adjudication Hearing
  (a) A child may be found to have engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision only after an adjudication hearing conducted ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.031 - Hearsay Statement Of Child Abuse Victim
  (a) This section applies to a hearing under this title in which a child is alleged to be a delinquent child on the basis of ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.032 - Deferral Of Adjudication And Dismissal Of Certain Cases On Completion Of Teen Court Program
  (a) A juvenile court may defer adjudication proceedings under Section 54.03 for not more than 180 days if the child: (1) is alleged to have ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.033 - Sexually Transmitted Disease, Aids, And Hiv Testing
  (a) A child found at the conclusion of an adjudication hearing under Section 54.03 of this code to have engaged in delinquent conduct that included ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.034 - Limited Right To Appeal: Warning
  Before the court may accept a child's plea or stipulation of evidence in a proceeding held under this title, the court shall inform the child ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.04 - Disposition Hearing
  (a) The disposition hearing shall be separate, distinct, and subsequent to the adjudication hearing. There is no right to a jury at the disposition hearing ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.0405 - Child Placed On Probation For Conduct Constituting Sexual Offense
  (a) If a court or jury makes a disposition under Section 54.04 in which a child described by Subsection (b) is placed on probation, the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.0406 - Child Placed On Probation For Conduct Involving A Handgun
  (a) If a court or jury places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d) for conduct that violates a penal law that includes as an ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.0407 - Cruelty To Animals: Counseling Required
  If a child is found to have engaged in delinquent conduct constituting an offense under Section 42.09, Penal Code, the juvenile court shall order the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.0408 - Referral Of Child Exiting Probation To Mental Health Or Mental Retardation Authority
  A juvenile probation officer shall refer a child who has been determined to have a mental illness or mental retardation to an appropriate local mental ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.041 - Orders Affecting Parents And Others
  (a) When a child has been found to have engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision and the juvenile court has ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.0411 - Juvenile Probation Diversion Fund
  (a) If a disposition hearing is held under Section 54.04 of this code, the juvenile court, after giving the child, parent, or other person responsible ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.042 - License Suspension
  (a) A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section 54.04, shall: (1) order the Department of Public Safety to suspend a child's driver's license ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.043 - Monitoring School Attendance
  If the court places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d) and requires as a condition of probation that the child attend school, the probation ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.044 - Community Service
  (a) If the court places a child on probation under Section 54.04(d), the court shall require as a condition of probation that the child work ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.045 - Admission Of Unadjudicated Conduct
  (a) During a disposition hearing under Section 54.04, a child may: (1) admit having engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.046 - Conditions Of Probation For Damaging Property With Graffiti
  (a) If a juvenile court places on probation under Section 54.04(d) a child adjudicated as having engaged in conduct in violation of Section 28.08, Penal ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.0461 - Payment Of Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Fees
  (a) If a child is adjudicated as having engaged in delinquent conduct that violates Section 28.08, Penal Code, the juvenile court shall order the child, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.047 - Alcohol Related Offense
  If the court or jury finds at an adjudication hearing for a child that the child engaged in conduct indicating a need for supervision or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.048 - Restitution
  (a) A juvenile court, in a disposition hearing under Section 54.04, may order restitution to be made by the child and the child's parents. (b) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.049 - Conditions Of Probation For Desecrating A Cemetery Or Abusing A Corpse
  (a) If a juvenile court places on probation under Section 54.04(d) a child adjudicated to have engaged in conduct in violation of Section 28.03(f), Penal ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.05 - Hearing To Modify Disposition
  (a) Any disposition, except a commitment to the Texas Youth Commission, may be modified by the juvenile court as provided in this section until: (1) ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.051 - Transfer Of Determinate Sentence Probation To Appropriate District Court
  (a) On motion of the state concerning a child who is placed on probation under Section 54.04(q) for a period, including any extension ordered under ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.06 - Judgments For Support
  (a) At any stage of the proceeding, when a child has been placed outside the child's home, the juvenile court, after giving the parent or ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.061 - Payment Of Probation Fees
  (a) If a child is placed on probation under Section 54.04(d)(1) of this code, the juvenile court, after giving the child, parent, or other person ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.07 - Enforcement Of Order
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b) or a juvenile court child support order, any order of the juvenile court may be enforced as provided ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.08 - Public Access To Court Hearings
  (a) Except as provided by this section, the court shall open hearings under this title to the public unless the court, for good cause shown, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.09 - Recording Of Proceedings
  All judicial proceedings under this chapter except detention hearings shall be recorded by stenographic notes or by electronic, mechanical, or other appropriate means. Upon request ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.10 - Hearings Before Referee
  Text of subsec. (a) effective until date on which Interstate Compact for Juveniles takes effect. (a) Except as provided by Subsection (e), a hearing ...
• Texas Family Code Section 54.11 - Release Or Transfer Hearing
  (a) On receipt of a referral under Section 61.079(a), Human Resources Code, for the transfer to the institutional division of the Texas Department of Criminal ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.01 - Meaning Of "Having A Mental Illness"
  For purposes of this chapter, a child who is described as having a mental illness means a child who suffers from mental illness as defined ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.02 - Mental Health And Mental Retardation Jurisdiction
  For the purpose of initiating proceedings to order mental health or mental retardation services for a child or for commitment of a child as provided ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.03 - Standards Of Care
  (a) Except as provided by this chapter, a child for whom inpatient mental health services is ordered by a court under this chapter shall be ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.11 - Mental Illness Determination; Examination
  (a) On a motion by a party, the juvenile court shall determine whether probable cause exists to believe that a child who is alleged by ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.12 - Initiation Of Commitment Proceedings
  If, after considering all relevant information, the juvenile court determines that evidence exists to support a finding that a child has a mental illness and ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.13 - Commitment Proceedings In Juvenile Court
  (a) If the juvenile court initiates proceedings for temporary or extended mental health services under Section 55.12(1), the prosecuting attorney or the attorney for the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.14 - Referral For Commitment Proceedings
  (a) If the juvenile court refers the child's case to the appropriate court for the initiation of commitment proceedings under Section 55.12(2), the juvenile court ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.15 - Standards Of Care; Expiration Of Court Order For Mental Health Services
  If the juvenile court or a court to which the child's case is referred under Section 55.12(2) orders mental health services for the child, the ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.16 - Order For Mental Health Services; Stay Of Proceedings
  (a) If the court to which the child's case is referred under Section 55.12(2) orders temporary or extended inpatient mental health services for the child, ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.17 - Mental Health Services Not Ordered; Dissolution Of Stay
  (a) If the court to which a child's case is referred under Section 55.12(2) does not order temporary or extended inpatient mental health services for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.18 - Discharge From Mental Health Facility Before Reaching 18 Years Of Age
  If the child is discharged from the mental health facility before reaching 18 years of age, the juvenile court may: (1) dismiss the juvenile court ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.19 - Transfer To Criminal Court On 18th Birthday
  (a) The juvenile court shall transfer all pending proceedings from the juvenile court to a criminal court on the 18th birthday of a child for ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.31 - Unfitness To Proceed Determination; Examination
  (a) A child alleged by petition or found to have engaged in delinquent conduct or conduct indicating a need for supervision who as a result ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.32 - Hearing On Issue Of Fitness To Proceed
  (a) If the juvenile court determines that evidence exists to support a finding that a child is unfit to proceed as a result of mental ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.33 - Proceedings Following Finding Of Unfitness To Proceed
  (a) If the juvenile court or jury determines under Section 55.32 that a child is unfit to proceed with the juvenile court proceedings for delinquent ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.34 - Transportation To And From Facility
  (a) If the court issues a placement order under Section 55.33(a)(1), the court shall order the probation department or sheriff's department to transport the child ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.35 - Information Required To Be Sent To Facility; Report To Court
  (a) If the juvenile court issues a placement order under Section 55.33(a), the court shall order the probation department to send copies of any information ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.36 - Report That Child Is Fit To Proceed; Hearing On Objection
  (a) If a report submitted under Section 55.35(b) states that a child is fit to proceed, the juvenile court shall find that the child is ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.37 - Report That Child Is Unfit To Proceed As A Result Of Mental Illness; Initiation Of Commitment Proceedings
  If a report submitted under Section 55.35(b) states that a child is unfit to proceed as a result of mental illness and that the child ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.38 - Commitment Proceedings In Juvenile Court For Mental Illness
  (a) If the juvenile court initiates commitment proceedings under Section 55.37(1), the prosecuting attorney may file with the juvenile court an application for court-ordered mental ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.39 - Referral For Commitment Proceedings For Mental Illness
  (a) If the juvenile court refers the child's case to an appropriate court for the initiation of commitment proceedings under Section 55.37(2), the juvenile court ...
• Texas Family Code Section 55.40 - Report That Child Is Unfit To Proceed As A Result Of Mental Retardation