Texas Family Code Title 3, Chapter 61 - Rights And Responsibilities Of Parents And Other Eligible Persons

SUBCHAPTER A ENTRY OF ORDERS AGAINST PARENTS AND OTHER ELIGIBLE PERSONS

• Texas Section 61.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Juvenile court order" means an order by a juvenile court in a proceeding to which this chapter applies requiring a parent...
• Texas Section 61.002 - Applicability
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), this chapter applies to a proceeding to enter a juvenile court order: (1) for payment of probation fees...
• Texas Section 61.003 - Entry Of Juvenile Court Order Against Parent Or Other Eligible Person
  (a) To comply with the requirements of due process of law, the juvenile court shall: (1) provide sufficient notice in writing or orally in a...
• Texas Section 61.0031 - Transfer Of Order Affecting Parent Or Other Eligible Person To County Of Child's Residence
  (a) This section applies only when: (1) a juvenile court has placed a parent or other eligible person under a court order under this chapter;...

SUBCHAPTER B ENFORCEMENT OF ORDER AGAINST PARENT OR OTHER ELIGIBLE PERSON

• Texas Section 61.004 - Appeal
  (a) The parent or other eligible person against whom a final juvenile court order has been entered may appeal as provided by law from judgments...
• Texas Section 61.051 - Motion For Enforcement
  (a) A party initiates enforcement of a juvenile court order by filing a written motion. In ordinary and concise language, the motion must: (1) identify...
• Texas Section 61.052 - Notice And Appearance
  (a) On the filing of a motion for enforcement, the court shall by written notice set the date, time, and place of the hearing and...
• Texas Section 61.053 - Attorney For The Person
  (a) In a proceeding on a motion for enforcement where incarceration is a possible punishment against a person who is not represented by an attorney,...
• Texas Section 61.054 - Compensation Of Appointed Attorney
  (a) An attorney appointed to represent an indigent person is entitled to a reasonable fee for services to be paid from the general fund of...
• Texas Section 61.055 - Conduct Of Enforcement Hearing
  (a) The juvenile court shall require that the enforcement hearing be recorded as provided by Section 54.09. (b) The movant must prove beyond a reasonable...
• Texas Section 61.056 - Affirmative Defense Of Inability To Pay
  (a) In an enforcement hearing in which the motion for enforcement alleges that the person against whom enforcement is sought failed to pay restitution, court...

SUBCHAPTER C RIGHTS OF PARENTS

• Texas Section 61.057 - Punishment For Contempt
  (a) On a finding of contempt, the juvenile court may commit the person to the county jail for a term not to exceed six months...
• Texas Section 61.101 - Definition
  In this subchapter, "parent" includes the guardian or custodian of a child. Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 283, Sec. 28, eff. Sept. 1,
• Texas Section 61.102 - Right To Be Informed Of Proceeding
  (a) The parent of a child referred to a juvenile court is entitled as soon as practicable after the referral to be informed by staff...
• Texas Section 61.103 - Right Of Access To Child
  (a) The parent of a child taken into custody for delinquent conduct, conduct indicating a need for supervision, or conduct that violates a condition of...
• Texas Section 61.104 - Parental Written Statement
  (a) When a petition for adjudication, a motion or petition to modify disposition, or a motion or petition for discretionary transfer to criminal court is...
• Texas Section 61.105 - Parental Oral Statement
  (a) After all the evidence has been received but before the arguments of counsel at a hearing for discretionary transfer to criminal court, a disposition...
• Texas Section 61.106 - Appeal Or Collateral Challenge
  The failure or inability of a person to perform an act or to provide a right or service listed under this subchapter may not be...
• Texas Section 61.107 - Liability
  The Texas Juvenile Justice Department, a juvenile board, a court, a person appointed by the court, an employee of a juvenile probation department, an attorney...

Last modified: September 28, 2016