Texas Family Code Title 4, Chapter 81 - General Provisions

• Texas Section 81.001 - Entitlement To Protective Order
  A court shall render a protective order as provided by Section 85.001(b) if the court finds that family violence has occurred and is likely to...
• Texas Section 81.0015 - Presumption
  For purposes of this subtitle, there is a presumption that family violence has occurred and is likely to occur in the future if: (1) the...
• Texas Section 81.002 - No Fee For Applicant
  An applicant for a protective order or an attorney representing an applicant may not be assessed a fee, cost, charge, or expense by a district...
• Texas Section 81.003 - Fees And Costs Paid By Party Found To Have Committed Family Violence
  (a) Except on a showing of good cause or of the indigence of a party found to have committed family violence, the court shall require...
• Texas Section 81.004 - Contempt For Nonpayment Of Fee
  (a) A party who is ordered to pay fees and costs and who does not pay before the date specified by the order may be...
• Texas Section 81.005 - Attorney's Fees
  (a) The court may assess reasonable attorney's fees against the party found to have committed family violence or a party against whom an agreed protective...
• Texas Section 81.006 - Payment Of Attorney's Fees
  The amount of fees collected under this chapter as compensation for the fees: (1) of a private attorney shall be paid to the private attorney...
• Texas Section 81.007 - Prosecuting Attorney
  (a) The county attorney or the criminal district attorney is the prosecuting attorney responsible for filing applications under this subtitle unless the district attorney assumes...
• Texas Section 81.0075 - Representation By Prosecuting Attorney In Certain Other Actions
  Subject to the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, a prosecuting attorney is not precluded from representing a party in a proceeding under this subtitle...
• Texas Section 81.008 - Relief Cumulative
  Except as provided by this subtitle, the relief and remedies provided by this subtitle are cumulative of other relief and remedies provided by law. Added...
• Texas Section 81.009 - Appeal
  (a) Except as provided by Subsections (b) and (c), a protective order rendered under this subtitle may be appealed. (b) A protective order rendered against...
• Texas Section 81.010 - Court Enforcement
  (a) A court of this state with jurisdiction of proceedings arising under this title may enforce a protective order rendered by another court in the...
• Texas Section 81.011 - Use Of Digitized Signature
  (a) A digitized signature on an application for a protective order under this title or any other pleading or order in a proceeding under this...

Last modified: September 28, 2016