Texas Family Code Title 5, Chapter 101 - Definitions

• Texas Section 101.001 - Applicability Of Definitions
  (a) Definitions in this subchapter apply to this title. (b) If, in another part of this title, a term defined by this chapter has a...
• Texas Section 101.0010 - Acknowledged Father
  "Acknowledged father" means a man who has established a father-child relationship under Chapter 160. Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 821, Sec. 2.04, eff....
• Texas Section 101.0011 - Administrative Writ Of Withholding
  "Administrative writ of withholding" means the document issued by the Title IV-D agency or domestic relations office and delivered to an employer directing that earnings...
• Texas Section 101.0015 - Alleged Father
  (a) "Alleged father" means a man who alleges himself to be, or is alleged to be, the genetic father or a possible genetic father of...
• Texas Section 101.0017 - Amicus Attorney
  "Amicus attorney" has the meaning assigned by Section 107.001. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 172 (H.B. 307), Sec. 15, eff. September 1, 2005.
• Texas Section 101.0018 - Attorney Ad Litem
  "Attorney ad litem" has the meaning assigned by Section 107.001. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 172 (H.B. 307), Sec. 15, eff. September 1,
• Texas Section 101.003 - Child Or Minor; Adult
  (a) "Child" or "minor" means a person under 18 years of age who is not and has not been married or who has not had...
• Texas Section 101.004 - Child Support Agency
  "Child support agency" means: (1) the Title IV-D agency; (2) a county or district attorney or any other county officer or county agency that executes...
• Texas Section 101.005 - Child Support Review Officer
  "Child support review officer" means an individual designated and trained by a child support agency to conduct reviews under this title. Added by Acts 1995,...
• Texas Section 101.006 - Child Support Services
  "Child support services" means administrative or court actions to: (1) establish paternity; (2) establish, modify, or enforce child support or medical support obligations; (3) locate...
• Texas Section 101.006 - Child Support Services
  "Child support services" means administrative or court actions to: (1) establish paternity; (2) establish, modify, or enforce child support, medical support, or dental support obligations;...
• Texas Section 101.007 - Clear And Convincing Evidence
  "Clear and convincing evidence" means the measure or degree of proof that will produce in the mind of the trier of fact a firm belief...
• Texas Section 101.008 - Court
  "Court" means the district court, juvenile court having the same jurisdiction as a district court, or other court expressly given jurisdiction of a suit affecting...
• Texas Section 101.009 - Danger To Physical Health Or Safety Of Child
  "Danger to the physical health or safety of a child" includes exposure of the child to loss or injury that jeopardizes the physical health or...
• Texas Section 101.0094 - Dental Insurance
  "Dental insurance" means insurance coverage that provides preventive dental care and other dental services, including usual dentist services, office visits, examinations, X-rays, and emergency services,...
• Texas Section 101.0095 - Dental Support
  "Dental support" means periodic payments or a lump-sum payment made under an order to cover dental expenses, including dental insurance coverage, incurred for the benefit...
• Texas Section 101.0096 - Digitized Signature
  "Digitized signature" means a graphic image of a handwritten signature having the same legal force and effect for all purposes as a handwritten signature. Added...
• Texas Section 101.010 - Disposable Earnings
  "Disposable earnings" means the part of the earnings of an individual remaining after the deduction from those earnings of any amount required by law to...
• Texas Section 101.011 - Earnings
  "Earnings" means a payment to or due an individual, regardless of source and how denominated. The term includes a periodic or lump-sum payment for: (1)...
• Texas Section 101.012 - Employer
  "Employer" means a person, corporation, partnership, workers' compensation insurance carrier, governmental entity, the United States, or any other entity that pays or owes earnings to...
• Texas Section 101.012 - Employer
  "Employer" means a person, corporation, partnership, workers' compensation insurance carrier, governmental entity, the United States, or any other entity that pays or owes earnings to...
• Texas Section 101.0125 - Family Violence
  "Family violence" has the meaning assigned by Section 71.004. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 787, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
• Texas Section 101.013 - Filed
  "Filed" means officially filed with the clerk of the court. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995.
• Texas Section 101.0133 - Foster Care
  "Foster care" means the placement of a child who is in the conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services and in care outside...
• Texas Section 101.0134 - Foster Child
  "Foster child" means a child who is in the managing conservatorship of the Department of Family and Protective Services. Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg.,...
• Texas Section 101.014 - Governmental Entity
  "Governmental entity" means the state, a political subdivision of the state, or an agency of the state. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20,...
• Texas Section 101.0145 - Guardian Ad Litem
  "Guardian ad litem" has the meaning assigned by Section 107.001. Added by Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 172 (H.B. 307), Sec. 15, eff. September 1,
• Texas Section 101.015 - Health Insurance
  "Health insurance" means insurance coverage that provides basic health care services, including usual physician services, office visits, hospitalization, and laboratory, X-ray, and emergency services, that...
• Texas Section 101.016 - Joint Managing Conservatorship
  "Joint managing conservatorship" means the sharing of the rights and duties of a parent by two parties, ordinarily the parents, even if the exclusive right...
• Texas Section 101.0161 - Judicial Writ Of Withholding
  "Judicial writ of withholding" means the document issued by the clerk of a court and delivered to an employer directing that earnings be withheld for...
• Texas Section 101.017 - Licensed Child Placing Agency
  "Licensed child placing agency" means a person, including an organization or corporation, licensed or certified under Chapter 42, Human Resources Code, by the Department of...
• Texas Section 101.018 - Local Registry
  "Local registry" means a county agency or public entity operated under the authority of a district clerk, county government, juvenile board, juvenile probation office, domestic...
• Texas Section 101.019 - Managing Conservatorship
  "Managing conservatorship" means the relationship between a child and a managing conservator appointed by court order. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec....
• Texas Section 101.020 - Medical Support
  "Medical support" means periodic payments or a lump-sum payment made under an order to cover medical expenses, including health insurance coverage, incurred for the benefit...
• Texas Section 101.0201 - Notice Of Application For Judicial Writ Of Withholding
  "Notice of application for judicial writ of withholding" means the document delivered to an obligor and filed with the court as required by Chapter 158...
• Texas Section 101.021 - Obligee
  "Obligee" means a person or entity entitled to receive payments of child support, including an agency of this state or of another jurisdiction to which...
• Texas Section 101.022 - Obligor
  "Obligor" means a person required to make payments under the terms of a support order for a child. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch....
• Texas Section 101.023 - Order
  "Order" means a final order unless identified as a temporary order or the context clearly requires a different meaning. The term includes a decree and...
• Texas Section 101.024 - Parent
  (a) "Parent" means the mother, a man presumed to be the father, a man legally determined to be the father, a man who has been...
• Texas Section 101.025 - Parent-child Relationship
  "Parent-child relationship" means the legal relationship between a child and the child's parents as provided by Chapter 160. The term includes the mother and child...
• Texas Section 101.0255 - Record
  "Record" means information that is: (1) inscribed on a tangible medium or stored in an electronic or other medium; and (2) retrievable in a perceivable...
• Texas Section 101.026 - Render
  "Render" means the pronouncement by a judge of the court's ruling on a matter. The pronouncement may be made orally in the presence of the...
• Texas Section 101.027 - Parent Locator Service
  "Parent locator service" means the service established under 42 U.S.C. Section 653. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20,
• Texas Section 101.028 - School
  "School" means an elementary or secondary school in which a child is enrolled or, if the child is not enrolled in an elementary or secondary...
• Texas Section 101.029 - Standard Possession Order
  "Standard possession order" means an order that provides a parent with rights of possession of a child in accordance with the terms and conditions of...
• Texas Section 101.030 - State
  "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory or insular possession subject to...
• Texas Section 101.0301 - State Case Registry
  "State case registry" means the registry established and operated by the Title IV-D agency under 42 U.S.C. Section 654a that has responsibility for maintaining records...
• Texas Section 101.0302 - State Disbursement Unit
  "State disbursement unit" means the unit established and operated by the Title IV-D agency under 42 U.S.C. Section 654b that has responsibility for receiving, distributing,...
• Texas Section 101.031 - Suit
  "Suit" means a legal action under this title. Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995. Amended by: Acts...
• Texas Section 101.032 - Suit Affecting The Parent-child Relationship
  (a) "Suit affecting the parent-child relationship" means a suit filed as provided by this title in which the appointment of a managing conservator or a...
• Texas Section 101.033 - Title Iv-d Agency
  "Title IV-D agency" means the state agency designated under Chapter 231 to provide services under Part D of Title IV of the federal Social Security...
• Texas Section 101.034 - Title Iv-d Case
  "Title IV-D case" means an action in which services are provided by the Title IV-D agency under Part D, Title IV, of the federal Social...
• Texas Section 101.034 - Title Iv-d Case
  "Title IV-D case" means an action in which services are provided by the Title IV-D agency under Part D, Title IV, of the federal Social...
• Texas Section 101.035 - Tribunal
  "Tribunal" means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of a state authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage. Added...
• Texas Section 101.036 - Vital Statistics Unit
  "Vital statistics unit" means the vital statistics unit of the Department of State Health Services. Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 556, Sec. 1,...

Last modified: September 28, 2016