Tex. Fam. Code § 152.312 · Subchapter D. ENFORCEMENT
FEES, COURT COSTS, AND EXPENSES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The court shall award the prevailing party, including a state, reasonable and necessary attorney's fees, court costs, and expenses incurred by or on behalf of the party, including communication expenses, investigative fees, expenses for witnesses, travel expenses, and child care during the course of the proceedings, unless the party from whom fees, costs, or expenses are sought establishes that the award would be clearly inappropriate. The court may order the fees, costs, expenses, and any postjudgment interest to be paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name by any means available for the enforcement of a judgment for debt.
(b) The court may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against a state unless authorized by law other than this chapter.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 34, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 593 (H.B. 2524), Sec. 24, eff. September 1, 2025.
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 593 (H.B. 2524), Sec. 25, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.152.htm
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- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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