Tex. Fam. Code § 155.005 · Subchapter A. CONTINUING, EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION
JURISDICTION PENDING TRANSFER.
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Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) During the transfer of a suit from a court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction, the transferring court retains jurisdiction to render temporary orders.
(b) The jurisdiction of the transferring court terminates on the docketing of the case in the transferee court.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995.
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.155.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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