Tex. Fam. Code § 159.301 · Subchapter D. CIVIL PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
PROCEEDINGS UNDER CHAPTER.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this subchapter applies to all proceedings under this chapter.
(b) Repealed by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1247, Sec. 46.
(c) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or foreign country that has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 607, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 1997; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1247, Sec. 13, 46, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 368 (H.B. 3538), Sec. 16, eff. July 1, 2015.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.159.htm
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