Tex. Fam. Code § 262.008 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
ABANDONED CHILDREN.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) An authorized representative of the Department of Family and Protective Services may assume the care, control, and custody of a child:
(1) who is abandoned without identification or a means for identifying the child; and
(2) whose identity cannot be ascertained by the exercise of reasonable diligence.
(b) The department shall immediately file a suit to terminate the parent-child relationship of a child under Subsection (a).
(c) Repealed by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1, Sec. 1.203(5), eff. April 2, 2015.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 600, Sec. 4, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.
Amended by:
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 1.153, eff. April 2, 2015.
Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 1.203(5), eff. April 2, 2015.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.262.htm
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