Tex. Fam. Code § 301.108 · Subchapter C. DISCOVERY REGARDING TESTIFYING EXPERT WITNESSES
EXPERT COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
Communications between a party's attorney and a testifying expert witness in an action subject to this chapter are protected from discovery regardless of the form of the communications, except to the extent that the communications:
(1) relate to compensation for the expert's study or testimony;
(2) identify facts or data that the party's attorney provided and that the expert considered in forming the opinions the expert will express; or
(3) identify assumptions that the party's attorney provided and that the expert relied on in forming the opinions the expert will express.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 844 (H.B. 2850), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2023.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.301.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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