Tex. Fam. Code § 42.001 · Chapter 42. CIVIL LIABILITY FOR INTERFERENCE WITH POSSESSORY INTEREST IN CHILD
DEFINITIONS.
Verbatim from the official edition
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Order" means a temporary or final order of a court of this state or another state or nation.
(2) "Possessory right" means a court-ordered right of possession of or access to a child, including conservatorship, custody, and visitation.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.42.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 ff512d161c1975b29c25783ae18c327e07a6ec8053da21f749a1250ed4625b4b
- Composed by
- 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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