Tex. Fam. Code § 6.109 · Subchapter B. GROUNDS FOR ANNULMENT
CONCEALED DIVORCE.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) The court may grant an annulment of a marriage to a party to the marriage if:
(1) the other party was divorced from a third party within the 30-day period preceding the date of the marriage ceremony;
(2) at the time of the marriage ceremony the petitioner did not know, and a reasonably prudent person would not have known, of the divorce; and
(3) since the petitioner discovered or a reasonably prudent person would have discovered the fact of the divorce, the petitioner has not voluntarily cohabited with the other party.
(b) A suit may not be brought under this section after the first anniversary of the date of the marriage.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
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.6.htm
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