Tex. Fam. Code § 6.304 · Subchapter D. JURISDICTION, VENUE, AND RESIDENCE QUALIFICATIONS
ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL NOT PREVIOUSLY RESIDENTS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
A person not previously a resident of this state who is serving in the armed forces of the United States and has been stationed at one or more military installations in this state for at least the last six months and at a military installation in a county of this state for at least the last 90 days, or who is accompanying the person's spouse during the spouse's military service in those locations and for those periods, is considered to be a Texas domiciliary and a resident of that county for those periods for the purpose of filing suit for dissolution of a marriage.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
Amended by:
Acts 2011, 82nd Leg., R.S., Ch. 436 (S.B. 1159), Sec. 1, eff. June 17, 2011.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.6.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 a51a3ccad6927073921e3f79b0a632b03ed20e3b0f9eff280c38f4efd198f5bd
- 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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