Tex. Fam. Code § 6.402 · Subchapter E. FILING SUIT
PLEADINGS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) A petition in a suit for dissolution of a marriage is sufficient without the necessity of specifying the underlying evidentiary facts if the petition alleges the grounds relied on substantially in the language of the statute.
(b) Allegations of grounds for relief, matters of defense, or facts relied on for a temporary order that are stated in short and plain terms are not subject to special exceptions because of form or sufficiency.
(c) The court shall strike an allegation of evidentiary fact from the pleadings on the motion of a party or on the court's own motion.
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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