Tex. Fam. Code § 61.057 · Subchapter B. ENFORCEMENT OF ORDER AGAINST PARENT OR OTHER ELIGIBLE PERSON
PUNISHMENT FOR CONTEMPT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) On a finding of contempt, the juvenile court may commit the person to the county jail for a term not to exceed six months or may impose a fine in an amount not to exceed $500, or both.
(b) The court may impose only a single jail sentence not to exceed six months or a single fine not to exceed $500, or both, during an enforcement proceeding, without regard to whether the court has entered multiple findings of contempt.
(c) On a finding of contempt in an enforcement proceeding, the juvenile court may, instead of issuing a commitment to jail, enter an order requiring the person's future conduct to comply with the court's previous orders.
(d) Violation of an order entered under Subsection (c) may be the basis of a new enforcement proceeding.
(e) The juvenile court may assign a juvenile probation officer to assist a person in complying with a court order issued under Subsection (c).
(f) A juvenile court may reduce a term of incarceration or reduce payment of all or part of a fine at any time before the sentence is fully served or the fine fully paid.
(g) A juvenile court may reduce the burden of complying with a court order issued under Subsection (c) at any time before the order is fully satisfied, but may not increase the burden except following a new finding of contempt in a new enforcement proceeding.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 283, Sec. 28, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.61.htm
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