Tex. Fam. Code § 9.106 · Subchapter B. POST-DECREE QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER
ATTORNEY'S FEES, COURT COSTS, AND EXPENSES.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In a proceeding under this subchapter, the court may award reasonable and necessary attorney's fees, court costs, and expenses incurred by a party to a divorce or annulment against the other party to the divorce or annulment. The court may order the attorney's fees, court costs, and expenses to be paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name by any means available for the enforcement of a judgment for debt.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 768 (S.B. 866), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2009.
Amended by:
Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 593 (H.B. 2524), Sec. 11, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.9.htm
- Text hash
- sha256 b0f9d2e435b37255cb5c108fdb7ad3b5e992d444518450b16ed681e469d03ef9
- 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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