Tex. Gov't Code § 24.022 · Subchapter A. GENERAL PROVISIONS
EFFECT OF TRANSFER OF CERTAIN CASES FOLLOWING CREATION OF ADDITIONAL COURT.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(a) On the creation of an additional district court in a county, an existing district court in the county may transfer to the new court a case regarding a child who is subject to the continuing exclusive jurisdiction of the existing court under Title 5, Family Code, regardless of whether the case is pending in the existing court or the existing court rendered a final order in the case.
(b) The district court to which the case is transferred under this section acquires continuing exclusive jurisdiction under Title 5, Family Code, over the child.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1148, Sec. 1, eff. June 15, 2001.
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- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/GV/htm/GV.24.htm
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