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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Family Code § 159.203: INITIATING AND RESPONDING TRIBUNAL OF STATE.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. FAMILY CODE
  2. TITLE 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
  3. SUBTITLE B. SUITS AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
  4. CHAPTER 159. UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
  5. SUBCHAPTER C. JURISDICTION

Under this chapter, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 607, Sec. 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Amended by:

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 368 (H.B. 3538), Sec. 7, eff. July 1, 2015.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:10Z. Source file · JSON

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