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

Tex. Family Code § 9.401: LACK OF JURISDICTION.

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Where this section sits in the code
  1. FAMILY CODE
  2. TITLE 1. THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP
  3. SUBTITLE C. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
  4. CHAPTER 9. POST-DECREE PROCEEDINGS
  5. SUBCHAPTER E. DECLARING A DECREE VOID

(a) A decree of divorce or annulment is void if the court rendering the decree lacked jurisdiction at the time the decree was rendered.

(b) A putative spouse may file a suit to declare a decree of divorce or annulment void under Subsection (a).

Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 735 (H.B. 2240), Sec. 2, eff. June 20, 2025.

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