{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-family-code-201.1041","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Family Code § 201.1041","heading":"JUDICIAL ACTION ON ASSOCIATE JUDGE'S PROPOSED ORDER OR JUDGMENT.","body":"(a) If a request for a de novo hearing before the referring court is not timely filed or the right to a de novo hearing before the referring court is waived, the proposed order or judgment of the associate judge, other than a proposed order or judgment providing for enforcement by contempt or the immediate incarceration of a party, shall become the order or judgment of the referring court by operation of law without ratification by the referring court.\n(b) An associate judge's proposed order or judgment providing for enforcement by contempt or the immediate incarceration of a party becomes an order of the referring court only if:\n(1) the referring court signs an order adopting the associate judge's proposed order or judgment; and\n(2) the order or judgment meets the requirements of Section 157.166.\n(c) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a proposed order or judgment of the associate judge is in full force and effect and is enforceable as an order or judgment of the referring court pending a de novo hearing before the referring court.\nAdded by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 556, Sec. 43, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1023, Sec. 47, eff. Sept. 1, 2001; Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1258, Sec. 8, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.\nAmended by:\nActs 2007, 80th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1235 (H.B. 2501), Sec. 9, eff. September 1, 2007.","path":["FAMILY CODE","TITLE 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP","SUBTITLE C. JUDICIAL RESOURCES AND SERVICES","CHAPTER 201. ASSOCIATE JUDGE","SUBCHAPTER B. ASSOCIATE JUDGE FOR TITLE IV-D CASES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FA/htm/FA.201.htm#201.1041","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:10Z","sha256":"6a6283f6eb3f168039eb8ae25559b8926cb3bfebeab7d6bb62f3edd652191e7a","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-family-code-201.104","next":"us-tx/tex.-family-code-201.1042"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}