REPRESENTATION BY ATTORNEY; FEES
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Pheng Investments, Inc. v. Rodriquez (2006)
Most recently applied in D.R. Horton - Texas, Ltd. v. William Bernhard and Nadia Bernhard (February 2014)
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 165, Sec. 5.01, eff
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(a) A party is entitled to representation by an attorney at a proceeding under this chapter.
(b) A waiver of the right described by Subsection (a) before the proceeding is ineffective.
(c) The arbitrators shall award attorney's fees as additional sums required to be paid under the award only if the fees are provided for:
(1) in the agreement to arbitrate; or
(2) by law for a recovery in a civil action in the district court on a cause of action on which any part of the award is based.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.