CHILD OR MINOR; ADULT
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case In the Interest of U.P., a Child (2003)
Most recently applied in Budhathoki v. Department of Homeland Security (October 2016)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, 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) "Child" or "minor" means a person under 18 years of age who is not and has not been married or who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for general purposes.
(b) In the context of child support, "child" includes a person over 18 years of age for whom a person may be obligated to pay child support.
(c) "Adult" means a person who is not a child.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.