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Tex. Fam. Code § 104.004

REMOTE TELEVISED BROADCAST OF TESTIMONY OF CHILD

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case In the Interest of S.P. (2005)

Most recently applied in In the Interest of S.P. (May 2005)

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff

(a) If in a suit a child 12 years of age or younger is alleged to have been abused, the court may, on the motion of a party to the proceeding, order that the testimony of the child be taken in a room other than the courtroom and be televised by closed-circuit equipment in the courtroom to be viewed by the court and the parties.

(b) The procedures that apply to prerecorded videotaped testimony of a child apply to the remote broadcast of testimony of 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.