JURISDICTION PENDING TRANSFER
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case In Re Kramer (1999)
Most recently applied in In the Interest of C.G. (February 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) During the transfer of a suit from a court with continuing, exclusive jurisdiction, the transferring court retains jurisdiction to render temporary orders.
(b) The jurisdiction of the transferring court terminates on the docketing of the case in the transferee court.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.