CLARIFYING NONSPECIFIC ORDER
Applied in 16 court decisions — leading case Dickens v. Willis (1997)
Most recently applied in Alan Leslie Williams v. Jo-Ann Williams (November 2012)
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) A court may clarify an order rendered by the court in a proceeding under this title if the court finds, on the motion of a party or on the court's own motion, that the order is not specific enough to be enforced by contempt.
(b) The court shall clarify the order by rendering an order that is specific enough to be enforced by contempt.
(c) A clarified order does not affect the finality of the order that it clarifies.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.