DIRECT OR COLLATERAL ATTACK
Applied in 8 court decisions — leading case In Re Smith (2008)
Most recently applied in Kemp & Associates, Inc. v. Chisholm (February 2015)
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) Notwithstanding Rule 329, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure, the validity of an adoption order is not subject to attack after six months after the date the order was signed.
(b) The validity of a final adoption order is not subject to attack because a health, social, educational, and genetic history was not filed.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.