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Tex. Fam. Code § 42.001

DEFINITIONS

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Bos v. Smith (2018)

Most recently applied in Bos v. Smith (June 2018)

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

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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.

In this chapter:

(1) "Order" means a temporary or final order of a court of this state or another state or nation.

(2) "Possessory right" means a court-ordered right of possession of or access to a child, including conservatorship, custody, and visitation.

Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.