OBJECTION TO JURISDICTION BECAUSE OF AGE OF THE CHILD
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case In the Matter of E.D.C., a Juvenile (2002)
Most recently applied in Morrison v. State (November 2016)
Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 262, Sec. 6, 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 child who objects to the jurisdiction of the court over the child because of the age of the child must raise the objection at the adjudication hearing or discretionary transfer hearing, if any.
(b) A child who does not object as provided by Subsection (a) waives any right to object to the jurisdiction of the court because of the age of the child at a later hearing or on appeal.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.