GENERAL RESIDENCY RULE FOR DIVORCE SUIT
Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Dawson-Austin v. Austin (1998)
Most recently applied in In re Milton (December 2013)
Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, 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 suit for divorce may not be maintained in this state unless at the time the suit is filed either the petitioner or the respondent has been:
(1) a domiciliary of this state for the preceding six-month period; and
(2) a resident of the county in which the suit is filed for the preceding 90-day period.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.