APPLICATION FOR COURT ORDER
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Madeksho v. Abraham, Watkins, Nichols & Friend (2003)
Most recently applied in Christopher Moser v. Leslie Schachar (September 2015)
Acts 1983, 68th Leg., p. 3529, ch. 576, 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) The person who has been discharged from his debts, that person's receiver or trustee, or any other interested person may apply, on proof of the discharge, to the court in which the judgment was rendered for an order discharging and canceling the judgment and judgment lien.
(b) A person may not apply for the order before a year has elapsed since the bankruptcy discharge.
Official source: Texas Constitution and Statutes. Reproduced from public-domain Texas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.