Bill Text: TX HB730 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Comm Sub

Texas House Bill 730 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relating to a disclosure by an attorney before accepting representation of a client in a suit for the dissolution of marriage.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-04-26 - Committee report sent to Calendars [HB730 Detail]

Download: Texas-2017-HB730-Comm_Sub.html

	85R20277 JSC-D

	By: Bohac	H.B. No. 730

	Substitute the following for H.B. No. 730:

	By: Dutton	C.S.H.B. No. 730



	A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
	AN ACT
	relating to a disclosure by an attorney before accepting
	representation of a client in a suit for the dissolution of
	marriage.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
	SECTION 1. Subchapter E, Chapter 6, Family Code, is amended
	by adding Section 6.412 to read as follows:
	Sec. 6.412. DISCLOSURE REQUIRED. (a) An attorney may not
	agree to represent a client in a suit for dissolution of a marriage
	unless the attorney provides the disclosure described by Subsection
	(b) to the client.
	(b) The State Bar of Texas shall adopt the disclosure form
	required under this section. The disclosure must include:
	(1) information about arbitration, mediation,
	collaborative law, and alternatives to retaining an attorney for
	the dissolution of a marriage; and
	(2) any other information the state bar requires.
	SECTION 2. (a) The State Bar of Texas shall adopt the
	disclosure form required by Section 6.412, Family Code, as added by
	this Act, not later than January 1, 2018.
	(b) Section 6.412, Family Code, as added by this Act,
	applies to the representation of a client that begins on or after
	March 1, 2018.
	SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.