Bill Text: TX HB868 | 2021-2022 | 87th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relating to the jury charge and jury findings in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB868 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB868-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relating to the jury charge and jury findings in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: (Passed) 2021-06-04 - Effective on 9/1/21 [HB868 Detail]
Download: Texas-2021-HB868-Introduced.html
87R812 MM-F | ||
By: Thompson of Harris | H.B. No. 868 |
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relating to the jury charge and jury findings in a suit affecting | ||
the parent-child relationship. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Section 105.002(c), Family Code, is amended to | ||
read as follows: | ||
(c) In a jury trial: | ||
(1) a party is entitled to a verdict by the jury and | ||
the court may not contravene a jury verdict on the issues of: | ||
(A) the appointment of a sole managing | ||
conservator; | ||
(B) the appointment of joint managing | ||
conservators; | ||
(C) the appointment of a possessory conservator; | ||
(D) the determination of which joint managing | ||
conservator has the exclusive right to designate the primary | ||
residence of the child; | ||
(E) the determination of whether to impose a | ||
restriction on the geographic area in which a sole managing | ||
conservator or joint managing conservator may designate the child's | ||
primary residence; and | ||
(F) if a restriction described by Paragraph (E) | ||
is imposed, the determination of the geographic area within which | ||
the sole managing conservator or joint managing conservator must | ||
designate the child's primary residence; and | ||
(2) the court may not submit to the jury questions on | ||
the issues of: | ||
(A) support under Chapter 154 or Chapter 159; | ||
(B) a specific term or condition of possession of | ||
or access to the child; or | ||
(C) any right or duty of a conservator, other | ||
than a [ |
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SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship filed on or after | ||
the effective date of this Act. A suit affecting the parent-child | ||
relationship filed before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law in effect on the date the suit was filed, and the | ||
former law is continued in effect for that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021. |