Source: https://www.womenslaw.org/laws/tx/divorce
Timestamp: 2019-06-18 17:38:09
Document Index: 793913429

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 6', '§ 8', '§ 154', '§ 154']

Below is basic information about divorce in Texas. You will find more information about divorce, including the risks of taking your children out of state while a divorce is pending, on our general Divorce page. To watch brief videos about divorce in Spanish with English sub-titles, go to our Videos page. Lastly, learn more about the court process on our Preparing for Court – By Yourself page.
To file for a divorce in Texas, at the time the divorce is filed, either spouse must have been living in Texas for the preceding six-month period and a resident of the county in which the suit is filed for the preceding 90-day period.1 If you are participating in the TX Attorney General’s Address Confidentiality Program, the government will verify that you have met this requirement, without disclosing your address. Any time spent outside of Texas while serving in the U.S. armed forces (or as an accompanying spouse of someone serving) is still counted as residency in Texas for the purpose of calculating the six-month and 90-day time periods.2
If you do not live in Texas but your spouse does (and s/he has been living in Texas for at least the past six months), you can file a suit for divorce in the county in which s/he lives.3
1 Tex. Fam. Code § 6.301
2 Tex. Fam. Code § 6.303
3 Tex. Fam. Code § 6.302
s/he has custody of a child of the marriage of any age who requires substantial care and personal supervision because of a physical or mental disability that does not allow the spouse to earn enough money to take care of his/her minimum needs.1
If the child is disabled, child support payments could last for an indefinite period of time.2
Parents will also be required to pay medical support for their children.3
1 Tex. Fam. Code § 8.051
2 Tex. Fam. Code § 154.001
3 Tex. Fam. Code § 154.008