§Texas Family CodeOfficial text, fully linked

§ 6.701 Failure to Answer

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In a suit for divorce, the petition may not be taken as confessed if the respondent does not file an answer.
Legislative history

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, Sec. 1, eff. April 17, 1997.

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