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4 Document(s) [ Subject: Divorce ]

Committee: Joint Family Code, Interim
Title: Interim Report
Library Catalog Title: A comprehensive review of the Texas Family Code.
Subjects: At-risk youth | Boot camps | Child crimes | Child custody | Child support | Divorce | Families | Gender discrimination | Juvenile justice system | Juvenile Probation Commission, Texas | Marriage | Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Texas Department of | Statutory revision | Youth Commission, Texas |
Library Call Number: L1836.73 f21
Session: 73rd R.S. (1993)
Online version: View report [241 pages  File size: 10,502 kb]
Charges: This report should address the charges below.
1. Study and make recommendations regarding the clarity and consistency of terminology used throughout the Family Code.
2. Study the usefulness and necessity of all major provisions of the Family Code, and, if any are obsolete or in need of amendment, recommend deletions or appropriate amendments.
3. Study and make recommendations regarding property division from divorce, as well as child support guidelines in Title 2
4. Study and make recommendations regarding juvenile justice provisions contained in Title 3.
5. Maker recommendations regarding recodification of the Code, if needed.
6. Make recommendations regarding any additions or other changes that the Committee determined should be made to the Texas Family Code.
Committee: House Judiciary
Title: Interim Report
Library Catalog Title: Report of the Committee on Judiciary, House of Representatives, State of Texas, 69th Legislature.
Subjects: Administrative Hearings, State Office of | Alternative dispute resolution | Court congestion | Court Reporters Certification Board, Texas | Divorce |
Library Call Number: L1836.69 j898
Session: 69th R.S. (1985)
Online version: View report [101 pages  File size: 3,277 kb]
Charges: This report should address the charges below.
1. To study the funding procedures and processes of the Court Reporters Certification Board, and review the qualifications necessary for certification.
2. To study the necessity and desirability of establishing or expanding a system of arbitration or mediation for certain civil cases.
3. To study the necessity and desirability of allowing court ordered alimony in Texas, and the determination of those parameters of circumstances which would indicate a need for spousal maintenance.
4. To study the advantages and disadvantages to the state of creating a central panel of administrative law judges.
Committee: House Judiciary
Title: Interim report
Library Catalog Title: To the speaker and members of the Texas House of Representatives, 69th Legislature : report of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, state of Texas, 68th Legislature.
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution | Attorney General of Texas | Damage awards | Divorce | Interest rates | Juvenile justice system | Law Examiners, Texas Board of | State Bar of Texas | Statutory revision |
Library Call Number: L1836.68 j898
Session: 68th R.S. (1983)
Online version: View report [115 pages  File size: 3,481 kb]
Charges: This report should address the charges below.
1. To monitor all activities and have budget oversight responsibilities for those agencies, boards and commissions as listed in Rule 3, Section 18.
2. To study the necessity and desirability of revising Title 3 of the Family Code to conform with the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.
3. To study the adversarial system of adjudicating divorce and related issues, and possible available alternatives to that system.
4. To study the organization, administration, and procedures of the Office of the Attorney General.
5. To study the funding, procedures, and processes of the Board of Law Examiners, and a review of the qualifications necessary for admittance to the State Bar.
6. To study the necessity and desirability of allowing prejudgment interest in civil suits.
Committee: House Divorce Laws
Title: Report
Library Catalog Title: Report of the Interim Study Committee on Divorce, created by H.S.R. 204, the Legislature of Texas, third called session, 1962, to the 58th Legislature of Texas.
Subjects: Child custody | Child support | Child welfare | Common law marriages | Divorce | Families | Marriage |
Library Call Number: L1836.57 D642
Session: 57th R.S. (1961)
Online version: View report [83 pages  File size: 8,390 kb]
Charge: This report should address the charge below.
1. Make a comprehensive study of divorce and the laws relating thereto, giving special attention to the rights children, methods for promoting the public welfare by preserving, promoting and protecting family life and the institution of matrimony, and to the possible methods which might encourage the reconciliation of spouses and the amicable settlement of domestic and family controversies.

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