Texas Family Code 61.002 – Applicability
Terms Used In Texas Family Code 61.002
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Person: includes corporation, organization, government or governmental subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, association, and any other legal entity. See Texas Government Code 311.005
- Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
This chapter applies to a proceeding to enter a juvenile court order:
(1) for restitution under Sections 54.041(b) and 54.048;
(2) for community service under § 54.044(b);
(3) requiring the person to refrain from doing any act injurious to the welfare of the child under § 54.041(a)(1);
(4) enjoining contact between the person and the child who is the subject of a proceeding under § 54.041(a)(2);
(5) ordering a person living in the same household with the child to participate in counseling under § 54.041(a)(3);
(6) requiring a parent or other eligible person to attend a court hearing under § 51.115;
(7) requiring a parent or other eligible person to act or refrain from acting to aid the child in complying with conditions of release from detention under § 54.01(r); or
(8) requiring a parent or other eligible person to act or refrain from acting under any law imposing an obligation of action or omission on a parent or other eligible person because of the parent’s or person’s relation to the child who is the subject of a proceeding under this title.