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Texas Civil Courts Guide

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FAMILY

Divorce

1. Divorce In Texas WITH Children.

2. Divorce In Texas WITHOUT children

3. Special Instructions for Filing in Travis County, Texas.
Information on where to file, required standing order for Travis County, the court docket, and Reference Attorney Program.

Protective Order

1. Protective Order Kit
You can get a protective order if: Someone has hurt you, or threatened to hurt you, and You have a close relationship with that person (you were or are married, dating or living together, have a child together or are close relatives), and You are afraid that person may hurt you again.

Annulment

1. Annulment
Texas law on annulment and forms.

Name Change

1. Name Change Adult
For people age 18 and older.

2. Name Change Child
Both parents agree about the name change of their child.

Children

1. SAPCR (Suits Affecting the Parent - Child Relationship) Kit
How to ask the court for custody, visitation, child support, and medical support orders, when you're not getting divorced and paternity of the children has been established. Under special conditions, a SAPCR can be used by a non-parent to ask the court for custody of a child.

2. Modification Kit
How to change a court order for custody, visitation, child support or medical support.

3. Paternity
How to establish paternity of a child.

4. Mistaken Paternity
How to take back or challenge an Acknowledgment of Paternity or Denial of Paternity. How to terminate the parent-child relationship between you and a child based on genetic testing that proves you’re not the father.

5. Termination of Withholding for Child Support Kit
How to stop child support from being withheld from your paycheck because child support is no longer required in your case.

6. Visitation Enforcement Kit
If you have a Texas court order that allows you to spend time with your children, but the other parent won't follow the order, this kit can help you enforce that order.

COURT PROCEDURE

Giving Notice

1. Legal Notice
How to give the other party legal notice that you filed a case in court (also called Service of Citation or Service of Process).

2. Substitute Service

How to ask the court to allow alternate methods of service when attempts to serve the respondent have failed.

3. Service by Posting
How to serve your spouse with legal notice of divorce when you cannot find your spouse and there are no children.

4. Service by Publication
How to serve the other parent with legal notice of a case involving children, including a divorce with children, when you cannot find the other parent.

5. Serving the Document and the Certificate of Service
How to give copies of documents filed in your case to the other party as required by the rules of civil procedure.

Responses

6. Original Answer
How to file an Answer when the respondent does not want to waive his/her rights in the case.

7. DWOP
How to reinstate your case if it is "Dismissed for Want of Prosecution" (DWOP). Use these forms to ask the Court to retain or reinstate your case on the docket.

Judgments

8. Default Judgment Kit
How to finish your case when the Respondent was served with legal notice but did not file a response or appear in court.

9. Nunc Pro Tunc
How to correct a clerical mistake in a judgment.

Other Forms

1. Occupational Driver's License
How to request a court-ordered, restricted driving license, when your license has been suspended.

2. Expunction of Arrest Record
How and when you can clear your arrest record.
(revised 9/1/2011)

Affidavits

1. Affidavit of Inability to Pay

2. General Affidavit
A sworn written statement, signed in front of a notary public.

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