Section 6.008 – Defenses

May 14, 2021 | Family Law, Texas

(a) The defenses to a suit for divorce of recrimination and adultery are abolished.
(b) Condonation is a defense to a suit for divorce only if the court finds that there is a reasonable expectation of reconciliation.

Tex. Fam. Code ยง 6.008

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