Texas Family Code

§ 104.004 — REMOTE TELEVISED BROADCAST OF TESTIMONY OF CHILD

FA § 104.004Title 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP · Part A. GENERAL PROVISIONS · Ch. 104. EVIDENCE

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(a)If in a suit a child 12 years of age or younger is alleged to have been abused, the court may, on the motion of a party to the proceeding, order that the testimony of the child be taken in a room other than the courtroom and be televised by closed-circuit equipment in the courtroom to be viewed by the court and the parties.

(b)The procedures that apply to prerecorded videotaped testimony of a child apply to the remote broadcast of testimony of a child.

Legislative history

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995.