Texas Family Code

§ 9.012 — CONTEMPT

FA § 9.012Title 1. THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP · Part C. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE · Ch. 9. POST-DECREE PROCEEDINGS · Art. A. SUIT TO ENFORCE DECREE

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(a)The court may enforce by contempt an order requiring delivery of specific property or an award of a right to future property.

(b)The court may not enforce by contempt an award in a decree of divorce or annulment of a sum of money payable in a lump sum or in future installment payments in the nature of debt, except for:

(1)a sum of money in existence at the time the decree was rendered; or

(2)a matured right to future payments as provided by Section 9.011.

(c)This subchapter does not detract from or limit the general power of a court to enforce an order of the court by appropriate means.

Legislative history

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