Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.
Section 157.007 - Affirmative Defense to Motion for Enforcement of Possession or Access(a) The respondent may plead as an affirmative defense to contempt for failure to comply with an order for possession or access to a child that the movant voluntarily relinquished actual possession and control of the child.(b) The voluntary relinquishment must have been for the time encompassed by the court-ordered periods during which the respondent is alleged to have interfered.Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. 4/20/1995.