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Texas Family Code Section 2.103
COURT ORDER FOR UNDERAGE APPLICANT.
(a) A minor may petition the court in the minor's own name for an order granting permission to marry. In a suit under this section, the trial judge may advance the suit if the best interest of the applicant would be served by an early hearing.
(b) The petition must be filed in the county where a paren tresides if a managing conservator or a guardian of the person hasnot been appointed. If a managing conservator or a guardian of theperson has been appointed, the petition must be filed in the countywhere the managing conservator or the guardian of the personresides. If no person authorized to consent to marriage for theminor resides in this state, the petition must be filed in thecounty where the minor lives.
(c) The petition must include: (1) a statement of the reasons the minor desires to marry; (2) a statement of whether each parent is living or isdead;(3) the name and residence address of each livingparent; and (4) a statement of whether a managing conservator or aguardian of the person has been appointed for the minor.(d) Process shall be served as in other civil cases on eachliving parent of the minor or, if a managing conservator or aguardian of the person has been appointed, on the managingconservator or guardian of the person. Citation may be given bypublication as in other civil cases, except that notice shall bepublished one time only.(e) The court shall appoint a guardian ad litem to representthe minor in the proceeding and to speak for or against the petitionin the manner the guardian ad litem believes to be in the bestinterest of the minor. The court shall specify a fee to be paid bythe minor for the services of the guardian ad litem. The fee shall be collected in the same manner as other costs of the proceeding.
(f) If after a hearing the court, sitting without a jury,believes marriage to be in the best interest of the minor, thecourt, by order, shall grant the minor permission to marry.Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 7, § 1, eff. April 17, 1997.
