Sec. 61.055. CONDUCT OF ENFORCEMENT HEARING. (a) The juvenile court shall require that the enforcement hearing be recorded as provided by Section 54.09.
(b) The movant must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person against whom enforcement is sought engaged in conduct constituting contempt of a reasonable and lawful court order as alleged in the motion for enforcement.
(c) The person against whom enforcement is sought has a privilege not to be called as a witness or otherwise to incriminate himself or herself.
(d) The juvenile court shall conduct the enforcement hearing without a jury.
(e) The juvenile court shall include in its judgment findings as to each violation alleged in the motion for enforcement and the punishment, if any, to be imposed.
(f) If the person against whom enforcement is sought was not represented by counsel during any previous court proceeding involving a motion for enforcement, the person may through counsel raise any defense or affirmative defense to the proceeding that could have been lodged in the previous court proceeding but was not because the person was not represented by counsel.
(g) It is an affirmative defense to enforcement of a juvenile court order that the juvenile court did not provide the parent or other eligible person with due process of law in the proceeding in which the court entered the order.
Added by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 283, Sec. 28, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.
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