Sec. 194.002. REPORT OF DIVORCE OR ANNULMENT. (a) The department shall prescribe a form for reporting divorces and annulments of marriage. The form must require the following information:

(1) each party's:

(A) full name;

(B) usual residence;

(C) age;

(D) place of birth;

(E) color or race; and

(F) number of children;

(2) the date and place of the parties' marriage;

(3) the date the divorce or annulment of marriage was granted; and

(4) the court and the style and docket number of the case in which the divorce or annulment of marriage was granted.

(b) The vital statistics unit shall furnish sufficient copies of the form to each district clerk.

(c) When an attorney presents a final judgment for a divorce or annulment of marriage to a court for a final decree, the attorney shall:

(1) enter on the form the information required under Subsection (a); and

(2) submit the report to the district clerk with the final judgment.

(d) Not later than the ninth day of each month, each district clerk shall file with the vital statistics unit a completed report for each divorce or annulment of marriage granted in the district court during the preceding calendar month. If a report does not include the information required by Subsection (a)(3) or (4), the clerk must complete that information on the report before the clerk files the report with the unit.

(e) For each report that a district clerk files with the vital statistics unit under this section, the clerk may collect a $1 fee as costs in the case in which the divorce or annulment of marriage is granted.

(f) If the department determines that a report filed with the department under this section requires correction, the department shall mail the report form directly to an attorney of record with respect to the divorce or annulment of marriage. The attorney shall return the corrected report form to the department. If there is no attorney of record, the department shall mail the report form to the district clerk for correction.

Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989. Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1128, Sec. 2, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Amended by:

Acts 2005, 79th Leg., Ch. 186 (H.B. 723), Sec. 1, eff. May 27, 2005.

Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1 (S.B. 219), Sec. 3.0562, eff. April 2, 2015.