Texas Family Code § 2.501

Duty to Support

The Marriage Relationship · Rights and Duties of Spouses

(a) Each spouse has the duty to support the other spouse.

(b) A spouse who fails to discharge the duty of support is liable to any person who provides necessaries to the spouse to whom support is owed.

Official text of the Texas Family Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

Legislative history

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

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