Tex. Family Code § 104.004
This is the official text of Tex. Family Code § 104.004, part of Texas’s Family Code — governs marriage, divorce, child custody and support, and adoption.
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§ 104.004. REMOTE TELEVISED BROADCAST OF TESTIMONY OF CHILD.
Official statutory text
(a) If in a suit a child 12 years of age or younger is alleged to have been abused, the court may, on the motion of a party to the proceeding, order that the testimony of the child be taken in a room other than the courtroom and be televised by closed-circuit equipment in the courtroom to be viewed by the court and the parties.
(b) The procedures that apply to prerecorded videotaped testimony of a child apply to the remote broadcast of testimony of a child.
(b) The procedures that apply to prerecorded videotaped testimony of a child apply to the remote broadcast of testimony of a child.
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