Title FA, Family Code

Sec. 301.053. RESPONSE. The responding party must serve a written response on the requesting party not later than the 30th day after the date the requesting party serves a request under Section 301.051, except that: (1) a defendant served with a request before the defendant's ans…

Sec. 301.054. PRODUCTION OF DOCUMENTS AND TANGIBLE ITEMS. The responding party shall provide copies of documents and other tangible items with the response to a request served under Section 301.051 unless: (1) the responsive documents are voluminous; (2) the responding party stat…

Sec. 301.055. WORK PRODUCT OBJECTION PROHIBITED. A party may not assert a work product privilege for or object on the basis of a work product privilege to a request served under Section 301.051. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 844 (H.B. 2850), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2…

Sec. 301.056. CERTAIN RESPONSES NOT ADMISSIBLE. A response to a request under Section 301.052(a)(3) or (4) that has been changed by an amended or supplemental response is not admissible and may not be used for impeachment. Added by Acts 2023, 88th Leg., R.S., Ch. 844 (H.B. 2850),…

Sec. 301.101. PERMISSIBLE DISCOVERY METHODS. A party may request another party to designate and disclose information concerning testifying expert witnesses only through: (1) a disclosure request served under Section 301.051; or (2) a deposition or report permitted by this subchap…

Sec. 301.102. DEADLINE FOR RESPONSE. Unless otherwise ordered by the court, a responding party shall provide the information requested under Section 301.052(a)(6) not later than the later of: (1) the 30th day after the date the request is served; or (2) either, as applicable: (A)…

Sec. 301.103. DEPOSITION AVAILABILITY. (a) A party seeking affirmative relief shall make an expert retained by, employed by, or otherwise under the control of the party available for a deposition in accordance with this section. (b) If a party seeking affirmative relief does not …

Sec. 301.104. CONTENT OF ORAL DEPOSITIONS AND COURT-ORDERED REPORTS. In addition to a disclosure request served under Section 301.051, a party may obtain discovery by oral deposition and a report prepared in accordance with Section 301.105 of: (1) the subject matter on which a te…

Sec. 301.105. COURT-ORDERED REPORTS. If the discoverable factual observations, tests, supporting data, calculations, photographs, or opinions of an expert are not recorded and reduced to tangible form, the court may order that information be reduced to tangible form and produced …

Sec. 301.106. AMENDMENT AND SUPPLEMENTATION OF DISCOVERY. A party's duty to amend and supplement written discovery regarding a testifying expert is governed by Rule 193.5, Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. If a party retains, employs, or otherwise controls an expert witness, the pa…

Sec. 301.107. COST OF EXPERT WITNESSES. When a party takes the oral deposition of an expert witness retained by an opposing party, the party retaining the expert shall pay all reasonable fees charged by the expert for time spent in preparing for, giving, reviewing, and correcting…

Sec. 301.108. EXPERT COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTED. Communications between a party's attorney and a testifying expert witness in an action subject to this chapter are protected from discovery regardless of the form of the communications, except to the extent that the communications: (…