Legal Question in Criminal Law in Texas

Contributing to minors

Tx laws allow parents to supply their minor children alcohol if they are in plain sight. If my wife is a minor and me as well, is it ok for my mother-in-law to give both of us alcohol in her presence if we are in plain sight?


Asked on 1/10/09, 2:40 pm

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TC Langford Langford Law Office

Re: Contributing to minors

You can read the specific provisions in Chapter 106 of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code. Briefly, if the adult parent is visibly supervising, then the adult parent can provide alcohol to their minor child. Not to their child-in-law.

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Answered on 1/12/09, 11:36 am


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