Legal Question in Family Law in Texas

Hypothetically, as I have only the information you provided, if you leave the state where you now live, without an order from the court allowing you to do so and leave, your husband will have up to 6 months to file an action against you in the state where you now live (or where he lives if you leave the state)...

and, if he does this, he will be able to get a Writ issued against you and get a Sheriff to bring you AND the child back to the state where you now live, and the Writ will give him custody.

If this happens, you could permanently loose joint custody of your child, and your husband could get sole decision making rights to your child, which is not in your or your child's best interest.

Based on what you provided, I would not leave the state where you live without an order from the court allowing you to do so.

What that means is that you will need to hire a very good lawyer who can file a divorce with child custody action in the court, get him served, and fight for you to get sole decision making rights to your child, if you can, and possibly, the right to leave the state with the child.

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