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Terms Used In Texas Human Resources Code 152.0051

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

The juvenile board of a county that has a family district court is composed of:
(1) the county judge;
(2) the judge of each family district court;
(3) the judge of each other district court in the county; and
(4) the judge of each other court in the county that has jurisdiction over juvenile matters.