TX HB2524

Standardizes language across Texas Family Code to allow courts to award "reasonable and necessary" attorney's fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings, including divorce, child custody, child support enforcement, and protective order cases

Authorizes courts to order fees, costs, expenses, and postjudgment interest to be paid directly to the attorney, who may then enforce the order in their own name as a judgment for debt

Applies to multiple family law contexts including dissolution of marriage, spousal maintenance, property division, child support modifications and enforcement, income withholding orders, and child support liens

Creates new Section 8.063 specifically authorizing attorney's fees, court costs, and expenses in spousal maintenance modification, termination, and enforcement proceedings

Takes effect September 1, 2025, and applies only to suits filed on or after that date; passed House 146-0 on May 8, 2025, and Senate 31-0 on May 25, 2025