Sections
7 entriesSection 583.110Defines action, unless the provision or context requires otherwise, to include claims commenced by cross-complaint or other pleading, complaint to include a…Section 583.120Establishes that the chapter applies to civil actions and ordinarily not to special proceedings except when incorporated by reference. A court may…Section 583.130Establishes state policy requiring plaintiffs to prosecute actions with reasonable diligence and all parties to cooperate in bringing cases to trial or…Section 583.140Limits the chapter's effect by preserving the principles of waiver and estoppel. Nothing in the chapter abolishes, overrides, or otherwise changes those…Section 583.150Limits the chapter's effect by preserving a court's authority to dismiss an action or impose other sanctions under rules adopted by the…Section 583.160Extends the chapter to dismissal motions in actions begun before, on, or after its effective date, but preserves prior law for a…Section 583.161Bars dismissal under the chapter of specified Family Code petitions while an associated child-support, child-custody, visitation, spousal-support, or qualifying domestic-violence restraining order…