Robb v. Robb

OPINION

STEPHEN F. PRESLAR, Chief Justice.

This appeal, from the the trial Court’s division of the estate of the parties and the award of child support incident to a suit for divorce, involves the question of whether, under the terms of Article 200a, sec. 6, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. (Supp.1980), the trial judge had the mandatory duty to request a presiding judge to assign another district judge to hear Appellant’s motion to recuse. Article 200a, sec. 6, is held to be mandatory, and we reverse the judgment of the trial Court for failure to comply with it.

Section 6 of Article 200a was amended by the…