Texas
Texas: statutes read at the official source for people acting for themselves, each with its citation and the date it was read.
Acting for yourself
Read at the official source. The provision is cited below; its wording is not reproduced here because the reading recorded the section rather than its text.
Tex. Gov't Code §§ 81.101, 83.001 · statutes.capitol.texas.gov · read 2026-08-19 · official source
Renting and landlord-tenant
No landlord-tenant provision has been read at Texas’s own code yet, so none is shown. An empty section here means nobody checked, never no law exists.
Small claims
The court that hears these in Texas is the Justice court (justice of the peace court).
$20,000
Applies to civil matters in which exclusive jurisdiction is not in the district or county court. Amount is exclusive of interest.
civil matters in which exclusive jurisdiction is not in the district or county court and in which the amount in controversy is not more than $20,000, exclusive of interest;
Tex. Gov't Code § 27.031(a)(1) · read 2026-08-21 · official source
Lawyers in small claims
A corporation need not be represented by an attorney in justice court.
Tex. Gov't Code § 27.031(d) · read 2026-08-21 · official source
Texas publishes its own self-help pages
Not verified: Texas Rules of Civil Procedure 500-507 (the actual small claims procedure, incl. representation) NOT read.; RETRIEVAL NOTE: statutes.capitol.texas.gov is an Angular single-page app. curl returns a byte-identical 250,874-byte navigation shell for EVERY path, with zero occurrences of any search term. That zero is a measurement artifact, not an absence. This text was obtained by rendering the page in a real browser; WebFetch independently reported 'NO STATUTE TEXT PRESENT' for the same URL.
What this page is, and is not
Everything above was read at the source named next to it, on the date named next to it. Nothing is summarised from memory and nothing is carried over from a neighbouring state. Statutes are amended, so read the source before relying on it.
This is general legal information about Texas. It is not advice about your situation, and it is not a substitute for the advice of an attorney.