Texas personal injury attorneys representing child sexual abuse victims are getting more calls from clients because of a new law that doubled their statute of limitations.

Other states, including New York and New Jersey, recently passed laws to permit a window of time in which child sex abuse survivors, regardless of whether their abuse happened six or 60 years ago, could sue their abusers and any institutions that enabled the abuse. Those states have been flooded with personal injury lawsuits. There might also be a wave of litigation in Texas, but because the state’s new law isn’t as lenient, the impact won’t be as drastic.

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