MEXICO CITY: The mother of a Texas teenager who gained notoriety for his “affluenza” defense in a deadly drunken-driving case waived her right to fight extradition to Texas during a brief court hearing on Tuesday in California.

Wearing dark jail clothes and looking downcast, Tonya Couch, 48, was told she will be held in the custody of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and that the state of Texas has two weeks to collect her.

She spoke only in one-word replies to questions posed by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Sergio Tapia.

Couch’s fugitive son, Ethan Couch, 18, is fighting extradition to the United States from Mexico.

Dee Anderson, sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas, said he had no immediate information on Tonya Couch’s return.

The Mexican lawyer for a Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident in the US met with his client, but said he was not at liberty to discuss what they talked about.

Attorney Fernando Benitez sat down with his client, Ethan Couch, at the immigration detention center where the teen is being held on the outskirts of Mexico City.

Benitez said his client was “fine” and “everything’s OK.”

He declined to say whether Couch might drop an appeal that has suspended his deportation back to the United States.

The attorney said he was “not at liberty to disclose what we talked about,” adding that he had received “concrete instructions not to give information to the news media.”