Texas Attorney General and Child Support Laws

Texas Attorney Generalrequest of either parent or if one of the parents
Child Support can be enforced through the officeincome raises or falls. For example, a raise in pay
of the Attorney General. Any parent who wantsat work or a loss of a job.
to provide support for their children may do soEnforcing Child Support
through this office. The TAG office will provideThere are several methods the TAG office can
services to the custodial parents such as: locatinguse in order to enforce CS payments. These
a missing parent, establishing legal paternity,methods are used in order to make the
enforcing child support payments, and modifyingnon-custodial parents pay their obligations.
CS payments every three years.Interception of income tax refund checks, and
These services are provided to all parents whothe automatic deduction of the child support
apply for assistance. If you are a single parentpayments from the non-custodial parents pay
who is currently receiving assistance from thechecks are just a few enforcements that the
state or federal government, you areTexas Attorney General office will use in order to
automatically eligible to receive these child supportreceive timely payments.
services. The Texas General's office will not holdCS laws have to be enforce in order for the child
the custodial parents responsible for anychildren to receive support assistance for the
expenses for services.non-custodial parent. The Texas Attorney General
When changing a court order for CS, it can onlyoffice is there to ensure that all court order CS
be modified through the court system in Texas.will be enforced.
A review can be done every three years at the