{"id":1463,"date":"2019-11-06T12:50:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2019-11-06T12:50:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:50:31","slug":"court-lifts-texas-oag-suspension-of-drivers-license-for-failure-to-pay-child-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/court-lifts-texas-oag-suspension-of-drivers-license-for-failure-to-pay-child-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Lifts Texas OAG Suspension of Driver&#8217;s License for Failure to Pay Child Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is responsible for certain child support services, including collecting and enforcing Texas child support orders.\u00a0 Recipients of certain public assistance programs may automatically qualify for the OAG\u2019s child support services, but others have to apply for the services.\u00a0 The OAG has a variety of ways to enforce child support, including filing liens, issuing writs of withholdings to the parent\u2019s employer, suspending driver\u2019s licenses, and intercepting tax refunds or other money from state or federal sources.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/thirteenth-court-of-appeals\/2019-13-17-00544-cv.pdf?ts=1571314577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent case<\/a>, a father challenged the OAG\u2019s enforcement actions against him.\u00a0 The father was ordered to pay child support beginning in December 1996.\u00a0 The court also issued an Order Enforcing Child Support Obligation in October 1999, including a cumulative money judgment for $15,000 plus interest against the father in favor of the Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the OAG sent a notice of child support lien to the father\u2019s bank and issued administrative writs of withholding to his employers.\u00a0 The OAG also filed a petition with the State Office of Administrative Hearings for the father\u2019s driver\u2019s license suspension.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/court-lifts-texas-oag-suspension-of-drivers-license-for-failure-to-pay-child-support\/#more-1463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is responsible for certain child support services, including collecting and enforcing Texas child support orders.\u00a0 Recipients of certain public assistance programs may automatically qualify for the OAG\u2019s child support services, but others have to apply for the services.\u00a0 The OAG has a variety of ways to enforce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Lifts Texas OAG Suspension of Driver&#039;s License for Failure to Pay Child Support &#8212; 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