{"id":1636,"date":"2020-07-31T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.texasdivorceattorneyblog.com\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2020-07-31T08:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:00:21","slug":"texas-appeals-court-allows-adult-daughter-to-pursue-outstanding-child-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-allows-adult-daughter-to-pursue-outstanding-child-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Appeals Court Allows Adult Daughter to Pursue Outstanding Child Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a parent fails to pay court-ordered child support in Texas, the obligee may pursue a number of cumulative remedies.\u00a0 The obligee may seek a contempt of court order, a cumulative money judgment, a child support lien against certain property, a judicial writ of withholding, and an administrative writ of withholding.\u00a0 The court keeps jurisdiction to confirm the amount of arrearages and render a cumulative money judgment for a motion for enforcement that is filed within 10 years of termination of the obligation or the child reaching adult hood.\u00a0 Tex. 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Code \u00a7157.005.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.txcourts.gov\/media\/1449030\/181119f.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent case<\/a>, the appeals court allowed an adult to pursue the child support her father owed after her mother\u2019s death.\u00a0 The father was ordered to pay $250 per month in child support at the time of the divorce in 1980, but did not pay.\u00a0 The mother initiated an enforcement action in 2011, but it was never heard and she died in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, the daughter, then 41 years old, served a notice of application for judicial writ of withholding on her father.\u00a0 The father moved to stay the issuance of the income withholding order.\u00a0 The daughter argued the father had failed to timely contest the notice so the arrearages sworn to in the notice had been determined as a matter of law.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/texas-appeals-court-allows-adult-daughter-to-pursue-outstanding-child-support\/#more-1636\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a parent fails to pay court-ordered child support in Texas, the obligee may pursue a number of cumulative remedies.\u00a0 The obligee may seek a contempt of court order, a cumulative money judgment, a child support lien against certain property, a judicial writ of withholding, and an administrative writ of withholding.\u00a0 The court keeps jurisdiction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-support"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Appeals Court Allows Adult Daughter to Pursue Outstanding Child Support &#8212; 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