{"id":2247,"date":"2021-10-17T13:14:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T18:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2021-10-17T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T18:14:50","slug":"father-may-challenge-amount-of-arrearages-in-decades-old-texas-child-support-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/father-may-challenge-amount-of-arrearages-in-decades-old-texas-child-support-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Father May Challenge Amount of Arrearages in Decades-Old Texas Child Support Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1878 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-483611874.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-483611874\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-483611874.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-483611874-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/iStock-483611874-180x120.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/>Sometimes Texas child-support disputes can continue well past the child\u2019s eighteenth birthday.\u00a0 A Texas appeals court <a href=\"https:\/\/cases.justia.com\/texas\/first-court-of-appeals\/2021-01-19-00473-cv.pdf?ts=1633458245\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently<\/a> decided a case regarding back child support for children who were in their 50s.<\/p>\n<p>This case dealt with a writ of income withholding and child-support liens.\u00a0 Pursuant to Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 \u00a7 158.301, a parent may file a notice of application of judicial writ of withholding if there is a delinquency in child support that is at least the total due for a month. The notice must include the amount of the arrearages and the amount to be withheld. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 158.302(1).\u00a0 The obligor may file a motion to stay the writ within 10 days of receiving the notice.\u00a0 Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 158.307(a).\u00a0 The clerk of court may not deliver the judicial writ of withholding until a hearing has occurred. Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 158.308.<\/p>\n<p>According to the appeals court\u2019s opinion, the trial court ordered the father to pay child support when the parents divorced in 1970.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclure-lawgroup.com\/blog\/father-may-challenge-amount-of-arrearages-in-decades-old-texas-child-support-case\/#more-2247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes Texas child-support disputes can continue well past the child\u2019s eighteenth birthday.\u00a0 A Texas appeals court recently decided a case regarding back child support for children who were in their 50s. This case dealt with a writ of income withholding and child-support liens.\u00a0 Pursuant to Tex. Fam. Code \u00a7 \u00a7 158.301, a parent may file [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,247,246],"tags":[213,298,297,380,63,231,300,301,379,328],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-child-support","category-child-support-arrearages","category-child-support-arrears","tag-appeal","tag-arrearages","tag-arrears","tag-back","tag-child-support","tag-children","tag-father","tag-mother","tag-retroactive","tag-texas-family-code"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Father May Challenge Amount of Arrearages in Decades-Old Texas Child Support Case &#8212; Texas Divorce Attorney Blog &#8212; October 17, 2021<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sometimes Texas child-support disputes can continue well past the child\u2019s eighteenth birthday.\u00a0 A Texas appeals court recently decided a case regarding &#8212; 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