Title 5 › Chapter 159 › Subchapter B

Texas Family Code § 159.105

Application of Chapter to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding

Uniform Interstate Family Support Act · General Provisions

(a) A tribunal of this state shall apply Subchapters B through G and, as applicable, Subchapter H to a support proceeding involving:

(1) a foreign support order;

(2) a foreign tribunal; or

(3) an obligee, obligor, or child residing in a foreign country.

(b) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of Subchapters B through G.

(c) Subchapter H applies only to a support proceeding under the Convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of Subchapter H is inconsistent with Subchapters B through G, Subchapter H controls.

Official text of the Texas Family Code as published by the Texas Legislative Council.

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 368 (H.B. 3538), Sec. 4, eff. July 1, 2015.