Title 5 › Chapter 159 › Subchapter F

Texas Family Code § 159.501

Employer's Receipt of Income-Withholding Order of Another State

Uniform Interstate Family Support Act · Enforcement of Support Order Without Registration

An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee or by the support enforcement agency to the person defined as the obligor's employer under Chapter 158 without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.

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

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Legislative history

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., R.S. Ch. 20 (H.B. 655), Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995.

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 607, Sec. 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1247, Sec. 28, eff. Sept. 1, 2003.

Sections that refer to this one

§ 8.206