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t. e. Child support (or child maintenance) is an ongoing, periodic payment made by a parent for the financial benefit of a child ( State or parent, caregiver, guardian) following the end of a marriage or other similar relationship. Child maintenance is paid directly or indirectly by an obligor to an obligee for the care and support of children ...
[43] [44] The court further ruled that district courts in Texas did not have subject-matter jurisdiction to hear a same-sex divorce case. J.B. appealed to the Texas Supreme Court in February 2011. On July 3, 2013, the Texas Supreme Court sua sponte ordered supplemental merits briefing in light of United States v. Windsor. [45]
In 1910, the National Conference of Commissions on Uniform State Laws approved the Uniform Desertion and Non-Support Act.The act made it a punishable offense for a spouse to desert, willfully neglect, or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of the other spouse in destitute or necessitous circumstances, or for a parent to fail in the same duty to their child less than 16 years of age.
A new law in Texas requires convicted drunk drivers to pay child support if they kill a child’s parent or guardian, according to House Bill 393.. The law, which went into effect Friday, says ...
Noncustodial parent. A noncustodial parent is a parent who does not have physical custody of his or her minor child as the result of a court order. When the child lives with only one parent, in a sole custody arrangement, then the parent with which the child lives is the custodial parent while the other parent is the non-custodial parent.
A Houston, Texas, man was ordered to pay $65,000 in child support to his ex-girlfriend for a child he did not biologically father, according to KOCO.. A Texas child support court ruled in 2003 ...
The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act ( UIFSA) is one of the uniform acts drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in the United States. First developed in 1992 [1] the NCCUSL revised the act in 1996 [2] and again in 2001 [3] with additional amendments in 2008. [4] The act limits the jurisdiction that can ...
DALLAS (AP) — A new judge will consider if a Texas hospital can take a 10-month-old girl off life support despite her family's opposition after the impartiality of the previous judge was questioned.