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Local rule of the Tarrant County Family District Courts, adopted by the seven family judges on Dec. 18, 2006 and approved by the Supreme Court of Texas (Misc. Docket No. 07-9023, Jan. 30, 2007): every final divorce decree signed on or after Oct. 16, 2000 that orders child support, and every final paternity decree not obtained by a IV-D agency that orders child support, is deemed to include an application for Title IV-D child support services through the Tarrant County Domestic Relations Office and the Office of the Attorney General (Family Code ch. 231); an obligee may decline by filing a written Refusal of Child Support Services and may later apply to the Attorney General directly. Supersedes the 2000 rule (Misc. Docket No. 00-9063).
Texas > Tarrant County > the Family District Courts — every final divorce decree and non-IV-D paternity decree that orders child support; obligees who wish to decline IV-D services.
"a. Each final divorce decree that includes an order to pay child support and is signed on or after October 16, 2000 by the presiding judge or associate judge of a Tarrant County Family District Court and each final paternity decree not obtained by a Title IV-D agency that includes an order to pay child support and is signed by the presiding judge or associate judge of a Tarrant County Family District Court after the effective date of this local rule shall be deemed to include an application for Title IV-D child support services provided through the Tarrant County Domestic Relations Office and Office of the Texas Attorney General pursuant to Chapter 231 of the Texas Family Code. b. Unless required to accept such services pursuant to other laws, a recipient or obligee of child support entitled to receive Title IV-D child support services pursuant to this local rule may decline such services by filing a written Refusal of Child Support Services. c. Refusal of Title IV-D child support services pursuant to this local rule does not preclude that person from making a subsequent written application to the Office of the Texas Attorney General for Title IV-D child support services. d. The provisions of this local rule supercede in its entirety the Local Rule Regarding Application for and Refusal of Title IV-D Child Support Services, Tarrant County Family District Courts, Misc. Docket No. 00-9063, signed by the Supreme Court of Texas on April 12, 2000." Adopting order (Dec. 18, 2006): the Family District Judges "find that the obligee in any such divorce decree or paternity order shall be deemed to have made an application for Title IV-D Child Support Services" and ORDER that the Proposed Local Rule "is hereby adopted and shall include by reference the Local Rules of the District Courts of Tarrant County and shall pertain to all Title IV-D Child Support Services provided pursuant to said Local Rule." Approved by the Supreme Court of Texas, Misc. Docket No. 07-9023, In Chambers Jan. 30, 2007 (Chief Justice Jefferson; Justices Hecht, O'Neill, Wainwright, Medina, Green, Johnson, Willett).
"a. Each final divorce decree that includes an order to pay child support and is signed on or after October 16, 2000 by the presiding judge or associate judge of a Tarrant County Family District Court and each final paternity decree not obtained by a Title IV-D agency that includes an order to pay child support and is signed by the presiding judge or associate judge of a Tarrant County Family Dist
Reviewer note: Image-only registration (4 pages: the Supreme Court approval order, the Dec. 18, 2006 adopting order signed by Judges Catterton 231st, Harris 233rd, Sullivan 322nd, Boyd 323rd, Hennigan 324th, Wells 325th, Lehrmann 360th and Presiding Judge Jeff Walker of the Eighth Region, and the one-page rule) read through the vision lane; rule quoted verbatim in full. Composed benchpath-ajr8-tarrant.
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