Tex. Fin. Code § 396.252 · Subchapter F. PROHIBITED PRACTICES
FRAUDULENT, DECEPTIVE, OR MISLEADING REPRESENTATIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In enforcing a child support obligation, a private child support enforcement agency or employee of the agency may not:
(1) identify the agency by any name other than one by which the agency is authorized to do business under the laws of this state;
(2) falsely represent the nature of the child support enforcement activities in which the agency is authorized by law to engage; or
(3) falsely represent that an oral or written communication is the communication of an attorney.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1023, Sec. 73, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.
Amended by:
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 20 (S.B. 614), Sec. 36, eff. September 1, 2019.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/FI/htm/FI.396.htm
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- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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