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Texas Family Code - Section 154.242. Payment Or Transfer Of Child Support Payments By Electronic Funds Transfer

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§ 154.242. PAYMENT OR TRANSFER OF CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENTS 
BY ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER.  (a) A child support payment may be 
made by electronic funds transfer to:
		(1)  the Title IV-D agency;                                                   
		(2)  a local registry if the registry agrees to accept 
electronic payment;  or
		(3)  the state disbursement unit.                                             
	(b)  A local registry may transmit child support payments to 
the Title IV-D agency by electronic funds transfer.  Unless support 
payments are required to be made to the state disbursement unit, an 
obligor may make payments, with the approval of the court entering 
the order, directly to the bank account of the obligee by electronic 
transfer and provide verification of the deposit to the local 
registry.  A local registry in a county that makes deposits into 
personal bank accounts by electronic funds transfer as of April 1, 
1995, may transmit a child support payment to an obligee by 
electronic funds transfer if the obligee maintains a bank account 
and provides the local registry with the necessary bank account 
information to complete electronic payment.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 597, § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 1996;  
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 702, § 2, eff. Jan. 1, 1998;  Acts 1997, 
75th Leg., ch. 1053, § 2, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  Acts 1999, 76th 
Leg., ch. 556, § 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1999.

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