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Texas Family Code - Section 157.316. Perfection Of Child Support Lien

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§ 157.316. PERFECTION OF CHILD SUPPORT LIEN.  (a) Except 
as provided by Subsection (b), a child support lien is perfected 
when an abstract of judgment for past due child support or a child 
support lien notice is filed or delivered as provided by Section 
157.314.
	(b)  If a lien established under this subchapter attaches to 
a motor vehicle, the lien must be perfected in the manner provided 
by Chapter 501, Transportation Code, and the court or Title IV-D 
agency that rendered the order of child support shall include in the 
order a requirement that the obligor surrender to the court or Title 
IV-D agency evidence of the legal ownership of the motor vehicle 
against which the lien may attach.  A lien against a motor vehicle 
under this subchapter is not perfected until the obligor's title to 
the vehicle has been surrendered to the court or Title IV-D agency 
and the Texas Department of Transportation has issued a subsequent 
title that discloses on its face the fact that the vehicle is 
subject to a child support lien under this subchapter.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, § 1, eff. April 20, 1995.  
Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 420, § 5, eff. Sept. 1, 
1997;  Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 911, § 23, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  
Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1023, § 24, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

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