Texas Family Code - Section 159.507. Administrative Enforcement Of Orders

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§ 159.507. ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORCEMENT OF ORDERS.  (a) A 
party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support 
order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued by a tribunal 
of another state may send the documents required for registering 
the order to a support enforcement agency of this state.
	(b)  On receipt of the documents, the support enforcement 
agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall 
consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure 
authorized by the law of this state to enforce a support order or an 
income-withholding order, or both.  If the obligor does not contest 
administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered.  If 
the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of 
the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order 
under this chapter.

Added by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 607, § 13, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.  
Amended by Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 1247, § 31, eff. Sept. 1, 
2003.

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