Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Family Code § 8.260: WRIT OF WITHHOLDING AFTER ARREARAGES ARE PAID.

Where this section sits in the code

FAMILY CODE
TITLE 1. THE MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP
SUBTITLE C. DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
CHAPTER 8. MAINTENANCE
SUBCHAPTER F. WRIT OF WITHHOLDING ISSUED BY CLERK

(a) The court may not refuse to order withholding solely on the basis that the obligor paid the arrearages after the obligor received the notice of application for a writ of withholding.

(b) The court shall order that a reasonable amount of income be withheld and applied toward the liquidation of arrearages, even though a judgment confirming arrearages was rendered against the obligor.

Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 807, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

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