GroundRules
← Search the law
Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Finance Code § 396.252: FRAUDULENT, DECEPTIVE, OR MISLEADING REPRESENTATIONS.

Read at publisher ↗
Where this section sits in the code
  1. FINANCE CODE
  2. TITLE 5. PROTECTION OF CONSUMERS OF FINANCIAL SERVICES
  3. CHAPTER 396. PRIVATE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES
  4. SUBCHAPTER F. PROHIBITED PRACTICES

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.

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.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:13Z. Source file · JSON

Browse this collection