Texas Family Code
§ 157.501 — JURISDICTION FOR QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER
FA § 157.501Title 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP · Part B. SUITS AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP · Ch. 157. ENFORCEMENT · Art. J. CHILD SUPPORT QUALIFIED DOMESTIC RELATIONS ORDER
Statute text
View on source(a)The court that rendered an order for the payment of child support, or the court that obtains jurisdiction to enforce a child support order under Chapter 159, has continuing jurisdiction to render enforceable qualified domestic relations orders or similar orders permitting payment of pension, retirement plan, or other employee benefits to an alternate payee or other lawful payee to satisfy support amounts due under the child support order. A child support order includes a temporary or final order for child support, medical support, or dental support and arrears and interest with respect to that order.
(b)Unless prohibited by federal law, a suit seeking a qualified domestic relations order or similar order under this subchapter applies to a pension, retirement plan, or other employee benefit, regardless of whether the pension, retirement plan, or other employee benefit:
(1)is private, state, or federal;
(2)is subject to another qualified domestic relations order or similar order;
(3)is property that is the subject of a pending proceeding for dissolution of a marriage;
(4)is property disposed of in a previous decree for dissolution of a marriage; or
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Legislative history
Added by Acts 2021, 87th Leg., R.S., Ch. 64 (H.B. 867), Sec. 5, eff. September 1, 2021.