Texas Finance Code

§ 396.001 — DEFINITIONS

FI § 396.001Title 5. PROTECTION OF CONSUMERS OF FINANCIAL SERVICES · Ch. 396. PRIVATE CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES · Art. A. GENERAL PROVISIONS

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In this chapter:

(1)"Child support enforcement" means an action, conduct, or practice in enforcing, or in soliciting for enforcement, a child support obligation, including the collection of an amount owed under a child support obligation.

(2)"Child support obligation" means an obligation for the payment of financial support for a child under an order or writ issued by a court or other tribunal.

(3)"Department" means the Texas Department of Banking.

(4)"Foreign agency" means a private child support enforcement agency that engages in business in this state solely by use of telephone, mail, the Internet, facsimile transmission, or any other means of interstate communication.

(5)"Obligee" means the person identified in an order for child support issued by a court or other tribunal as the payee to whom an obligor's amounts of ordered child support are due.

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Legislative history

Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 20 (S.B. 614), Sec. 32, eff. September 1, 2019. Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 20 (S.B. 614), Sec. 47(3), eff. September 1, 2019.