Child Support

Texas continues to see significant increases in the amount of unpaid child support. The amount owed has trended upwards over the past five years.  Custodial parents who rely on child support payments to help feed and clothe their children are undoubtedly feeling the...

Legislative efforts to give judges in Plano and other parts of Texas the ability to enforce support orders with six-month jail sentences might have caught the father of an 11-year-old boy in a clerical nightmare. The dad was paying his court-ordered child support by...

Texas officials want residents of the state to know if they do not meet their financial obligations to their children, they could go to jail. That message was received loudly and clearly by more than 150 parents in five South Texas counties who recently were arrested...

Texas parents who aren't receiving child support payments from their ex-spouse may be interested to know they're not alone in this predicament. Nationally, non-custodial parents are behind $14 billion in child support payments, the U.S. Census Bureau said...

Basketball player Allen Iverson remains in a child support dispute with his ex-wife as of August. The 38-year-old had previously played as a point guard with the Philadelphia 76ers from 1996 to 2006, and from 2009 to 2010. Iverson's ex-wife has allegedly been seeking...

Texas residents who are interested in celebrity news may have spotted recent headlines about Charlie Sheen's July 10 request to a judge that he no longer pay child support to ex-wife Brooke Mueller. The couple's twins were removed from Mueller's home and placed with...

When he left his Texas high school for college, quarterback John Skelton left behind a pregnant girlfriend. She now says he owes her back child support for their daughter. Court records confirm that Skelton, who recently was picked up by the Cincinnati Bengals, owes...

Many Texas residents undoubtedly were disappointed to learn there was only one person holding the winning numbers for a huge Powerball jackpot in late March. That man won a staggering $338 million, which he has opted to take as a $211 million lump-sum payment, the...

The Texas Attorney General's Office has developed a program to target parents who are behind on their child support payments. Through the Child Support Evader initiative, the state plans to publicly identify delinquent parents by name and to display their photographs...

In 2012, a Texas man successfully defended a child support claim brought by the mother of two children who were conceived with sperm he donated. In 2008, another sperm donor, who had regular contact with the children and had agreed to provide some support, lost a case...