Child Support

When a child is born to unmarried parents, the baby’s mother is automatically empowered with parental rights and obligations, but the father is not. Only once he is legally recognized does an unmarried father have any formal right to seek possession or access and make...

Child support exists to ensure that no child suffers because their parents are divorced or otherwise not living together. But every child of divorce in Texas does not receive the same amount of support from their non-custodial parent. Every family is different, and a...