Tex. Family Code § 162.206
This is the official text of Tex. Family Code § 162.206, part of Texas’s Family Code — governs marriage, divorce, child custody and support, and adoption.
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§ 162.206. PENALTIES.
Official statutory text
A person who, under a compact entered into under this subchapter, knowingly obtains or attempts to obtain or aids or abets any person in obtaining, by means of a wilfully false statement or representation or by impersonation or other fraudulent device, any assistance on behalf of a child or other person to which the child or other person is not entitled, or assistance in an amount greater than that to which the child or other person is entitled, commits an offense. An offense under this section is a Class B misdemeanor. An offense under this section that also constitutes an offense under other law may be punished under either this section or the other applicable law.
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