Tex. Family Code § 8.260
This is the official text of Tex. Family Code § 8.260, part of Texas’s Family Code — governs marriage, divorce, child custody and support, and adoption.
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§ 8.260. WRIT OF WITHHOLDING AFTER ARREARAGES ARE PAID.
Official statutory text
(a) The court may not refuse to order withholding solely on the basis that the obligor paid the arrearages after the obligor received the notice of application for a writ of withholding.
(b) The court shall order that a reasonable amount of income be withheld and applied toward the liquidation of arrearages, even though a judgment confirming arrearages was rendered against the obligor.
(b) The court shall order that a reasonable amount of income be withheld and applied toward the liquidation of arrearages, even though a judgment confirming arrearages was rendered against the obligor.
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