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Modification Kit
Here you will find all of the documents needed to modify your divorce decree.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Answers to questions about Child Support in Texas
What is child support, how much is child support, how to establish child support payments, withholding orders and more answers to questions about child support.
By: Texas Access to Justice Forms Work Group
Handbook on Child Support Enforcement
(Separate Website)
This resource provides helpful information about how to apply for child support enforcement services, how to find a noncustodial parent, how to establish paternity and child support orders, and how to enforce those orders across state lines.
By: Office of Child Support Enforcement
Affidavit of Inability to Pay Costs
Free form: The Affidavit of Inability to Pay Costs is a sworn statement, telling the court that you cannot pay the court's filing fees.
Ask an Attorney Video About Child Support Issues
(Separate Website)
View "Ask an Attorney Video's"
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Changing Child Support
All court orders involving children are subject to modification for changed circumstances.
By: Legal Aid of Northwest Texas (Dallas Office)
Child Support Video
(Separate Website)
Are you paying child support, or do you think you are entitled to receive it? How much should a person pay for child support? Can you ask the court to raise, or lower, the amount?
By: Texas Young Lawyers Association
Child Support Calculator
Use this fillable Adobe form to see an estimate for child support payments in Texas. This is only an estimate courts consider other factors to detemine child support payments.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Paternity Establishment FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
By: Legal Aid of Northwest Texas (Dallas Office)
Child Support through the Texas Attorney General's Office
(Separate Website)
Link to OAG Child Support site.
TXAccess.org
(Separate Website)
This links to a website of English and Spanish resources for parents who do not have primary custody of their children, sponsored by Legal Aid of Northwest Texas and the Texas Attorney General's Office. It contains legal information about custody, child support, visitation, grandparents' rights and paternity issues. It provides some forms that might be useful to a non-custodial parent.
By: Legal Aid of Northwest Texas
Do-It-Yourself Court Forms Free
Click here for one of the following forms below.
Divorce In Texas WITH Children
Divorce In Texas WITHOUT Children
Annulment
The uncontested process in Travis County, Texas.
Termination of Withholding for Child Support
Nunc Pro Tunc
DWOP
Modification Kit
Paternity Kit
Affidavit of Inability to Pay Court Cost
Default Judgment Kit
General Affidavit
Original Answer Information Sheet
Name Change for an Adult and Child
Expunction
Occupational Driver's License
Legal Notice
Service by Posting Kit
Service by Publication Kit
Serving the Document and the Certificate of Service
Substitute Service Kit
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Default Judgment Kit
(Separate Website)
These forms explain what you need to do to get a final judgment when the other party will not respond to the lawsuit or appear in court. This kit includes instructions and explanations about what you must do, a checklist for the forms you need, and the actual forms you can use. (New Adobe Interactive Form. You can now fill out the form online and print it.)
By: Travis County Law Library
Texas Attorney General Handbook for Non-Custodial Parents
(Separate Website)
By: Texas Attorney General
Wage Garnishment Law
(Separate Website)
When can your wages be garnished (taken) to pay for a debt that you owe?
By: U.S. Department of Labor
Serving the Document and the Certificate of Service If the other party in your case has filed an answer or appeared in court, and you need to file more documents in your case, you will need to give the other party a copy of the documents, or serve the documents. Read this to learn how to serve the document.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Suit Affecting the Parent-Child Relationship (SACPR)
Documents Needed to make custody, visitation, and child support orders for children. Use these forms only if the parties are not divorcing and paternity has already been determined.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
Termination of Withholding for Child Support Kit Free Forms
Use these FREE forms if you want to stop child support from being withheld from your paycheck because child support is no longer required in your case.
By: Partnership for Legal Access
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