Tex. Codes » Family Code · TITLE 5. THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP AND THE SUIT AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP · SUBTITLE B. SUITS AFFECTING THE PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP · CHAPTER 158. WITHHOLDING FROM EARNINGS FOR CHILD SUPPORT
Texas Codes

Tex. Fam. Code § 158.002 (2026)

Suspension Of Income Withholding

✓ current as of May 2026
Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section TX-LEGstatutes.capitol.texas.gov Justiaon Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Sec. 158.002. SUSPENSION OF INCOME WITHHOLDING. Except in a Title IV-D case, the court may provide, for good cause shown or on agreement of the parties, that the order withholding income need not be issued or delivered to an employer until:

(1) the obligor has been in arrears for an amount due for more than 30 days;

(2) the amount of the arrearages is an amount equal to or greater than the amount due for a one-month period; or

(3) any other violation of the child support order has occurred.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 20, Sec. 1, eff. April 20, 1995. Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 911, Sec. 35, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1999–2017 · leading case: Zeifman v. Michels, 212 S.W.3d 582 (Tex. App. 2006).
Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment
Zeifman v. Michels, 212 S.W.3d 582 (Tex. App. 2006). “” Tex. Fam.Code Ann. § 158.002; In re V.L.K.”
Pena v. Pena, 986 S.W.2d 696 (Tex. App. 1999). “By her first and second points of error, Diana complains that the trial court abused its discretion in appointing Omar as joint managing conservator because the evidence showed as a matter of law, and by the great weight and preponderance, a pattern and history of physical abuse…”
Hugo G. Acosta v. Anabel Soto, 394 S.W.3d 665 (Tex. App. 2012). “Id. When determining issues related to conservatorship or possession of and access to the child, the best interest of the child is the primary consideration.”
John Lesley Wiley v. Cynthia K. Parker (Tex. App. 1999). · cites it 3× “066 (West 1996); and (2) that the trial court was required to order wage withholding to satisfy the money judgment for arrearages, s ee Tex. Fam. Code Ann. §§ 158.002 , .003, .005 (West 1996).”
Larry Neal Sullivan v. Yvonne Madeline Marie Lepage-Sullivan (Tex. App. 2017). “TEX. FAM. CODE ANN. § 158.002 (West 2014).”
Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.