73R4239 MJW-F
By Rangel H.B. No. 2185
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to findings in child support orders.
1-3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-4 SECTION 1. Section 14.057(a), Family Code, is amended to
1-5 read as follows:
1-6 (a) Without regard to Rules 296 through 299, Texas Rules of
1-7 Civil Procedure, in any suit affecting the parent-child
1-8 relationship or reciprocal child support action in which child
1-9 support is contested and the amount of the support <order> is set
1-10 or modified by the court, on written request made or filed with the
1-11 court not later than 10 days after the date of the hearing or an
1-12 oral request made in open court during the hearing, the court shall
1-13 state the following in the child support order:
1-14 "(1) the amount of net resources available to the
1-15 obligor per month is $________;
1-16 "(2) the amount of net resources available to the
1-17 obligee per month is $________;
1-18 "(3) the amount of child support payments per month
1-19 that is computed if Section 14.055, Family Code, is applied is
1-20 $_______;
1-21 "(4) the percentage applied to the obligor's net
1-22 resources for child support by the actual order rendered by the
1-23 court is _______%; and, if applicable,
1-24 "(5) the specific reasons that the amount of support
2-1 per month ordered by the court varies from the amount computed by
2-2 applying the percentage guidelines pursuant to Section 14.055,
2-3 Family Code, are:_________."
2-4 SECTION 2. This Act takes effect September 1, 1993, and
2-5 applies to a suit affecting the parent-child relationship or a
2-6 reciprocal child support action without regard to whether the suit
2-7 or action was filed before, on, or after that date.
2-8 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the
2-9 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-10 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-11 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-12 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.