Hart v. Jackson

1 Citing case

  1. In re A.W.

    No. 02-20-00296-CV (Tex. App. Apr. 14, 2022)

    We nevertheless reiterate that Section 154.013(a) specifically states that after the obligee's death, a support obligation continues as an obligation to the child; it makes no provision for payment to the original obligee's estate. Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 154.013(a); see Hart v. Jackson, No. 01-21-00059-CV, 2021 WL 5182669, at *3 (Tex. App.-Houston [1st Dist.] Nov. 9, 2021, pet. denied) (mem. op.) (stating that Section 154.013 "applies upon the death of the obligee and provides that there is no need to go through the obligee's estate because the money is then owed to the child named in the support order . . . ."); cf. Tex. Fam. Code Ann. § 154.013(b) (providing that a child support payment held by state agency or local registry shall be paid for the benefit of surviving child named in support order and not to obligee's estate); Scholer, 403 S.W.3d at 866 (stating that a parent's obligation to pay child support is not a debt to a former spouse but rather a duty the parent owes to his or her child); In re Marriage of Grossnickle, 115 S.W.3d 238, 242 (Tex. App.-Texarkana 2003, no pet.) (noting that Section 154.013 "provides that the Texas Probate Code [now the Texas Estates Code] does not control over the disposition of an estate when child support is involve