Section 396.251 - Threats or Coercion(a) In enforcing a child support obligation, a private child support enforcement agency may not use threats, coercion, or attempts to coerce that employ any of the following practices:(1) using or threatening to use violence or other criminal means to cause harm to an obligor or property of the obligor;(2) accusing falsely or threatening to accuse falsely an obligor of a violation of state or federal child support laws;(3) taking or threatening to take an enforcement action against an obligor that is not authorized by law; or(4) intentionally representing to a person that the agency is a governmental agency authorized to enforce a child support obligation.(b) Subsection (a) does not prevent a private child support enforcement agency from:(1) informing an obligor that the obligor may be subject to penalties prescribed by law for failure to pay a child support obligation; or(2) taking, or threatening to take, an action authorized by law for the enforcement of a child support obligation by the agency.Amended by Acts 2019, Texas Acts of the 86th Leg.- Regular Session, ch. 20,Sec. 35, eff. 9/1/2019.Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1023, Sec. 73, eff. 9/1/2001.