Terms Used In Texas Finance Code 396.252

  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Written: includes any representation of words, letters, symbols, or figures. See Texas Government Code 311.005

In enforcing a child support obligation, a private child support enforcement agency or employee of the agency may not:
(1) identify the agency by any name other than one by which the agency is authorized to do business under the laws of this state;
(2) falsely represent the nature of the child support enforcement activities in which the agency is authorized by law to engage; or
(3) falsely represent that an oral or written communication is the communication of an attorney.