payments). For example, while the Co@ divorce decree unequivocally designates the obligee to whom the court registry is to remit the child support payments, it does not attempt to 6x the obligee's address. We therefore believe that a district clerk may honor a change of address form that a child support obligee properly has completed and submitted, without a court order modii the original child support order to reflect the changed addresss Our conclusion remains the same even ifthe new address is "care of" a child support coUection agency.
A district clerk may honor a change of address request, even if the new address is "care of' a child support collection agency, that a child support obligee properly has completed and submitted without a court order modifying the original child support order to mflect the changed address.
DAN MORALES Attorney General of Texas
ZIfa~bas~ti~foror~vcsfinaocialassistanauodcrcbaptcr31~theHuman ~codeorhasappliedforservicesunderchapta76ofthHuman~ codc,~pcrson tberctryPssignrtotbe~oftbcAttorneyGma;llofTacaranyrightto~~childsupportpsymaus ofacbildforwhomtbepersonisclaimiogassistawx. Hmn. Rea. Code 8 76.003(a). In either -, a disuict cl& most directall child supportpaymentsto the statemgistry,tbe districtclerk mustnothonorachangeofaddresc~. Wealsottndamdthatsomewmuiesbavewn~with the OIlice of the AttoroeyGeoeml locallyto distribotemoneycolleotedio proceedingsbmogbt undertitle IV,partDoftheSocielSxrityAct. Thcse~tiesactastheattomeygenrra'sagmttocbangean obfigce'saddress. Brown Countydoes not, however, have such ao anaogement with the O&e of the Attomeyoeneral.
Additionally,acouRinanycasemaybyorderreguimthatachildsupportablig~-move modifythe originalchild supportorderif the obligee so&s to change his or her mailing ad&m.
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JORGE VEGA' First Assistaat Attorney General
DREW DURHAM Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Justice
WILL PRYOR specidcolmse1
RENEAHICKS State Solicitor
SARAH J. SHIRLEY Chair, Opiion Committee
Pqared by Kymberly K. Oltrogge Assistant Attorney General
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