SECTION 700.1108. Request for Child Support Orders

(a) Unless parental rights are terminated, the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services (PRS) must ask the county or district attorney to include a request for child support and health insurance in every petition for managing conservatorship and substitute-care placement, including court-ordered placements. If the child's parents are deceased, the court may order the parents' estate to provide for the child's care.

(b) The worker must inform the parents about PRS's request for child support and health insurance.

(c) If the caretaker is already receiving court-ordered support for the child, PRS must ask the court to make the child support payable to the Texas attorney general's child support division when PRS is appointed managing conservator.

Source Note: The provisions of this §700.1108 adopted to be effective May 15, 1992, 17 TexReg 2783; transferred effective September 1, 1992, as published in the Texas Register September 11, 1992, 17 TexReg 6279.