Sec. 152.1752. MONTAGUE COUNTY CHILD SUPPORT DIVISION. (a) The child support division in the Montague County Probation Department shall provide assistance to the district clerk in collecting child or spousal support payments. The division shall also assist in the enforcement of orders relating to the possession of or access to a child and may initiate contempt proceedings to enforce an order relating to the support and conservator orders.
(b) The person ordered by a district court of Montague County to pay child or spousal support to the district clerk shall pay a monthly service fee of $1. The district clerk shall deduct the service fee from each payment. If the payment is ordered to be made semimonthly or weekly, the district clerk shall deduct 50 cents from each payment. The service fee authorized by this subsection applies to child or spousal support payments ordered before June 14, 1973, if the person ordered to make those payments defaults and is cited for contempt of court. The service fee becomes due and payable for each month after the hearing on the contempt citation.
(c) A person found in contempt of court in Montague County for failure to pay child or spousal support shall pay $15 as attorney's fees if the contempt action is initiated by the probation department. The additional cost shall be collected in the same manner that other costs are collected.
(d) A person who files an adoption case in a district court of Montague County shall pay to the district court a filing fee of $25. The fee is in addition to other fees imposed for filing an adoption case in Montague County and is taxed, collected, and paid as other costs. Funds collected under this subsection shall be used to provide adoption investigation service.
(e) The district clerk shall transfer the money collected under this section to the county treasurer on the last day of each month. The county treasurer shall deposit the fees to the credit of the probation fund.
Added by Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 352, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.