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Texas · 89th Legislature Regular Session
HB187Relating to requiring a man determined by adjudication or acknowledgment to be a child's father to pay retroactive child support beginning on the first day of the calendar month in which the child's conception occurred.
Direction
Custody & supportchild supportAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 95%
Requires retroactive child support from the first day of the month of conception (instead of birth or later), and adds reimbursement for mother's medical, birth-prep and lost-wage costs, so more obligations for the non-custodial father.
pay retroactive child support beginning on the first day of the calendar month of the earliest possible date of the child's conception
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Custody & supportpaternityAI label
↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parentmodel confidence 80%
Changes the default order in paternity adjudications and acknowledgments to require retroactive support from conception, increasing obligations tied to establishing paternity.
in any order rendered under Chapter 160 establishing a man's paternity of a child, or in any suit to establish the child support obligation of a man whose paternity has been established by the execution of a valid acknowledgment of paternity
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Filed (completed)
Committee
Passed one chamber
Passed both
Governor
Law
Status: Died (session ended)
Last action
2025-02-27: Referred to s/c on Family & Fiduciary Relationships by Speaker
Why the model tagged it this way: The bill mandates retroactive child support starting at conception (with added reimbursements for pregnancy-related costs) in paternity orders and acknowledgments, and changes 'may' to 'shall' for such orders, increasing financial obligations for the adjudicated or acknowledged father; no other listed topics are substantively addressed.
Related bills
HB947Relating to a suit for dissolution of a marriage and associated suit affecting the parent-child relationship when a party is pregnant.↑Expands rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Filed
HB737Relating to searches of the state registry of paternity.=No change to rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Filed
HB175Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's concep↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Died (session ended)
HB88Relating to a court order for retroactive child support, including for retroactive child support beginning on the date of the child's concep↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent↓Restricts rights of the paying or noncustodial parent Died (session ended)