Q: I moved from another state to Texas and still haven’t received support nor has the parent tried to see our child
Is there something I can file, or remove his parental right? He has another child and currently supporting that one without a court order and we are married (I’ve got nothing but 20 dollars from them) I’m a survivor of DV and I’m about to reach 6 months of residency what should I do? I’ve also been told they’re deciding to leave the state that I left but, I don’t even know where they are? Help please!
A:
Assuming you have a court order for support of your child from the state you left, you can contact the local Office of the Attorney General and provide them with a copy of that court order and ask for their assistance in registering and enforcing your existing support order here in the State of Texas.
If you do not have such a court order, you can file an original suit affecting the parent-child relationship once you have lived here in Texas for six months seeking sole managing conservatorship, child support, and a possession order detailing when each of you will have possession of your child.
You can file a suit for termination of his parental rights for non-support but, in my experience, those can be very tough to win even when you meet the statutory grounds. Of course, he may not oppose such a suit since he has not seen the child and apparently does not want to provide support for the child.
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