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Services | Services Offered by Individual TADRO County Members 2008 Fee Comparison Chart (PDF) | | A Sampling of Services That May Be Offered by Texas Domestic Relations Offices - June 2006 Establish Order for child support, medical support and visitation Enforce delinquent child support, medical support and visitation orders Supervise probationers put on community supervision for non-payment of child support, medical support or denial of visitation Visitation monitoring Referral to visitation services such as neutral exchanges and supervised visitation Court ordered parent coordination to assist families with communication skills and post divorce effective co-parenting Jail intervention services for non-payment of child support Perform social studies for custody cases Perform social studies for adoptions Custody evaluations/Guardian ad Litem appointments Termination of parental rights/Guardian ad litem appointments Limited Guardian ad litem appointments Issue-Based investigations as directed by the Court Oversee psychological evaluations ordered by the Court in high conflict family litigation Refer/oversee counseling services ordered by the Court in high conflict family litigation Perform court ordered family mediation Receive, post and disburse child support, medical support, spousal support and fee payments Issue, amend and terminate income withholding orders Conduct attorney consultations Conduct parent conferences to attempt agreement on violation of court order High conflict parenting classes Referrals to fatherhood programs Referrals to mental health services Referrals to drug and alcohol services Referrals to education services Referrals to employment services Referrals to other community services Other activities as directed by the District Courts
Services Offered by Individual TADRO County Members Bexar County Domestic Relations Offices
The Bexar County Domestic Relations Office, through its ACCESS Program, provides intervention assistance where non-custodial parents with final orders are experiencing access/visitation enforcement difficulties and are without the means to hire a private attorney. Assistance includes screening assessment, access resolution, cooperative parenting, counseling, and enforcement proceedings. Referrals for mental health services related to custody and access issues, such as Social Studies, Psychological Evaluations, Parent Coordination, Counseling and Parenting Classes, are available upon request. The Bexar County Child Support Probation Unit, through its Children First Jail Intervention Program, provides alternatives to lengthy jail stays for a selected group of incarcerated non-custodial parents who are not making their child and medical support payments. The Community Supervision Program receives cases transitioned from Children First on probation or outright placed on probation by the courts for non-payment of child and medical support. Brazoria County Domestic Relations Office
collects, posts, and disburses court ordered child support payments to the payee or to the State Disbursement Unit. provides payment records for court ordered child and medical support that was paid through this office and provides a payment history from the Texas Attorney General's Office/State Disbursement Unit. updates information as necessary for the State Disbursement Unit/Texas Attorney General's Office as well as for Brazoria County District Courts. provides court appointed attorneys for the custodial parent, which are not on state assistance, for collection of arrearages. Dallas County Domestic Relations Office
The Dallas County Domestic Relations Office serves as a local rule office in conjunction with the Texas Attorney General's Office by providing child support enforcement, paternity establishment, and both temporary and final orders in suits affecting the parent/child relationship. El Paso County Domestic Relations Office
The El Paso Domestic Relations Office serves provides customer service, state case registry, and probation. Provides enforcement of child support, visitation, and health insurance. Conducts mediations and studies. Ft. Bend County Domestic Relations Office
The Ft. Bend County Child Support Office processes child support payments, conducts case audits, processes terminations of income withholding orders, provides payment records, and appoints attorneys to enforce child support, medical support, and visitation. Harris County Domestic Relations Office
Services provided by the Family Court Services Division include custody/access investigation, issue based investigation, adoption investigation, parent coordination, substance abuse testing, and high conflict parenting class. Services provided by the Legal Enforcement Division includes establishing and enforcing visitation and child support orders, establishing paternity, terminating income withholding orders, providing child support accountings, and conducting attorney consultations. The Friend of the Court Program is a monitoring and enforcement program to collect support and ensure visitation/access for children through monthly monitoring and, when necessary, litigation. The FOCAS (Focus on Collection & Services) is an integrated system of federal, state, and county resources to enforce child and medical support, using delinquency monitoring, administrative and legal enforcement remedies. The Criminal District Courts Probation Program enforces criminal district courts' probation terms to support dependents by establishing parentage. Services provided by the Alternative Dispute Resolution Division include family mediation and parent conferences. Services provided by the Community Supervision Unit include supervision of parents placed on probation for failure to pay child support or for violation of a visitation order. Tarrant County Domestic Relations Office
Services provided by the Enforcement Division include enforcing final orders for child support, enforcing final orders for visitation, and offering mediation, and if necessary, court action. Services provided by the Family Court Services Division include court ordered social study investigations, court ordered mediation, and court ordered visitation monitoring. Services provided by the Community Supervision Unit include supervision of parents placed on probation for failure to pay child support or for violation of a visitation order. Taylor County Domestic Relations Office
The Taylor County Domestic Relations Office serves as a Local Rule Office. This office also monitors registry-only cases and provides complete payment records (including interest calculations and arrearages) for both parties and their attorneys. Travis County Domestic Relations Office
Child Support Registry - The Travis County Domestic Relations Office serves as the child support registry for Travis County. This includes collecting, posting and disbursing child support payments, medical support payments, spousal support payments and fees. A copy of all Travis County payments processed by the State Disbursement Unit are downloaded daily in order to provide a full pay record of payments to parents, attorneys and the courts. Child Support Enforcement - Parents with a Travis County court order, that have not been on TANF, can apply for enforcement services with Travis County DRO. Services include telephone and letter collection, license suspension, contempt of court, community supervision (probation), incarceration, administrative income withholding and criminal non-support referrals. Visitation Enforcement - Parents with a Travis County court order can apply for visitation enforcement services. Services include classes for parents to enhance cooperative parenting skills, telephone conferences, appointments with parents, referral to limited fee mediations, referral to monitored neutral child exchange sites or supervised visitation, judicial actions through motions for counseling, and civil contempt for denial of possession. Family Court Services - Guardians ad litem are appointed by the District Courts to assist in custody disputes, termination of parental rights, non-agency adoptions, emancipation cases and some abuse cases. They perform custody evaluations, make home and school visits, and perform functions necessary to make a recommendation to the court. Child Abuse Statistical Database & Docketing - DRO gathers information on all child abuse cases prosecuted by the District Attorney's Office in Travis County. We docket all of the child abuse cases and attend every hearing. We track federal case processing timelines for Child Protective Services, the District Attorney's Office and the Courts. Monthly statistical reports are furnished to the District Judges, the District Attorney's Office, CPS, CASA and the Children's Rights Clinic at the UT Law School. Cooperative Parenting Classes - Domestic Relations furnishes parenting classes for parents going through divorce. Most participants are court ordered to attend. Community Supervision (Probation) - Domestic Relations Probation Officers monitor parents placed on community supervision for failure to appear in court, failure to pay child support and failure to allow the other parent court ordered visitation rights. Through a contract with the Office of the Attorney General, Child Support Division, Travis County Domestic Relations also supervises all Attorney General child support probationers in Travis County. |
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