Child Support Modification

People’s financial circumstances change. So do their financial needs. Texas law allows modification of child support obligations if the circumstances of you, your child, or the other parent have materially and substantially changed since the rendition of your last court order.

Examples of material and substantial changes in circumstances include:

• A change in either parent's financial circumstances (e.g., loss of job, increase or decrease in salary, birth of another child)
• The financial needs of the child increase as the child grows older (e.g., due to increased educational expenses, recreational and extracurricular expenses).
• Change in the cost to exercise visitation or custody rights (e.g., if parent with primary custody moves farther away).
• The child moves out of the home of the parent who receives child support.