Art. 2.025 SPECIAL DUTY OF DISTRICT OR COUNTY ATTORNEY RELATING TO CHILD SUPPORT

If someone who owes child support gives the money to a district or county attorney instead of paying it the normal way, the attorney can't just hold onto it or handle it themselves. The law requires the attorney to send that money to the correct place, either the local registry or the Title IV-D agency, which is the office that was named in the original child support order.

This rule exists to make sure child support payments actually reach the right system and get properly credited to the parent who owes support. It stops payments from getting lost or mishandled just because they were given to the wrong person first. In short, if a prosecutor's office ends up with child support money by accident or through some other circumstance, they have a legal duty to pass it along to the agency that's supposed to track and distribute it.