Bexar County Domestic Relations Office
Anthony E. Neugebauer, Jr.. MA, Director
100 Dolorosa, 3rd Floor
San Antonio, Texas 78205
210-335-335-2809 - Direct line
210-335-1242 - Front Desk
aneugebauer@bexar.org
• 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, reunification counseling, and enforcement proceedings.
• Referrals for mental health services related to custody and access issues, such as Child Custody Evaluations, Psychological Evaluations, Parent Coordination, Counseling and Parenting Classes, are available upon request.
• The Bexar County Domestic Relations Office provides funding to support safe neutral exchanges and supervised visitation services through Guardian House and San Antonio Kids Share programs.
• Sliding fee Cooperative Parenting Classes are also subsidized through contract with Guardian House agency.
• Through contracts with independently licensed child custody evaluators, the Bexar County Domestic Relations Office can provide low-cost child custody evaluations.
• The Community Supervision Program receives cases transitioned from or outright placed on probation by the courts for non-payment of child and medical support.
Dallas County Domestic Relations Office
https://www.dallascounty.org/departments/childsupport/
Angela Igrisan, Director
600 Commerce, #201
Dallas, Texas 75202
214-653-6971 office
214-653-6613 fax
aigrisan@dallascounty.org
The Dallas County Domestic Relations Office, Child Support division utilizes a contract with the Texas Attorney General’s Office to enforce temporary and final child support orders out of Dallas County. We also input and update information on all cases (temporary, final, modifications) for the State Disbursement Unit. The Family Court Services division conducts court ordered Adoption and Child Custody Evaluations, in addition to Mediations.
El Paso County Domestic Relations Office
http://www.epcounty.com/dro/
Brian Stanley, Executive Director
500 E. San Antonio, Suite LL-108
El Paso, Texas 79901
915-273-3837 office
915-273-3539 fax
B.Stanley@epcountytx.gov
El Paso County Domestic Relations Office (DRO) Services
Provides child support and medical support enforcement services under contract with the Texas Attorney General’s Office (effective March 1, 2013).
Offers Friend of the Court enforcement for cases established prior to March 1, 2013.
Provides Community Supervision/Probation services for both Attorney General and Friend of the Court cases.
Administers an Access and Possession enforcement grant in partnership with the Texas Attorney General’s Office to increase parenting time for non-custodial parents through:
Facilitation
Mediation
Court enforcement when appropriate
Through the Legal Assistance Division, provides:
Enforcement and modification of access and possession court orders.
Enforcement using the County Order for denial of access and possession.
Reviews and educational classes for self-represented litigants.
Parent review conferences as an alternative dispute resolution process, with agreements reduced to court orders.
Through the Family Court Services Division, provides:
Custody evaluations
Adoption studies
Cooperative parenting classes
Guardian ad Litem services
Supportive supervised visitation services
Supervised visitation services through a contract with a local non-profit organization, including cases involving concerns of family violence
Guardian ad Litem services, supportive supervised visitation, and supervised visitation for cases involving family violence are provided in part through a grant from the Office of the Governor of Texas.
Fort Bend County Child Support Office
www.fortbendcountytx.gov/government/departments/child-support
Stephanie Sloan, Administrator
301 Jackson St.
Richmond, TX 77406-0118
281-238-2020
Stephanie.sloan@fortbendcountytx.gov
The Ft. Bend County Child Support Office is the child support registry for Fort Bend County District Courts.
Our office accepts and forwards child support payments to TXCSDU for clients that are in court, conducts case audits upon request and processes Terminations of Income Withholding Orders. Fort Bend County Child Support also provides customer service and creates cases within the OAG case management system.
Harris County Domestic Relations Office
https://dro.harriscountytx.gov
David Simpson, Executive Director
1310 Prairie Street, Suite 1080
Houston, Texas 77002
713-274-7300 Office
713-437-4744 fax
david.simpson@dro.hctx.net
• The Family Court Services Division provides child custody evaluations, issue-based investigations, adoption evaluations, contested adoption evaluations, parenting coordination, and parent workshops.
• The Legal Services Division provides self-represented services, establishes and enforces child possession/access, establishes, enforces, modifies and terminates child support, establishes paternity, and conducts attorney consultations.
• The Family Dispute Resolution Division provides family mediation and parent conferences.
• The Visitation Center provides supervised group visitation on the Saturday following the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Fridays of the month.
• The Community Supervision Unit provides supervision of parents placed on probation for violation of a child-related injunction, violation of a possession/access order, spousal maintenance or failure to pay child support.
Hidalgo County Domestic Relations Office
https://tx-hidalgocounty.civicplus.com/2860/Domestic-Relations-Office
Ida Trejo, Executive Director
100 N. Closer-4th Floor
Edinburg, Texas 78539
956-292-7048 Office
956-292-7050 fax
ida.trejo@hidalgo.tx.us
The Hidalgo County Domestic Relations Office provides a range of services to address the needs of separated families going through divorce or parent-child proceedings. Our DRO will assist parents resolve issues that arise after divorce, separation or establishment of a parent-child relationship. Our Social Workers will provide help through referrals so that children have a secure and peaceful relationship with both parents. Our DRO provides the following services: Access Facilitation, Cooperative Parenting, Court Ordered Orientation, Limited Scope Investigations and Child Custody Evaluations.
Lubbock County Domestic Relations Office
Gene Valentini, Director
P.O. Box 10536
916 Main St., Suite 800
Lubbock, Texas 79401
806-775-1720 office
866-329-3522, toll free
806-775-7929 fax
odr@co.lubbock.tx.us
Alternative Dispute Resolution Services:
•Conducts court ordered mediation
·Provides parent coordination and facilitation services
Community Intervention Services:
·Supervises parents placed on Community Supervision for failure to pay child support
·Conducts court ordered adoption evaluations
·Oversees court ordered supervised visitation
Tarrant County Domestic Relations Office
http://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/dro
Clint S. Dupew, Executive Director
200 E. Weatherford St.
Ft. Worth, Texas 76196-0290
817-884-1015 office
817-884-2591 fax
csdupew@tarrantcountytx.gov
Tarrrant County Domestic Relations services include the following:
- Legal Support Services (LSS) provides litigation support as the Local Rule Office for region nine of the IV-D Child Support Monitoring Program. LSS also assists non IV-D applicants requesting enforcement of final Tarrant County child and medical support orders. LSS, in collaboration with Family Courts Services, provides education, parenting coordination, and enforcement litigation of visitation orders. LSS assists the Tarrant County Family District Courts in administering their self-represented litigants’ dockets by reviewing final orders involving children and providing self-represented litigants the information needed to assist them in understanding, complying with, or enforcing their duties and obligations.
- Family Courts Services (FCS), provides education, parenting coordination, and enforcement litigation of visitation orders. Services provided by Family Court Services include court ordered child custody evaluations, abbreviated court services, parenting coordination, and high conflict co-parenting coaching.
- Child Support Services (CSS) include customer service, reconciled payment records and arrearage computations, issuance of income withholding orders and writs, processing of child, medical and spousal support payments and fees. Services provided by the monitoring program include enforcement of child and medical support orders through administrative efforts, review of child support orders for adjustment and/or modification, refer cases to Legal Support Services for legal action.
- Supervised Visitation Services (SVS) provides trained staff to facilitate court-ordered supervised visitation and exchanges by creating safe environments for children and parents to develop a closer relationship.
- Community Supervision Unit (CSU) assists parents placed on probation for failure to pay child support or for violation of a visitation order by referring parents to resources to secure stable employment, housing, financial education, and parenting education.
Taylor County Domestic Relations Office
https://www.taylorcounty.texas.gov/135/Domestic-Relations
Rosa Castillo, Executive Director
Taylor County Domestic Relations Office
400 Oak Street
Suite 110
Abilene, TX 79602
325-674-1210 office
Rosa.Castillo@taylorcounty.texas.gov
Domestic.Relations@taylorcounty.texas.gov
The Taylor County Domestic Relations Office is the child support registry for the Taylor County District Courts.
Child support services provided include:
Attend uncontested dockets for the Family Court for Pro Se cases.
Complete case setup for Taylor County cases for the Texas State Disbursement Unit.
Update registry-only cases for payments and maintain a permanent payment record for the court to provide complete payment records (including interest calculations and arrearages) for both parties and attorneys.
Assist with Income Withholding Orders and Termination of Income Withholding Orders.
Accept payments in the local office and forward payments to the Texas State Disbursement Unit.
Our office also processes spousal support payments directly to the parties that are ordered through the local registry.
Taylor County DRO is an ICSS participating county and serves as a Local Rule Office for Region 1 to provide child support and enforcement services under contract with the Texas Attorney General’s Office on Taylor County cases with established child support, medical support and dental support obligations.
Travis County Domestic Relations Office
www.traviscountytx.gov/dro
Scot Doyal, Director
P.O. Box 1495
1700 Guadalupe Street
5th Floor
Austin, Texas 78767
512-854-9674 office
512-854-6625 fax
scot.doyal@traviscountytx.gov
• Child and Medical Support Enforcement - Parents with a Travis County order that have not been on TANF are automatically placed in the Title IV-D Attorney General monitoring program. 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 order can apply for visitation enforcement services. Services include forums 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, counseling services, 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.
• Cooperative Parenting Classes - Domestic Relations furnishes parenting forums 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 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.
Wharton County Domestic Relations Office
P O Box 807 Wharton, Texas 77488
979-532-8894
• The Wharton County Child Support Office inputs case information and updates into the State Disbursement Unit System.
• Court appoints local attorney’s to CP’s when the NCP is more than 60 days behind in child support.
• Collects, posts and disburses court ordered child support payments to the payee or the State Disbursement Office. Also withholds court ordered fees (court cost, court appointed attorney’s fees, & annual service fees) and distributes them to the proper person or entity.
• Provides pay records for the court ordered support that is paid through Wharton County or the State Disbursement for local registry cases only.
• Monitors cases for ending collection dates and sends letters to CP’s to verify that child has turned 18 and has graduated.