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Bill would authorize email contact in family orders and clarify judgment procedures; AG staff available as resource
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Summary
Senate Bill 1404 would permit courts to require email addresses in final orders affecting the parent-child relationship, clarify requirements for separate judgments, and allow service by email in some modification actions. Attorney General staff presented as resource; bill left pending.
Senate Bill 1404, presented by Senator Creighton on behalf of Senator West, would permit courts to require a party to provide an email address in a final order affecting the parent-child relationship when other contact information is nondisclosed, clarify when separate judgments are required for separate obligations, and allow notice in modification actions to be sent to the most recent residence, employment, or email on file.
Senator Creighton told the committee the bill addresses ambiguities in the Family Code around contact information and service of process in subsequent modification suits. The layout included a prospective substitute to make technical changes. Matthew Block, an assistant attorney general who leads child support legal services, and other AG staff attended and made themselves available as resources; no substantive opposition was recorded.
The committee took technical testimony and the bill remains pending.
