OFFICE OF ATTY. GEN. OF TEXAS v. SCHOLER

No. 11-0796.

403 S.W.3d 859 (2013)

The OFFICE OF the ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS, Petitioner, v. Richard Lynn SCHOLER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 28, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alicia Key , Deputy Atty. Gen. for Child Support, Greg W. Abbott , Attorney General of Texas, John B. Worley , Office of the Attorney General, Child Support Div., Deterrean Gamble , Mara Flanagan Friesen , Rande K. Herrell , Office of the Attorney General, Austin, TX, Daniel T. Hodge , First Asst. Attorney General, Angela Jacob-Ware , Office of the Attorney General, Wichita Falls, TX, for The Office of the Attorney General of Texas.

Earl Raymon Waddell III , Colleyville, TX, Ronnie V. Overman , Attorney at Law, Conroe, TX, for Richard Lynn Scholer.


Chief Justice JEFFERSON delivered the opinion of the Court.

When a marriage ends in divorce, and there are children involved, a court frequently orders one parent to pay monthly child support. That was the case here. Years later, the parents agreed that the father's support obligation would cease if he voluntarily relinquished his parental rights. Although the father signed the necessary paperwork, the mother's attorney never filed it in court. The father argues that...

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