I pay child support right now, and I have until the end of the year to start finding health insurance too. So that means I have to pay the child support plus the extra cost of the medical insurance each month. Is this correct? Or is their something I don't know about?

The Texas Family Code (TFC) requires the court to order that health insurance be provided for a child involved in any suit affecting the parent-child relationship. If health insurance is available for a child through the employee's place of employment, the court may order the employee to include the child in the health plan. [TFC §§ 154.181, 154.182 ]

The amount the employee is required to pay for health insurance is in addition to the child support ordered by the court. Health insurance is a child support obligation and may be enforced as such. [TFC § 154.183 ]

A court order requiring that health insurance be provided for a child is a change in the family circumstances of the covered person equivalent to the birth or adoption of a child by the covered person. [TFC § 154.184 ]




Texas Attorney General (http://www.oag.state.tx.us/cs/index.shtml)

http://tlo2.tlc.state.tx.us/statutes/docs/FA/content/htm/fa.005.00.000154.00.htm#154.181.00