2025 Texas Child Support Guidelines Final Report
Texas Child Support Guidelines Appendices
Authors: Daniel Schroeder, David McCoy, Thomas Boswell, and Cynthia Juniper
Date: February 2026
Publication Type: Report, 72pp.
Summary
Texas is required by federal law (42 U.S.C. section 667(a)) and federal regulations (45 C.F.R. section 302.56) to review its child support guidelines at least once every four years to confirm that they lead to appropriate child support awards. Accordingly, Texas law (Texas Family Code section 111.001(b)) requires the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) to perform this periodic review and report the results to the legislature along with any recommendations for changes. The OAG contracted with Dr. Daniel Schroeder and the Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources (RMC) at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, the University of Texas at Austin to conduct a portion of the Texas Child Support Guidelines Review for the 2021 to 2025 period. This Final Report represents the culmination of that effort.