Attorney General of Texas v. Steen

This is a Title IV-D interstate child-support case brought under the Revised Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act, Tex.Fam.Code Ann. §§ 21.01-.43 (Supp.1992) (RURESA). See Tex.Fam.Code Ann. § 14.80(2) (Supp.1992) (defining “Title IV-D case”). Because no party to the district court’s final order has appealed, we will dismiss the cause for want of jurisdiction.

Elizabeth R. Smith divorced appellee William David Steen in 1983 in a Texas district court, and she was appointed managing conservator of the minor children and awarded child support from Steen. Smith remarried in 1987 and…