Legal Opinion

Spates v. Office of Attorney General

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided January 28, 2016No. 14-14-00741-CVPublishedCited by 12 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

Ken Wise, Justice

The Office of the Attorney General, Child Support Division (“the OAG”), intervened in a lawsuit between Prodigy Services, LLC and Eni U.S. Operating Company, seeking to collect on three child support liens against Christopher Spates. Spates, a member and the owner of Prodigy, was not a party to the lawsuit. The trial court granted a charging order in favor of the OAG against Spates’s membership interest in - Prodigy, requiring Prodigy to pay the amounts of unsatisfied child support judgments against Spates out of any distribution to which Spates would otherwise be…

2Cases cited15 opinions

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3Cited by12 opinions

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