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Texas child expense reimbursement deadlines
Texas Family Code §154.183 covers uninsured health costs for a child but sets no time limit for sending or paying them. The dates below come from the standard wording used in many Texas medical support orders, so they apply only when your order uses that wording.
If your order sets different days, or does not use the standard wording, your order decides.
Sending the bill to the other parent
Within 30 days after the date the bill arrived.
Pending lawyer review- Expenses
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Therapy / counselling, Prescription
- When it is used
- Only when your order uses the standard wording
- Citation
- Texas medical support order language (TexasLawHelp FM-Chil-312): submit bills, receipts and EOBs within 30 days after receiving them. Tex. Fam. Code §154.183 creates the duty but sets no time limit.
- Source
- https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._fam._code_section_154.183
The other parent paying their share
Within 30 days after the date the request was delivered.
Pending lawyer review- Expenses
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Therapy / counselling, Prescription
- When it is used
- Only when your order uses the standard wording
- Citation
- Texas medical support order language (FM-Chil-312): the other parent pays their share within 30 days after receiving the documentation.
- Source
- https://texas.public.law/statutes/tex._fam._code_section_154.183
Yearly notice date
By April 1 each year.
Pending lawyer review- Expenses
- Summer possession
- When it is used
- Only when your order uses the standard wording
- Citation
- Tex. Fam. Code §153.312(b) (parents 100 miles or less apart): possessory conservator gives written notice of extended summer possession by April 1.
- Source
- https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/family-code/fam-sect-153-312/
By April 15 each year.
Pending lawyer review- Expenses
- Summer possession
- When it is used
- Only when your order uses the standard wording
- Citation
- Tex. Fam. Code §153.312(b) (parents 100 miles or less apart): managing conservator designates one summer weekend by written notice by April 15 (or 14 days' notice on or after April 16).
- Source
- https://codes.findlaw.com/tx/family-code/fam-sect-153-312/
Review status
Every rule on this page is pending review by a licensed family lawyer in this state. Until that review, the app labels them the same way.
Rule set 2026-09-25.2 · as of September 26, 2026. Not legal advice.
Base child support is not collected in the app. If your order sends support through the state disbursement unit, pay or check it there: Texas Attorney General, Child Support Division (Texas State Disbursement Unit).
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Keep every date and receipt in one record
The app works these dates out from your own order, reminds you before each one, and keeps a tamper-evident record of what you sent.