OFFICIAL CHILD SUPPORT PAYMENT RECORD

(a) The record of child support payments maintained by a local registry is the official record of a payment received directly by the local registry. (b) The record of child support payments maintained by the state disbursement unit is the official record of a payment received directly by the unit. (c) After the date child support payments formerly received by a local registry are redirected to the state disbursement unit, a local registry may accept a record of payments furnished by the state disbursement unit and may add the payments to the record of payments maintained by the local registry so that a complete payment record is available for use by the court. (d) If the local registry does not add payments received by the state disbursement unit to the record maintained by the registry as provided by Subsection (c), the official record of child support payments consists of the record maintained by the local registry for payments received directly by the registry and the record maintained by the state disbursement unit for payments received directly by the unit.