The national medical support notice is a form promulgated by the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement. In Texas, the notice is required in all title IV-D cases in which the employee is ordered to provide health-care coverage for a child through his or her employment. Additionally, the notice may be used in any other suit in which an obligor is ordered to provide health insurance coverage for a child. Tex. Fam. Code § 154.186. It serves as notice to the employer to withhold for health-care coverage and includes information about the various responsibilities of the employer.
It may be downloaded from www.acf.hhs.gov/css/resource/national-medical-support-notice-form.
See the practice notes at section 9.43 for instructions for completion of the notice.
National Medical Support Notice
