that where paternity is contested, temporary orders for the care and custody of the child may be made, but no temporary child support can be awarded. Upon a finding of paternity, as opposed to final judgment, the statute goes on to say that child support may be awarded retroactive to the date of filing the petition. It does not state that upon final judgment, child support can not be awarded prior to the date of filing the petition. To interpret this statute as allowing the award of child support back to the date of birth would be to construe the statute in a constitutional light as is our charge and as is our instruction from the legislature. Shoppers World, Inc., 380 S.W.2d at 111; see also City of West Tawakoni v. Williams, 742 S.W.2d 489, 491 (Tex.App.—Dallas 1987, writ denied) (<HOLDING>). Interpreting the statute in a constitutional
holding that the dominant rule to be observed in construction of statute is to give effect to intention of legislature recognizing that the cardinal rule in statutory construction is to give effect to the intent of the legislature and to avoid construing a statute in a manner that produces an absurd unjust or unreasonable result recognizing that a contract is to be construed to give reasonable effect to each of its provisions holding that in order for there to be state debt in the constitutional sense one legislature in effect must obligate a future legislature to appropriate funds to discharge the debt created by the first legislature holding principle of statutory construction is to give effect to every clause and word of a statute