723. But the Texas Legislature has stated in the Family Code that a parent’s duty to support minor children includes a duty to provide them with necessaries. See Tex. Fam.Code Ann. § 151.001(c). In addition, the Supreme Court of Texas and this court have concluded that a parent’s duty of support includes a duty to pay for the necessaries of the parent’s children. See In re H.V., 252 S.W.3d at 327, n. 55; In re W.J.S, 35 S.W.3d at 277-278. Under section 151.001(c) and this court’s opinion in Hardin, a trial court’s finding that attorney’s fees are necessaries for the benefit of the child supports a trial court’s order that a parent pay these fees as additional child support. See Tex. Fam.Code Ann. § 151.001(c); Hardin, 161 S.W.3d at 24-27; see also In re J.A.D., 2010 WL 2649961, at *4 (<HOLDING>). The only reasonable construction of section
holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in ordering that father pay attorneys fees to mother as necessaries for the benefit of the children in paternity proceeding and citing statutory predecessor to section 151001 holding that trial court properly assessed mothers attorneys fees as necessaries against father in case in which trial court ordered father to pay mothers attorneys fees as child support but did not state that the fees were necessaries holding that attorneys fees are necessaries for the criminal defense of a child holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in ordering that father pay attorneys fees to mother as necessaries for the benefit of the children in divorce decree and citing statutory predecessor to section 151001 holding in modification suit in which no enforcement was ordered that trial court did not abuse its discretion in ordering father to pay mothers attorneys fees as child support under the necessaries rule