was entitled to “as a matter of equity and law.” The court’s order did not state that payments could now be made directly to the son, rather than through the county child support registry as previously ordered. In fact, the order granting the credit also ordered Stevens to pay all remaining child support through that same county registry. Thus, we need not decide whether Social Security dependent’s disability benefits could ever be construed as a true child support payment because, here, the court’s order clearly did not treat it as such. We turn, instead, to the issue properly presented before us — namely whether the trial court, in rendering its money judgment, could grant Stevens a $7,200 special credit against his arrearages based on the dependent’s d Texarkana 1996, no writ) (<HOLDING>). We will first look to the Family Code for
holding that credit for social security old age and survivor benefits does not also include credit for federal disability benefits holding that use of social security benefits satisfied child support obligation holding noncustodial parent not entitled to an automatic credit and court could order child support in addition to social security disability dependency benefits holding parent has right to credit for social security retirement payments made for child holding parent entitled to credit for any social security disability benefits paid to child as a result of parents disability