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In the United States, child support is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made directly or indirectly by an "obligor" (or paying parent or payer) to an "obligee" (or receiving party or recipient) for the financial care and support of children of a relationship or a (possibly terminated) marriage.
The court also decides whether child support is to be paid directly to the receiving parent, or via the responsible SDU. [2] The main tasks of a SDU are: collecting payments from the parent required to pay support - usually either by direct payment or by directing the parent's employer to withhold the payments from their wages [3]
[69] [70] [72] If the obligor owes back child support, they must continue to make payments until the debt is satisfied, regardless of the age of the child. Several circumstances allow for the termination of a support order for a child under the age of majority. These include the child's marriage, legal emancipation or death. [73] [74]
The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) is one of the uniform acts drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws in the United States. First developed in 1992 [ 1 ] the NCCUSL revised the act in 1996 [ 2 ] and again in 2001 [ 3 ] with additional amendments in 2008. [ 4 ]
In 1910, the National Conference of Commissions on Uniform State Laws approved the Uniform Desertion and Non-Support Act.The act made it a punishable offense for a spouse to desert, willfully neglect, or refuse to provide for the support and maintenance of the other spouse in destitute or necessitous circumstances, or for a parent to fail in the same duty to their child less than 16 years of age.
The Law also amended the Social Security Act (Title IV, part D), authorizing Federal matching funds for enforcement purposes—locating nonresident parents, establishing paternity, establishing child support awards, and collecting child support payments. [2] OCSS was established with the Federal Government’s enactment of CSE of 1975.
According to one study 38% of Illinois "obligor" parents not paying child-support said they lacked the money to pay; 23% used non-payment to protest a lack of visitation rights; and 69% complained of no accountability over the spending of their child support money, while 13% said they did not want their child or children and 12% denied ...
The Indiana Supreme Court is the highest judicial body in Indiana. The court oversees the lower courts and commissions that jointly make up the judicial branch. The other courts include the Indiana Tax Court, the Indiana Court of Appeals, and circuit, superior, and city or town courts.