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Child support regulation changes

Published (4/15/2010)
By Mike Cook
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Recommendations from the Department of Human Services and county child support agencies related to child support collections and enforcement are now law.

Rep. Jeff Hayden (DFL-Mpls) and Sen. Don Betzold (DFL-Fridley) sponsor the law, most of which takes effect Jan. 1, 2011. Gov. Tim Pawlenty signed the law April 15.

Information the public authority for child support can request from employers, utility companies, insurance companies, labor organizations and financial institutions in order to locate child support participants is expanded to include addresses, home and work telephone numbers, mobile telephone numbers and e-mail addresses. Currently, only a place of residence, employment status, wage and benefit information and a Social Security number have to be provided. The definition of utility companies is expanded to include mobile phone companies, satellite television companies and Internet service providers.

The child support public authority will be permitted to administratively reassign basic support, medical support and child care support under certain conditions:

• if the child resides with the relative caregiver who has applied for public assistance on behalf of the child;

• the child has been placed with a new caregiver by a voluntary placement agreement between the custodial parent and the caregiver that was approved and is being monitored by county social service agencies; or

• the child has been placed in a new caregiver by the court and the child support issue was not addressed.

State law governing enforceability of judgments is changed to provide that child support judgments are enforceable 20 years after the entry of the judgment. This section applies retroactively to child support judgments that have not expired.

HF3299/ SF2562*/CH238

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