All child support payments shall become delinquent the day after they are due and owing. Child support is normally ordered to be paid on the first day of each month. All delinquent child support payments shall draw interest at the rate in effect on the date of the most recent order or decree. Interest on child support judgments is set by statute. Interest shall not accrue until thirty days after such payments are delinquent.
Interest is computed as simple interest.
Records of delinquencies in permanent child support payments shall be kept by the Clerk of the District Court covering a recording period of nineteen years. In determining the amount of child support to be paid by a parent, the court shall consider the earning capacity of each parent and the guidelines established by the Supreme Court. Upon application, hearing, and presentation of evidence of an abusive disregard of the use of child support money paid by one party to the other, the court may require the party receiving such payment to file a verified report with the court, as often as the court requires, stating the manner in which such money is used. No person paying child support who has payments automatically withheld from his or her wages shall be reported as being delinquent if the delinquency is solely caused by a disparity between the schedule of the person's regular pay dates and the scheduled date the child support is due.