Authorizes the Department of Social Services to issue an order for wage withholding upon request of the obligor. The new legislation also authorizes or the clerk of court to transmit the administrative or judicial order for withholding to an employer by electronic means in lieu or certified mail or service. Modifies the provisions governing income withholding and registration and modification of support orders. The new legislation specifies that an obligor's employer must comply with a withholding order from another state. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to review administrative support orders every three years, upon request, without the necessity of a showing of a change in circumstances.
More frequent reviews are available only upon such a showing.
Child Support Continued After Age 18 . Grants the juvenile courts and the circuit courts the specific authority to order that support continue for a child over the age of 18 who is permanently and severely mentally or physically disabled, unable to be self-supporting and living in the home of the recipient parent. Child Support Orders . Provides that when a court enters a decree for separate maintenance, it may also make a further order for child custody, visitation and support. Child Support- Other Caretakers.