305 ILCS 5/10-10.4
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 305 - PUBLIC AID|305 ILCS 5/ - Illinois Public Aid Code.|Article X - Determination And Enforcement Of Support Responsibility Of Relatives

Sec. 10-10.4. Payment of Support to State Disbursement Unit.(a) As used in this Section:"Order for support", "obligor", "obligee", and "payor" mean those terms as  defined in the Income Withholding for Support Act, except that "order for  support" shall not mean orders providing for spousal maintenance under which  there is no child support obligation.(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code to the contrary, each  court or administrative order for support entered or modified on or after  October 1, 1999 shall require that support payments be made to the State  Disbursement Unit established under Section 10-26 if:(1) a party to the order is receiving child support     enforcement services under this Article X; or(2) no party to the order is receiving child support     enforcement services, but the support payments are made through income withholding.(c) Support payments shall be made  to the State Disbursement Unit if:(1) the order for support was entered before October     1, 1999, and a party to the order is receiving child support enforcement services under this Article X; or(2) no party to the order is receiving child support     enforcement services, and the support payments are being made through income withholding.(c-5) If no party to the order is receiving child support  enforcement services under this Article X, and the support payments are not  being made  through income withholding, then support payments shall be made as directed in  the order for support.(c-10) At any time, and notwithstanding the existence of an order  directing payments  to be made elsewhere, the Department of Healthcare and Family Services may provide notice to the  obligor and, where applicable, to the obligor's payor:(1) to make support payments to the State     Disbursement Unit if:(A) a party to the order for support is receiving         child support enforcement services under this Article X; or(B) no party to the order for support is         receiving child support enforcement services under this Article X, but the support payments are made through income withholding; or(2) to make support payments to the State     Disbursement Unit of another state upon request of another state's Title IV-D child support enforcement agency, in accordance with the requirements of Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act and regulations promulgated under that Part D.(c-15) Within 15 days after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the  91st General Assembly, the clerk of the circuit court shall provide written  notice to the obligor to make payments  directly to the clerk of the circuit court if no party to the order is  receiving child  support enforcement services under this Article X, the support payments are  not made  through income withholding, and the order for support requires support payments  to  be made  directly to the clerk of the  circuit court.(c-20) If the State Disbursement Unit receives a support payment that was  not  appropriately made to the Unit under this Section, the Unit shall immediately  return the  payment to the sender, including, if possible, instructions detailing where to  send the support payments.(d) The notices under subsections (c-10) and  (c-15) may be sent by ordinary  mail, certified mail, return receipt requested, facsimile transmission, or  other electronic process, or may be served upon the obligor or payor using any  method provided by law for service of a summons.  A copy of the notice shall be  provided to the obligee and, when the order for support  was entered by the court, to the clerk of the court.       (Source: P.A. 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)