705 ILCS 405/6-9
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 705 - COURTS|705 ILCS 405/ - Juvenile Court Act of 1987.|Article VI - Administration Of Juvenile Services

 (from Ch. 37, par. 806-9)Sec. 6-9. Enforcement of liability of parents and others.(1) If parentage is at issue in any proceeding under this Act, other than cases involving those exceptions to the definition of parent set out in item (11) in Section 1-3, then the  Illinois Parentage Act of 2015 shall apply and the court shall enter orders  consistent with that Act.  If it appears at any hearing that a parent or  any other person named in the petition, liable under the law for the  support of the minor, is able to contribute to his or her support, the court  shall enter an order requiring that parent or other person to pay the clerk of  the court, or to the guardian or custodian appointed under Sections 2-27,  3-28, 4-25 or 5-740, a reasonable sum from time to time for the care,  support and necessary special care or treatment, of the minor.  If the court  determines at any hearing that a parent or any other person named in the  petition, liable under the law for the support of the minor, is able to  contribute to help defray the costs associated with the minor's detention in a  county or regional detention center, the court shall enter an order requiring  that parent or other person to pay the clerk of the court a reasonable sum for  the care and support of the minor.   The court  may require reasonable security for the payments. Upon failure to pay, the  court may enforce obedience to the order by a proceeding as for contempt of  court.If it appears that the person liable for the support of the minor is  able to contribute to legal fees for representation of the minor, the court  shall enter an order requiring that person to pay a reasonable sum for the  representation, to the attorney providing the representation or to the  clerk of the court for deposit in the appropriate account or fund. The sum  may be paid as the court directs, and the payment thereof secured and  enforced as provided in this Section for support.If it appears at the detention or shelter care hearing of a minor before  the court under Section 5-501 that a parent or any other person  liable for  support of the minor is able to contribute to his or her support, that parent  or other person shall be required to pay a fee for room and board at a rate not  to exceed $10 per day established, with the concurrence of the chief judge of  the judicial circuit, by the county board of the county in which the minor is  detained unless the court determines that it is in the best interest and  welfare of the minor to waive the fee.  The concurrence of the chief judge  shall be in the form of an administrative order.  Each week, on a day  designated by the clerk of the circuit court, that parent or other person shall  pay the clerk for the minor's room and board.  All fees for room and board  collected by the circuit court clerk shall be disbursed into the separate  county fund under Section 6-7.Upon application, the court shall waive liability for support or legal fees  under this Section if the parent or other person establishes that he or she is  indigent and unable to pay the incurred liability, and the court may reduce or  waive liability if the parent or other person establishes circumstances showing  that full payment of support or legal fees would result in financial hardship  to the person or his or her family.(2) When a person so ordered to pay for the care and support of a minor  is employed for wages, salary or commission, the court may order him to  make the support payments for which he is liable under this Act out of his  wages, salary or commission and to assign so much thereof as will pay the  support. The court may also order him to make discovery to the court as to  his place of employment and the amounts earned by him. Upon his failure to  obey the orders of court he may be punished as for contempt of court.(3) If the minor is a recipient of public aid under the Illinois Public  Aid Code, the court shall order that payments made by a parent or through  assignment of his wages, salary or commission be made directly to (a) the   Department of Healthcare and Family Services if the minor is a recipient of aid under  Article V of the Code, (b) the Department of Human Services if the  minor is a recipient of aid under Article IV of the Code, or (c)  the local governmental unit  responsible for the support of the minor if he is a recipient under  Articles VI or VII of the Code. The order shall permit the  Department of Healthcare and Family Services, the Department of Human Services, or the local  governmental unit, as the case may  be, to direct that subsequent payments be made directly to the guardian or  custodian of the minor, or to some other person or agency in the minor's  behalf, upon removal of the minor from the public aid rolls; and upon such  direction and removal of the minor from the public aid rolls, the  Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Department of Human Services, or local  governmental unit, as the case requires, shall give  written notice of such action to the court. Payments received by the   Department of Healthcare and Family Services, Department of Human Services, or local  governmental unit are to be  covered, respectively, into the General Revenue Fund of the State Treasury  or General Assistance Fund of the governmental unit, as provided in Section  10-19 of the Illinois Public Aid Code.  (Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16.)