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1 | AN ACT in relation to support.
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2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||
3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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4 | Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | changing
Section 10-10.4 as follows:
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6 | (305 ILCS 5/10-10.4)
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7 | Sec. 10-10.4. Payment of support
Support to State | |||||||||||||||||||
8 | Disbursement Unit.
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9 | (a) As used in this Section:
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10 | "Order for support", "obligor", "obligee", and "payor" | |||||||||||||||||||
11 | mean those terms as
defined in the Income Withholding for | |||||||||||||||||||
12 | Support Act, except that "order for
support" shall not mean | |||||||||||||||||||
13 | orders providing for spousal maintenance under which
there is | |||||||||||||||||||
14 | no child support obligation.
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15 | (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code to the | |||||||||||||||||||
16 | contrary, each
court or administrative order for support | |||||||||||||||||||
17 | entered or modified on or after
October 1, 1999 shall require | |||||||||||||||||||
18 | that support payments be made to the State
Disbursement Unit | |||||||||||||||||||
19 | established under Section 10-26 if:
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20 | (1) a party to the order is receiving child support
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21 | enforcement services
under this Article X; or
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22 | (2) no party to the order is receiving child support
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23 | enforcement services,
but the support payments are made | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | through income withholding.
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25 | (c) Support payments shall be made
to the State | |||||||||||||||||||
26 | Disbursement Unit if:
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27 | (1) the order for support was entered before October 1, | |||||||||||||||||||
28 | 1999, and a party
to the order is receiving child support | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | enforcement services
under this Article X; or
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30 | (2) no party to the order is receiving child support | |||||||||||||||||||
31 | enforcement services, and the support
payments are being | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | made through income withholding.
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1 | (c-5) If no party to the order is receiving child support
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2 | enforcement services under this Article X, and the support | ||||||
3 | payments are not
being made
through income withholding, then | ||||||
4 | support payments shall be made as directed in
the order for | ||||||
5 | support.
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6 | (c-10) At any time, and notwithstanding the existence of an | ||||||
7 | order
directing payments
to be made elsewhere, the Department | ||||||
8 | of Public Aid may provide notice to the
obligor and, where | ||||||
9 | applicable, to the obligor's payor:
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10 | (1) to make support payments to the State Disbursement | ||||||
11 | Unit if:
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12 | (A) a party to the order for support is receiving | ||||||
13 | child support
enforcement services under this Article | ||||||
14 | X; or
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15 | (B) no party to the order for support is receiving | ||||||
16 | child support
enforcement services under this Article | ||||||
17 | X, but the support payments are
made through income | ||||||
18 | withholding; or
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19 | (2) to make support payments to the State Disbursement | ||||||
20 | Unit of another
state upon request of another state's Title | ||||||
21 | IV-D child support enforcement
agency, in accordance with | ||||||
22 | the requirements of Title IV, Part D of the Social
Security | ||||||
23 | Act and regulations promulgated under that Part D.
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24 | (c-15) Within 15 days after the effective date of this | ||||||
25 | amendatory Act of the
91st General Assembly, the clerk of the | ||||||
26 | circuit court shall provide written
notice to the obligor to | ||||||
27 | make payments
directly to the clerk of the circuit court if no | ||||||
28 | party to the order is
receiving child
support enforcement | ||||||
29 | services under this Article X, the support payments are
not | ||||||
30 | made
through income withholding, and the order for support | ||||||
31 | requires support payments
to
be made
directly to the clerk of | ||||||
32 | the
circuit court.
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33 | (c-20) If the State Disbursement Unit receives a support | ||||||
34 | payment that was
not
appropriately made to the Unit under this | ||||||
35 | Section, the Unit shall immediately
return the
payment to the | ||||||
36 | sender, including, if possible, instructions detailing where |
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1 | to
send the support payments.
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2 | (d) The notices under subsections (c-10) and
(c-15) may be | ||||||
3 | sent by ordinary
mail, certified mail, return receipt | ||||||
4 | requested, facsimile transmission, or
other electronic | ||||||
5 | process, or may be served upon the obligor or payor using any
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6 | method provided by law for service of a summons. A copy of the | ||||||
7 | notice shall be
provided to the obligee and, when the order for | ||||||
8 | support
was entered by the court, to the clerk of the court.
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9 | (Source: P.A. 91-212, eff. 7-20-99; 91-677, eff. 1-5-00; | ||||||
10 | 92-590, eff. 7-1-02.)
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