| HB 0686 | Relating to Child Support |
| Sponsor: | FIEBELMAN | Handling House Bill: | |
| Committee: | CHYF | LR Number: | L1583.01I |
| Last Action: | 02/28/95 - Referred H Children, Youth and Families Committee | ||
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HB0686 Fiebelman, Ken
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HB 686 -- Child Support
The bill creates 3 new crimes related to diversion of child support funds. The bill:
(1) Makes attorneys who knowingly take or receive child support funds to satisfy a financial obligation of the person entitled to receive the child support money (obligee) guilty of a class D felony. Consent of the obligee is not a defense to this crime;
(2) Makes persons who knowingly cause child support funds to be wrongly transferred to satisfy a financial obligation guilty of a class D felony; and
(3) Makes circuit clerks or deputy clerks who knowingly send a child support payment to an address other than the obligee's home address or an address where the obligee normally receives mail guilty of a class A misdemeanor.