Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 40. FAMILY LAW

CHAPTER 5. ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT

Part 9. Centralized Child Support Registration and Payment

Monitor Payments -- Enforcement

40-5-911. Monitor payments -- enforcement. The department shall monitor all IV-D cases in the case registry and payment processing unit to promptly identify failures to make timely payment of support. If payment is not timely made, the department may:

(1) determine why a timely payment was not received and take any action the department considers appropriate if there is an order to withhold income issued to a current payor;

(2) promptly transmit an income-withholding order to the obligor's payor if the obligor is not currently subject to income withholding; or

(3) promptly transmit an income-withholding order upon receipt of information identifying a payor if a payor was formerly unknown; and

(4) take any additional enforcement action the department considers appropriate in all cases with an identified delinquency.

History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 552, L. 1997.