40-5-203. Child support enforcement services. (1) The department may accept applications for child support enforcement services on behalf of persons who are not recipients of public assistance and may take appropriate action to establish or enforce support obligations against persons owing a duty to pay support.
(2) The department may establish by rule the terms and conditions by which services are provided under this section.
(3) If child support enforcement services are provided under this part to or for a child as a result of the payment of public assistance, the department shall continue to provide services after public assistance is no longer being paid, subject to the same conditions and on the same basis as in the case of other individuals to whom services are furnished under this section, without requiring an application, application fee, or other request for services. Acceptance of continued services constitutes agreement to the terms and conditions set for applicants by the department under this section.
(4) Services under this section, including information requests, are available to nonresidents on the same terms as residents of this state.
(5) The department may terminate services under this section if it:
(a) receives a written request for termination of services from the person to whom services are being provided;
(b) receives notice that the child is receiving public assistance; or
(c) determines that the person receiving services has violated any term or condition set by the department for an applicant under this section.
(6) For purposes of credit rating reports by the department, the department shall indicate if the withholding is for delinquent support or for regular monthly support obligations.
History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 612, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 672, L. 1985; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 549, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 15, Ch. 702, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 41, Ch. 552, L. 1997; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 21, L. 2005.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support
Part 2. Administrative Enforcement of Support
40-5-203. Child support enforcement services
40-5-204. Cooperation by obligee
40-5-205. Payment of support money collected to department -- notice
40-5-207. Department authorized to enforce maintenance awards
40-5-208. Medical support -- obligation enforcement
40-5-209. Child support guidelines -- periodic review
40-5-210. Standardized fee schedule -- rules
40-5-213. Financial statements by obligor -- penalty
40-5-214. Scale of suggested minimum contributions
40-5-215. through 40-5-220 reserved
40-5-221. Debt to state by obligor -- limitations
40-5-222. Support debt based upon support order -- notice -- contents -- action to collect
40-5-227. Filing and docketing of final orders -- orders effective as district court decrees
40-5-228. through 40-5-230 reserved
40-5-231. Jurisdiction and venue
40-5-232. Establishment of paternity -- notice of parental responsibility -- contents
40-5-235. Effect of order establishing paternity -- birth records -- relief from order
40-5-238. Confidentiality of paternity hearings and records of proceedings
40-5-239. and 40-5-240 reserved
40-5-243. Release of excess to obligor
40-5-247. Warrant for distraint -- effect -- satisfaction of support lien -- redemption
40-5-249. and 40-5-250 reserved
40-5-251. Debt payment schedule
40-5-252. Interest on debts due -- waiver
40-5-253. Administrative findings and order -- administrative remedies -- judicial review
40-5-254. Statutory limitations
40-5-255. Charging off child support debts as uncollectible -- sale of support debts
40-5-256. Employee debtor rights protected -- limitation
40-5-257. Assignment of earnings to be honored -- effect
40-5-258. through 40-5-260 reserved
40-5-261. Procedures for making information available to consumer reporting agencies
40-5-263. Central clearinghouse -- enforcement services -- powers and duties of the department
40-5-264. Cooperative agreements
40-5-265. through 40-5-270 reserved
40-5-271. Registration of support orders
40-5-272. Application for review of child support orders
40-5-273. Notice of review of child support orders -- order for production of information
40-5-277. Administrative review hearing -- final order -- court approval of order
40-5-278. Limited review of support order
40-5-279. through 40-5-289 reserved