40-5-805. Establishing medical support orders. (1) In an action or proceeding to establish a child support order, whether temporary or final, or to modify an existing child support order, the tribunal shall also establish a medical support order. In establishing a medical support order, a tribunal shall consider:
(a) the best interests of the child;
(b) the child's present and anticipated needs for medical care;
(c) the financial ability of the parents to pay for individual insurance or a health benefit plan; and
(d) the extent to which an available health benefit plan or individual insurance coverage is subsidized or reduced in cost by an employer or by participation in a plan on a group basis.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this part, a tribunal may not consider a child's eligibility for a public assistance program as a factor in determining a parent's financial ability to afford individual insurance or a health benefit plan.
History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 504, L. 1995.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Chapter 5. Enforcement of Support
Part 8. Medical Support Order Enforcement
40-5-805. Establishing medical support orders
40-5-806. Contents of medical support order
40-5-807. Mandatory provisions of medical support order
40-5-808. Persistence and duration of obligation
40-5-809. Effect of order on health benefit plans
40-5-811. Authorization to cure nonpayment of health benefit plan premium
40-5-812. Obligations of health benefit plan
40-5-814. Obtaining information
40-5-817. Adopted children -- preexisting conditions
40-5-818. Nonexclusion -- nondiscrimination by health benefit plan
40-5-819. Medical assistance eligibility
40-5-820. Void health benefit plans
40-5-821. Penalty imposed by tribunal
40-5-822. Duties of parents -- consequences of noncompliance
40-5-823. Health coverage -- notice of intent to purchase