HB 1612 Summary

• Prohibits treating parental incarceration of 180+ days as voluntary unemployment when establishing or modifying child support awards.

• Requires the Supreme Court to review and revise the family support chart at least every four years with a committee including judges, legislators, legal services providers, and attorneys.

• Establishes that inconsistencies between existing child support awards and the family support chart constitute material changes warranting modification, unless due to quantitative standards, prior guideline rebuttals, or chart revisions only.

• Expands the centralized child support clearinghouse requirements to include all cases where noncustodial parent income is subject to withholding, and allows redirection of payments to physical custodians when children reside with them for more than eight consecutive weeks.

• Effective January 1, 2020.