HB 1953 Summary

• Creates a mechanism allowing the child support enforcement agency or noncustodial parents to require custodial parents to provide evidence that child support funds are being spent in compliance with support orders.

• Allows the agency to withhold disputed child support funds in trust for 30 days if the custodial parent fails to provide evidence of compliance within that timeframe.

• Grants noncustodial parents the right to petition family court for modification of support orders if a custodial parent does not provide requested evidence, treating such non-compliance as a substantial or material change of circumstances.

• Requires all child support orders to include a declaration that the obligee (custodial parent) must spend all child support funds in accordance with the order, with potential consequences for misuse including modification of the support order or forfeiture of misused funds.

• Amends the definition of "compliance with an order of support" to include custodial parent expenditure of child support funds in accordance with the order terms.