Chapter 518A — Child Support

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Gross income includes … 518A.30 Income From Self-employment or Operation of a Business This section explains how income from self-employment or owning a business is calculated for child support purposes. It … 518A.31 Social Security or Veterans' Benefit Payments Received on Behalf of the Child This section explains how Social Security benefits and veterans benefits paid for a child are counted in child support … 518A.32 Potential Income If a parent is voluntarily unemployed, underemployed, or not working full time, the court can calculate child support … 518A.33 Deduction From Income for Nonjoint Children This section explains how a parent's child support obligation is reduced when that parent also has legal responsibility … 518A.34 Computation of Child Support Obligations This law sets out the step-by-step method courts use to calculate how much child support a parent must pay. The court … 518A.35 Guideline Used in Child Support Determinations This section contains the official child support guideline table that Minnesota courts use to calculate how much child … 518A.36 Parenting Expense Adjustment This section adjusts the child support amount based on how much parenting time each parent has. The more overnight time … 518A.37 Written Findings This section requires the court to put its child support findings in writing, including each parent's income. If the … 518A.38 Minor Children; Support This section authorizes courts to order child support when a marriage ends through divorce, legal separation, or … 518A.39 Modification of Orders or Decrees A parent can ask the court to change a child support order if there has been a big change in circumstances, such as a … 518A.40 Child Care Support In addition to basic child support, Minnesota courts must order both parents to share work-related or school-related … 518A.41 Medical Support Every child support order in Minnesota must address medical support for the child. This includes which parent provides … 518A.42 Ability to Pay; Self-support Adjustment This section provides a self-support adjustment so that a low-income parent who pays child support can still meet their … 518A.43 Deviations From Child Support Guidelines A Minnesota court can order child support that is higher or lower than the standard guideline amount if there are … 518A.44 Notice to Public Authority This section protects child support payments from being seized by creditors. Child support money held by the public … 518A.45 Failure of Notice This section establishes the child support payment center and requires all child support payments to be made through the … 518A.46 Procedures for Child and Medical Support Orders and Parentage Orders in the Expedited Process Minnesota has an expedited child support process that allows child support cases involving public assistance or … 518A.47 Provision of Legal Services by the Public Authority This section allows the court or public authority to require the paying parent to post a bond or give security to … 518A.48 Sufficiency of Notice This section allows the court to hold a parent in contempt for failing to pay child support. Contempt can result in … 518A.49 Assignment of Rights; Judgment This section allows the public authority to intercept federal and state tax refunds to collect past-due child support. 518A.50 Payment to Public Agency This section requires financial institutions to report certain account information to the child support agency to help … 518A.51 Fees for Iv-d Services This section establishes income withholding (wage garnishment) as the primary method for collecting child support in … 518A.52 Overpayments This section allows the child support agency to place a lien on the personal property of a parent who owes past-due … 518A.53 Income Withholding In Minnesota, child support is collected through automatic income withholding from the paying parent's paycheck. Every … 518A.54 Child Support Payment Center; Definitions This section provides additional enforcement tools for collecting child support, including the ability to suspend … 518A.55 Central Collections Unit This section authorizes the public authority to report parents who owe past-due child support to consumer credit … 518A.56 Mandatory Payment of Obligations to Central Collections Unit This section allows the public authority to deny or revoke a passport for a parent who owes more than $2,500 in past-due … 518A.57 Notice of Order This section allows the child support agency to subpoena financial records and other information from third parties to … 518A.58 Escrow Account; Child Support; Maintenance Obligation This section provides for the collection of child support through the seizure of workers' compensation, unemployment … 518A.59 This section allows the child support agency to seek a court order requiring a parent who owes past-due support to seek … 518A.60 Collection; Arrears Only In Minnesota, unpaid child support (arrears) does not go away when the child turns 18. The state can continue to use all … 518A.61 Collection; Revenue Recapture This section allows the public authority to use the state revenue recapture program to collect past-due child support … 518A.62 Child Support Debt and Arrearage Management This section allows parties to negotiate and reduce past-due child support debts through a compromise agreement. Both … 518A.63 Trustee This section authorizes the child support agency to place a lien on insurance claim payments, settlements, and awards … 518A.64 Administrative Seek Employment Orders This section allows the child support agency to seize funds from financial accounts of parents who owe past-due child … 518A.65 Driver's License Suspension If a parent falls behind on child support by three months or more and does not have a payment agreement, the court or … 518A.66 Occupational License Suspension This section addresses the priority of child support liens compared to other liens and claims against the same property. … 518A.67 Motor Vehicle Lien This section allows the child support agency to notify the paying parent's employer about the support obligation and … 518A.68 Recreational License Suspension If a parent owes six months or more of unpaid child support and has no payment agreement, the court can suspend their … 518A.685 Consumer Reporting Agency; Reporting Arrears If a parent falls three months behind on child support payments in Minnesota, the child support agency can report the … 518A.69 Payment Agreements This section establishes payment agreements that allow parents to pay child support in alternative ways when standard … 518A.70 Data on Suspensions for Support Arrears This section addresses the enforcement of child support orders across state lines, working with the Uniform Interstate … 518A.71 Security; Sequestration; Contempt This section creates the position of child support magistrate, who is a judicial officer authorized to hear and decide … 518A.72 Contempt Proceedings for Nonpayment of Support This section describes the powers and duties of child support magistrates, including the authority to conduct hearings, … 518A.73 Employer Contempt This section establishes the cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) process for child support orders. Support amounts are … 518A.735 Enforcement of Child Support This section provides that if the paying parent becomes incarcerated for 180 days or more, there is a rebuttable … 518A.74 Publication of Names of Delinquent Child Support Obligors This section addresses administrative processes for establishing and modifying child support orders without requiring a … 518A.75 Cost-of-living Adjustments in Maintenance or Child Support Order Child support and maintenance orders in Minnesota include automatic cost-of-living adjustments every two years, based on … 518A.76 Case Reviewer This section governs how the public authority processes and distributes child support payments, including the priority … 518A.77 Guidelines Review This section addresses the assignment of child support rights to the state when a parent receives public assistance. … 518A.78 Worksheet This section requires employers to report newly hired employees to the state so the child support agency can quickly … 518A.79 This section establishes penalties for employers who fail to comply with income withholding orders for child support, … 518A.80 Motion to Transfer to Tribal Court This section prohibits employers from firing or disciplining an employee because of a child support income withholding … 518A.81 Assignment of Child Support and Maintenance This section defines 'public assistance' for child support purposes and establishes the rules for when child support … 518A.82 Contribution by Parents This section allows the county to seek child support from parents whose children are placed in foster care or other … 518A.83 Location of Parents, Access to Records This section addresses the interplay between child support and public assistance overpayments, ensuring that child … 518A.84 Child Support Incentives This section provides for the recovery of child support debts from the estates of deceased parents. If a parent dies …