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 requires the petitioner in a dissolution, legal separation, parentage, or child custody proceeding to … 518A.45 Failure of Notice This section addresses what happens when the public authority is not notified of a family law proceeding involving … 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 governs legal services provided through Minnesota's child support enforcement program. It states that an … 518A.48 Sufficiency of Notice This section addresses when notice is legally sufficient in child support matters. It provides that automated child … 518A.49 Assignment of Rights; Judgment This section makes the public child support enforcement agency a party in cases where support rights have been assigned … 518A.50 Payment to Public Agency This section directs that court-ordered maintenance and child support payments be made to the public authority … 518A.51 Fees for Iv-d Services This section sets the fees that the public authority charges for providing IV-D child support enforcement services. It … 518A.52 Overpayments This section governs what happens when a parent paying child support or spousal maintenance (the obligor) overpays … 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 sets out the definitions used for the Child Support Payment Center (sections 518A.54 to 518A.56), defining … 518A.55 Central Collections Unit This section directs the commissioner of children, youth, and families to create and maintain a central collections unit … 518A.56 Mandatory Payment of Obligations to Central Collections Unit This section requires that child support and related payments be made to the state central collections unit rather than … 518A.57 Notice of Order This section allows a verified notice of order to be served on an employer, union, or payor of funds in place of serving … 518A.58 Escrow Account; Child Support; Maintenance Obligation This section lets a child support or maintenance obligor avoid having an income withholding order served on their … 518A.59 This section has been repealed or renumbered and no longer contains operative law. Consult the current Minnesota … 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 allows a court, on its own motion or a party's motion, to appoint a trustee to receive maintenance or … 518A.64 Administrative Seek Employment Orders This section lets the public authority enforcing a support order ask a court to require an unemployed obligor to look … 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 lets a court or the public child support enforcement authority suspend a parent's occupational or … 518A.67 Motor Vehicle Lien This section lets a court or the public child support authority place a lien on the certificate of title of a motor … 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 directs the court, a child support magistrate, or the public authority to weigh several factors when … 518A.70 Data on Suspensions for Support Arrears This section governs how government data is classified when a child support agency transfers records of a suspended … 518A.71 Security; Sequestration; Contempt This section lets a Minnesota court require security to ensure that ordered maintenance or child support payments are … 518A.72 Contempt Proceedings for Nonpayment of Support This section allows a person who is behind on court-ordered child support or maintenance to be held in contempt of court … 518A.73 Employer Contempt This section makes income-withholding and medical-support orders binding on an employer, trustee, or other payor of … 518A.735 Enforcement of Child Support This section lets a parent owed child support recover reasonable attorney fees and other collection costs from the … 518A.74 Publication of Names of Delinquent Child Support Obligors This section authorizes the state child support agency to publicly publish, at least once a year, a list of up to 25 … 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 requires the commissioner to make a case reviewer available to people who pay child support (obligors) and … 518A.77 Guidelines Review This section requires the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families to periodically review the state child … 518A.78 Worksheet This section directs the commissioner of children, youth, and families to create and publish a worksheet that helps … 518A.79 This section does not currently contain operative statutory text on this page and appears to have been repealed, … 518A.80 Motion to Transfer to Tribal Court This section allows a party or a Tribal IV-D agency to ask a Minnesota district court to transfer a postjudgment child … 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 makes a parent financially liable for public assistance (as defined in section 518A.81) that has been … 518A.83 Location of Parents, Access to Records This section authorizes the public authority responsible for child support to request and obtain information needed to … 518A.84 Child Support Incentives This section governs federal child support incentive payments. The only operative provision (subdivision 11) directs the …