Relates to eliminating the ability of a court to commit a respondent to jail or place a respondent on probation as a penalty for violation of a support order.
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Relates to eliminating the ability of a court to commit a respondent to jail or place a respondent on probation as a penalty for violation of a support order.
Relates to eliminating the ability of a court to commit a respondent to jail or place a respondent on probation as a penalty for violation of a support order.
Relates to the right to counsel in certain family court proceedings regarding violations of orders of child support and to establish paternity or parentage in the family court.
Relates to the right to counsel in certain family court proceedings regarding violations of orders of child support and to establish paternity or parentage in the family court.
Relates to dispositions in family offense cases and orders of protection against a child under eighteen alleged to be a person in need of supervision or to have committed a family offense; provides that no order of protection or temporary order of protection may be issued directing a respondent who resides with a parent, other person legally responsible or other party to stay away from the home of such individual if the effect of such order would leave the respondent without an appropriate alternative residence; relates to the right of a respondent under the age of eighteen to have a guardian ad litem appointed in a family offense proceeding in which the petitioner is a parent or other person legally responsible for the respondent.
Decreases the amount of time courts can imprison an individual for the non-payment of child support to five days per each failure to obey any lawful order of support and not to exceed thirty days total; requires courts to order alternatives to imprisonment prior to imprisoning an individual for the non-payment of child support.