Montana § 40-5-911 - Monitor Payments -- Enforcement
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§ 40-5-911. Monitor Payments -- Enforcement
Monitor payments -- enforcement. The department shall monitor all IV-D cases in the case registry and payment processing unit to promptly identify failures to make timely payment of support. If payment is not timely made, the department may: (1) determine why a timely payment was not received and take any action the department considers appropriate if there is an order to withhold income issued to a current payor; (2) promptly transmit an income-withholding order to the obligor's payor if the obligor is not currently subject to income withholding; or (3) promptly transmit an income-withholding order upon receipt of information identifying a payor if a payor was formerly unknown; and (4) take any additional enforcement action the department considers appropriate in all cases with an identified delinquency.
Source: official Montana text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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