HD30 - Post Majority Child Support and Occupational License Withholding for Failure to Pay Child Support

  • Published: 1994
  • Author: Division of Legislative Services
  • Enabling Authority: House Joint Resolution 615 (Regular Session, 1993)

Executive Summary:
The 1993 General Assembly called upon the Division of Legislative Services to study two issues involving child support enforcement. Delegate Jean M. Cunningham patroned House Joint Resolution No. 615, which directed the Division to study the feasibility of denying state-issued licenses or license renewal to self-employed individuals who are delinquent in their child support obligations. Delegate Joyce M. Crouch sponsored House Joint Resolution No. 485 directing the Division to study whether child support should continue beyond the age of majority and, if so, under what circumstances.