LD 1589
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graduated from secondary school; any child reaches 19 years of age
without having graduated from secondary school; any child obtains
an order of emancipation; or any child dies. This change is made
in response to the decision of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in
Bartlett v. Anderson, 2005 ME 10, 866 A.2d 829.

 
5. It allows the department to assist either party in the
modification of a child support order.

 
6. It allows the department to serve notice of the
department's intention to submit an obligor's name to the
appropriate board as a licensee who is not in compliance with an
order of support in the same manner as a notice is served in
connection with the revocation of a motor vehicle license under
the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 19-A, section 2202, subsection
2.

 
7. It provides for the administrative establishment of a
child support debt for a time period not specifically addressed
by an existing court order.

 
8. It clarifies the permissible evidence at the
administrative appeal of a decision establishing or modifying a
child support order.

 
9. It requires that an order to withhold and deliver issued
by an out-of-state child support agency or court be honored by a
financial institution.


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