Enforcement of Support Orders

An order awarding child support payments to a custodial parent is good only if either the non-custodial parent respects it or there are appropriate enforcement mechanisms. There are several avenues of relief that a parent can choose, including contempt, contract actions for failure several avenues of relief that a parent can choose, including contempt, contract actions for failure to comply with the terms of an agreement, receiverships, constructive trusts, and other remedies, some of them new as of 1997 and increasingly far-reaching. 750 ILCS 5/505(b). See also 750 ILCS 28/20 (detail of child support enforcement and orders of withholding); 750 ILCS 5/710 (enforcement penalties), 5/713 (body attachments).

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