Montana Code 40-5-911. Monitor payments — enforcement
40-5-911. 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:
Terms Used In Montana Code 40-5-911
- Department: means the department of public health and human services provided for in 2-15-2201. See Montana Code 40-5-901
- Obligor: means a person who is obligated to pay support under a support order. See Montana Code 40-5-901
- Payor: means :
(a)an employer or person engaged in a trade or business in this state who engages an employee for compensation; or
(b)when used in context with income withholding, means a person, firm, corporation, association, employer, trustee, political subdivision, state agency, or agent paying income to an obligor on a periodic basis. See Montana Code 40-5-901
(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.