(1) By applying for Title IV-D services or accepting public assistance for or on behalf of a needy dependent child, the recipient shall be deemed to have made an assignment to the cabinet of the right to any child support or maintenance owed up to the amount of public assistance paid by the cabinet to the recipient, including amounts which have accrued at the time the assignment is made between October 1,
1997, and September 30, 2000. The cabinet shall be subrogated to the right of the child or the person having custody to collect and receive all child support payments and to initiate any support action existing under the laws of this state.

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 205.720

  • Action: includes all proceedings in any court of this state. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
  • Public assistance: means money grants, assistance in kind, or services to or for the benefit of needy aged, needy blind, needy permanently and totally disabled persons, needy children, or persons with whom a needy child lives or a family containing a combination of these categories, except that the term shall not be construed to permit the granting of financial aid where the purpose of such aid is to obtain an abortion. See Kentucky Statutes 205.010
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(2) The cabinet shall distribute all child support payments and assigned arrearages as required by 42 U.S.C. secs. 651 et seq.
(3) When Title IV-D services on behalf of a dependent child are terminated, current and past due court-ordered or administratively determined child support owed the child shall be payable to the physical custodian of the dependent child for the period of time the dependent child was in the physical custody of that custodian.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 255, sec. 6, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 330, sec. 3, effective July 15, 1994. — Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 277, sec. 2, effective June 17, 1978. — Created 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 343, sec. 4.