Title 13, Domestic Relations

§ 505. Priority among dependents. (a) The duties of support specified in §§ 501 through 504 of this title shall be performed according to the following order of priority: (1) Duty to support one’s own minor child; (2) Duty to support a spouse; (3) Duty to support a woman pregnant…

§ 506. Failure to support for just cause. No person shall be required to support another while there is just cause for failing or refusing to do so.59 Del. Laws, c. 567, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1;

§ 507. Jurisdiction in Family Court; termination of Chancery Court jurisdiction. (a) The Family Court of the State shall have exclusive original jurisdiction over all actions arising under this chapter. The Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the construction, reformatio…

§ 508. Jurisdiction in Family Court; enforcement of support orders entered by Superior Court. The Family Court of this State has the power to enforce any support order entered by the Superior Court pursuant to Chapter 15 of this title and to modify or terminate the support obliga…

§ 509. Definitions. Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, words and phrases used in this chapter shall have the same meaning as those defined in § 401(b) of this title. For the purposes of this chapter, the term “business day” means a day on which state o…

§ 511. Commencement of actions; obtaining jurisdiction over respondent. (a) Proceedings may be instituted in accordance with rules adopted by the Court, or upon a petition in which the petitioner alleges that defendant owes petitioner a duty of support and has refused or failed t…

§ 512. Interim order. (a) At any time before trial upon petition of the complainant and upon notice to the defendant, the Court shall conduct a hearing and thereafter may enter such interim order, pending final judgment, as seems just, for the support of any dependent for whom su…

§ 513. Judgment; order of support; other terms. (a) Where the duty of support has been determined to exist, the court may: (1) Order the defendant to pay a certain sum periodically into the Division of Child Support Services or directly to a resident parent, dependent, dependent’…

§ 514. Determination of amount of support. In determining the amount of support due to one to whom the duty of support has been found to be owing, the court, among other things, shall consider: (1) The health, relative economic condition, financial circumstance, income, including…

§ 515. Procedural rights of parties. (a) All parties to a civil action brought pursuant to this chapter shall possess all procedural rights which such parties would have heretofore possessed in an action for support or separate maintenance in the Court of Chancery of the State, i…

§ 516. Violation of support order for spouse or child; proceedings; contempt; assignment of income; employer’s duties. (a) If the Court, after notice to defendant and a hearing on a rule to show cause, concludes that the defendant has violated the terms of an order of support for…

§ 517. Termination of child support. (a) An order of current child support entered by this Court or a court of competent jurisdiction in this State shall terminate by operation of law when all minor children subject to said order have reached 18 years; provided, however, that if …

§ 518. Accounting. A person who receives funds from another person for the support of a child in that person’s care is a fiduciary with respect to such funds and may be ordered by the Court to account for the expenditure and management of such funds on application by any payer of…

§ 519. Child support liens. Repealed by 71 Del. Laws, c. 216, § 160, effective July 25, 1997.

§ 520. Drivers’, professional, occupational and business licenses. Transferred.

§§ 521-524. Desertion or failure to support spouse or child; penalty; probation; terms; procedure; appeal; stay of order of support. Repealed by 70 Del. Laws, c. 448, § 2, effective July 5, 1996.