Content of Support Orders

Content of Support Orders. (a) All support orders shall provide for income withholding, unless a written agreement is reached between and signed by both parties providing for an alternative arrangement, approved and entered into the record by the tribunal, which ensure payment of support. In the case that an alternative arrangement is approved, the order for support shall provide that an income withholding notice is to be prepared and served only if the obligor becomes delinquent in paying the order for support; (b) All support orders shall provide for medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payments or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor’s employment. If the obligor is eligible for family insurance coverage, the employer and the provider of health care coverage shall permit the employee to enroll, under the coverage, any child who is eligible for such coverage without regard to any enrollment season restrictions. If the employee is enrolled in a family health care plan but fails to make application to obtain coverage of a child, the employer and the provider of health care coverage shall enroll such child under the coverage upon application by such child’s other parent, or upon receipt of the national medical support notice from a public agency. (c) All support orders shall contain a cost-sharing statement for un-reimbursed medical expenses. Source: PL 14-34, § 6; redesignated by PL 20-22 § 5 (Oct. 6, 2017). In codifying PL 20-22, the Commission renumbered 8 CMC § 1575 pursuant to 1 CMC § 3806(a).