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House Judiciary panel debates where unpaid child support should fall in estate claims
Summary
Lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee argued over an amendment to place unpaid child support on a prioritized list of estate claims without moving it ahead of certain other creditors; the committee paused the bill pending further information about federal law and state practice.
The House Judiciary Committee debated whether unpaid child support should be explicitly listed among prioritized estate claims and, if so, where it should be placed in the order of payment.
Committee members spent much of a voting-session item discussing an amendment offered by Delegate Moon that would add unpaid child support to the statutory list of priority claims but would not put it ahead of wages owed to caregivers, taxes or other creditors. "The amendment would simply add the child support into the list of claims, but not jump it ahead of everything else the way we did," Delegate Moon said during the discussion.
The measure grew contentious as members…
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