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Child-support accounting proposal fails after extended committee debate on burden and courtroom impact
Summary
A measure permitting courts to order an accounting by a child-support payee on a showing of good cause drew lengthy argument over whether it would improve transparency or invite unnecessary litigation; the committee voted the bill down.
A proposal to allow courts to require a custodial parent or payee to account for how court-ordered child-support payments are spent failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee after extended debate.
Representative Jimmy Gazzaway, the House sponsor, told the committee SB561 would permit a court — on its own motion or on a motion from a payer with a showing of good cause — to order an accounting of how child-support funds were used when there is evidence the child’s needs are unmet. “It should be used for the benefit of the…
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