Family Code section 4722 Your Family Is In Good Hands

California Family Code

Family Code section 4722

CHAPTER 5. Civil Penalty for Child Support Delinquency [4720 - 4733]

( Chapter 5 enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. )

4722.

(a) Any person with a court order for child support, the payments on which are more than 30 days in arrears, may file and then serve a notice of delinquency, as described in this chapter.

(b) Except as provided in Section 4726, and subject to Section 4727, any amount of child support specified in a notice of delinquency that remains unpaid for more than 30 days after the notice of delinquency has been filed and served shall incur a penalty of 6 percent of the delinquent payment for each month that it remains unpaid, up to a maximum of 72 percent of the unpaid balance due.

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