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Failure of Notice to Public Authority

Quick Facts

If notice is not given, the court will penalize the party whose obligation it was to give notice.

If the court, in a divorce, legal separation, or determination of parentage proceeding, finds before issuing the order for judgment and decree, that notice has not been given to the public authority, the court will set child support according to statute.

In those proceedings in which notice has not been given and in which the public authority determines that the judgment is lower than the child support required by the guidelines, the court will re-determine the support payments ordered so that the support payments comply with the guidelines.