Illinois HB5172 amends child support laws to adjust calculations for shared physical care, modify support obligations during incarceration, and.
Illinois HB5172 introduces significant changes to child support laws, focusing on shared physical care, incarceration, and new guidelines. It adjusts child support calculations for parents with shared physical care, defining shared care as each parent having 110 or more overnights per year with the child. For shared care situations, the basic child support obligation is multiplied by 1.5. The bill also modifies support obligations for incarcerated parents, presuming they cannot pay support if incarcerated for over 180 days, though this can be rebutted.
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