Child Support Laws in Illinois
By CosmoOwl12
@CosmoOwl12 (411)
United States
March 2, 2013 11:15am CST
I'm asking this question for a friend who lives in Illinois. I'm in Indiana and I know their child support laws are different. Anyway, my friend Lisa is married to a guy named Cody. Cody has a daughter with a woman named Amber. Lisa heard from someone that if Cody is paying Amber child support and she's not letting him see their daughter, Amber could lose her child support. I was told that this is true in Indiana when I filed for my child support but I think it only applies if you have court ordered visitation (which I don't).
Does anyone know whether or not this is the case in Illinois? We have both been trying to Google search about it, but haven't found too much on the subject.
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3 responses
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
3 Mar 13
I don't live there but I have always been under the impression that you could not prevent court ordered visitation for lack of child support because they are 2 separate issues. You can be taken to court for contempt if you refuse visitation without going through the proper channels and making it legal. I imagine in that case that they could take your child support to pay for the court costs but I don't know that. I really thought it was the same everywhere. What your friend could do is to call the Division of Child support and just ask them. I'm sure also that if she went into the courthouse and asked that someone there could answer her questions.
@CosmoOwl12 (411)
• United States
3 Mar 13
That's true. They never gave me the number for the Division of Child Support (I'm sure I could find it). I had to file for child support at the prosecuting attorney's office and I go through them for everything. I imagine they would know Illinois laws as well as Indiana laws since I'm sure they deal with families who don't live in the same area.
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
2 Mar 13
I no longer live in Illinois, but my child support for my son was ordered there. I went to court and a judge ordered visitation and child support at the same time. I think in that case I could get child support taken away, but with my daughter child support was ordered through child support enforcement and there was NO visitation ordered. Therefore it does not matter that my daughters father never gets to see her. If visitation and child support were both ordered then yeah I am pretty sure she could get her child support taken away for not going by a court order.
@CosmoOwl12 (411)
• United States
2 Mar 13
I believe that Cody and Amber have court ordered visitation and child support but Cody hasn't seen his daughter in almost a year. They live 2-3 hours away but on my papers (even though I'm in Indiana) it says that the non-custodial parent is required to pick the child up at the beginning of visitation and the custodial parent picks the child up at the end.
