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Showalter Blawg – HB 1040


HB1040 – Prohibition on Child Support Abatement During Incarceration

Indiana House Representative Bob Cheatham his introduced HB1040 which seeks to remove from judges the discretion, or rather the obligation, to consider a parents’ actual financial resources while incarcerated when hearing a petition for a child support payment modification. Cheatam seeks to overturn the ruling by the Indiana Supreme Court in Lambert v Lambert (2008). more