Public Act 102-0541
 
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    AN ACT concerning civil law.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Public Aid Code is amended by
changing Sections 10-1, 10-2, and 10-17 and by adding Section
10-17.05 as follows:
 
    (305 ILCS 5/10-1)  (from Ch. 23, par. 10-1)
    Sec. 10-1. Declaration of Public Policy - Persons Eligible
for Child Support Enforcement Services - Fees for
Non-Applicants and Non-Recipients.) It is the intent of this
Code that the financial aid and social welfare services herein
provided supplement rather than supplant the primary and
continuing obligation of the family unit for self-support to
the fullest extent permitted by the resources available to it.
This primary and continuing obligation applies whether the
family unit of parents and children or of husband and wife
remains intact and resides in a common household or whether
the unit has been broken by absence of one or more members of
the unit. The obligation of the family unit is particularly
applicable when a member is in necessitous circumstances and
lacks the means of a livelihood compatible with health and
well-being.
    It is the purpose of this Article to provide for locating
an absent parent or spouse, for determining his financial
circumstances, and for enforcing his legal obligation of
support, if he is able to furnish support, in whole or in part.
The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall give
priority to establishing, enforcing and collecting the current
support obligation, and then to past due support owed to the
family unit, except with respect to collections effected
through the intercept programs provided for in this Article.
The establishment or enforcement actions provided in this
Article do not require a previous court order for
custody/allocation of parental responsibilities.
    The child support enforcement services provided hereunder
shall be furnished dependents of an absent parent or spouse
who are applicants for or recipients of financial aid under
this Code. It is not, however, a condition of eligibility for
financial aid that there be no responsible relatives who are
reasonably able to provide support. Nor, except as provided in
Sections 4-1.7 and 10-8, shall the existence of such relatives
or their payment of support contributions disqualify a needy
person for financial aid.
    By accepting financial aid under this Code, a spouse or a
parent or other person having physical or legal custody of a
child shall be deemed to have made assignment to the Illinois
Department for aid under Articles III, IV, V and VII or to a
local governmental unit for aid under Article VI of any and all
rights, title, and interest in any support obligation,
including statutory interest thereon, up to the amount of
financial aid provided. The rights to support assigned to the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services (formerly
Illinois Department of Public Aid) or local governmental unit
shall constitute an obligation owed the State or local
governmental unit by the person who is responsible for
providing the support, and shall be collectible under all
applicable processes.
    The Department of Healthcare and Family Services shall
also furnish the child support enforcement services
established under this Article in behalf of persons who are
not applicants for or recipients of financial aid under this
Code in accordance with the requirements of Title IV, Part D of
the Social Security Act. The Department may establish a
schedule of reasonable fees, to be paid for the services
provided and may deduct a collection fee, not to exceed 10% of
the amount collected, from such collection. The Department of
Healthcare and Family Services shall cause to be published and
distributed publications reasonably calculated to inform the
public that individuals who are not recipients of or
applicants for public aid under this Code are eligible for the
child support enforcement services under this Article X. Such
publications shall set forth an explanation, in plain
language, that the child support enforcement services program
is independent of any public aid program under the Code and
that the receiving of child support enforcement services in no
way implies that the person receiving such services is
receiving public aid.
(Source: P.A. 94-90, eff. 1-1-06; 95-331, eff. 8-21-07.)
 
    (305 ILCS 5/10-2)  (from Ch. 23, par. 10-2)
    Sec. 10-2. Extent of Liability. A husband is liable for
the support of his wife and a wife for the support of her
husband. Unless the child is otherwise emancipated, the
parents are severally liable for the support of any child
under age 18, and for any child aged 18 who is attending high
school, until that child graduates from high school, or
attains the age of 19, whichever is earlier. The term "child"
includes a child born out of wedlock, or legally adopted
child.
    The liability for the support of a child provided for in
this Article does not require a previous court order for
custody and is in conjunction with the guidelines set forth in
Section 505 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
Marriage Act, as provided for in Section 10-10 of this
Article. The obligation to support contained in this Article
is concurrent to any other appropriate State law.
    This Article does not create, enlarge, abrogate, or
diminish parental rights or duties under other laws of this
State, including the common law.
    An action to establish or enforce a support obligation,
under this or any other Act providing for the support of a
child, may be brought subsequent to an adjudication dismissing
that action based on any of the following reasons: (1) no duty
of support exists under this Article because this Article
requires a previous court order for custody/allocation of
parental responsibilities (as no such requirement exists under
this Act); (2) there is no common law duty of support (as a
common law duty of support is recognized as a valid basis for
child support); or (3) there is no duty of support under the
Illinois Parentage Act of 2015 because a judgment of paternity
results in a de facto custody/allocation of parental
responsibilities order (as this ignores the cumulative nature
of the Act and the plain language of the statute permitting an
explicit reservation of the issue. The Illinois Parentage Act
of 2015 will be clarified regarding a de facto
custody/allocation of parental responsibilities order as it
relates to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act).
    In addition to the primary obligation of support imposed
upon responsible relatives, such relatives, if individually or
together in any combination they have sufficient income or
other resources to support a needy person, in whole or in part,
shall be liable for any financial aid extended under this Code
to a person for whose support they are responsible, including
amounts expended for funeral and burial costs.
(Source: P.A. 92-876, eff. 6-1-03.)
 
    (305 ILCS 5/10-17)  (from Ch. 23, par. 10-17)
    Sec. 10-17. Other Actions and Remedies for Support. The
procedures, actions, and remedies provided in this Article
shall in no way be exclusive, but shall be available in
addition to other actions and remedies of support, including,
but not by way of limitation, the remedies provided in (a) the
Illinois Parentage Act of 2015; (b) (blank); the "Non-Support
of Spouse and Children Act", approved June 24, 1915, as
amended; (b-5) the Non-Support Punishment Act; and (c)
(blank); (d) the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
Act; (e) the Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and
Enforcement Act; (f) the Uniform Interstate Family Support
Act; and (g) the common law. the "Revised Uniform Reciprocal
Enforcement of Support Act", approved August 28, 1969, as
amended.
    This Article does not create, enlarge, abrogate, or
diminish parental rights or duties under other laws of this
State, including the common law.
(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16.)
 
    (305 ILCS 5/10-17.05 new)
    Sec. 10-17.05. Actions and remedies for support; other
laws. Notwithstanding any other State or local law to the
contrary, actions and remedies under this Article, the Uniform
Interstate Family Support Act, or other State laws shall be
cumulative and used in conjunction with one another, as
appropriate. Actions and remedies under the Uniform Interstate
Family Support Act shall not require a custody or visitation
determination as a prerequisite to a determination of a
support obligation. If a custody or visitation determination
is not permitted under the Uniform Interstate Family Support
Act, the determination may be made under another appropriate
State law if the court has authority to make the decision under
the appropriate law.
 
    Section 10. The Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 510 and by adding
Sections 518 and 519 as follows:
 
    (750 ILCS 5/510)  (from Ch. 40, par. 510)
    Sec. 510. Modification and termination of provisions for
maintenance, support, educational expenses, and property
disposition.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (f) of
Section 502 and in subsection (b), clause (3) of Section
505.2, the provisions of any judgment respecting maintenance
or support may be modified only as to installments accruing
subsequent to due notice by the moving party of the filing of
the motion for modification. An order for child support may be
modified as follows:
        (1) upon a showing of a substantial change in
    circumstances; and
        (2) without the necessity of showing a substantial
    change in circumstances, as follows:
            (A) upon a showing of an inconsistency of at least
        20%, but no less than $10 per month, between the amount
        of the existing order and the amount of child support
        that results from application of the guidelines
        specified in Section 505 of this Act unless the
        inconsistency is due to the fact that the amount of the
        existing order resulted from a deviation from the
        guideline amount and there has not been a change in the
        circumstances that resulted in that deviation; or
            (B) upon a showing of a need to provide for the
        health care needs of the child under the order through
        health insurance or other means. In no event shall the
        eligibility for or receipt of medical assistance be
        considered to meet the need to provide for the child's
        health care needs.
    The provisions of subparagraph (a)(2)(A) shall apply only
in cases in which a party is receiving child support
enforcement services from the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services under Article X of the Illinois Public Aid
Code, and only when at least 36 months have elapsed since the
order for child support was entered or last modified.
    The court may grant a petition for modification that seeks
to apply the changes made to subsection (a) of Section 505 by
Public Act 99-764 to an order entered before the effective
date of Public Act 99-764 only upon a finding of a substantial
change in circumstances that warrants application of the
changes. The enactment of Public Act 99-764 itself does not
constitute a substantial change in circumstances warranting a
modification.
    (a-5) An order for maintenance may be modified or
terminated only upon a showing of a substantial change in
circumstances. The court may grant a petition for modification
that seeks to apply the changes made to Section 504 by this
amendatory Act of the 100th General Assembly to an order
entered before the effective date of this amendatory Act of
the 100th General Assembly only upon a finding of a
substantial change in circumstances that warrants application
of the changes. The enactment of this amendatory Act of the
100th General Assembly itself does not constitute a
substantial change in circumstances warranting a modification.
In all such proceedings, as well as in proceedings in which
maintenance is being reviewed, the court shall consider the
applicable factors set forth in subsection (a) of Section 504
and the following factors:
        (1) any change in the employment status of either
    party and whether the change has been made in good faith;
        (2) the efforts, if any, made by the party receiving
    maintenance to become self-supporting, and the
    reasonableness of the efforts where they are appropriate;
        (3) any impairment of the present and future earning
    capacity of either party;
        (4) the tax consequences of the maintenance payments
    upon the respective economic circumstances of the parties;
        (5) the duration of the maintenance payments
    previously paid (and remaining to be paid) relative to the
    length of the marriage;
        (6) the property, including retirement benefits,
    awarded to each party under the judgment of dissolution of
    marriage, judgment of legal separation, or judgment of
    declaration of invalidity of marriage and the present
    status of the property;
        (7) the increase or decrease in each party's income
    since the prior judgment or order from which a review,
    modification, or termination is being sought;
        (8) the property acquired and currently owned by each
    party after the entry of the judgment of dissolution of
    marriage, judgment of legal separation, or judgment of
    declaration of invalidity of marriage; and
        (9) any other factor that the court expressly finds to
    be just and equitable.
    (a-6) (Blank).
    (b) The provisions as to property disposition may not be
revoked or modified, unless the court finds the existence of
conditions that justify the reopening of a judgment under the
laws of this State.
    (c) Unless otherwise agreed by the parties in a written
agreement set forth in the judgment or otherwise approved by
the court, the obligation to pay future maintenance is
terminated upon the death of either party, or the remarriage
of the party receiving maintenance, or if the party receiving
maintenance cohabits with another person on a resident,
continuing conjugal basis. An obligor's obligation to pay
maintenance or unallocated maintenance terminates by operation
of law on the date the obligee remarries or the date the court
finds cohabitation began. The obligor is entitled to
reimbursement for all maintenance paid from that date forward.
Any termination of an obligation for maintenance as a result
of the death of the obligor, however, shall be inapplicable to
any right of the other party or such other party's designee to
receive a death benefit under such insurance on the obligor's
life. An obligee must advise the obligor of his or her
intention to marry at least 30 days before the remarriage,
unless the decision is made within this time period. In that
event, he or she must notify the obligor within 72 hours of
getting married.
    (c-5) In an adjudicated case, the court shall make
specific factual findings as to the reason for the
modification as well as the amount, nature, and duration of
the modified maintenance award.
    (d) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, or as agreed in
writing or expressly provided in the judgment, provisions for
the support of a child are terminated by emancipation of the
child, or if the child has attained the age of 18 and is still
attending high school, provisions for the support of the child
are terminated upon the date that the child graduates from
high school or the date the child attains the age of 19,
whichever is earlier, but not by the death of a parent
obligated to support or educate the child. An existing
obligation to pay for support or educational expenses, or
both, is not terminated by the death of a parent. When a parent
obligated to pay support or educational expenses, or both,
dies, the amount of support or educational expenses, or both,
may be enforced, modified, revoked or commuted to a lump sum
payment, as equity may require, and that determination may be
provided for at the time of the dissolution of the marriage or
thereafter.
    (e) The right to petition for support or educational
expenses, or both, under Sections 505, 513, and 513.5 is not
extinguished by the death of a parent. Upon a petition filed
before or after a parent's death, the court may award sums of
money out of the decedent's estate for the child's support or
educational expenses, or both, as equity may require. The time
within which a claim may be filed against the estate of a
decedent under Sections 505 and 513 and subsection (d) and
this subsection shall be governed by the provisions of the
Probate Act of 1975, as a barrable, noncontingent claim.
    (f) A petition to modify or terminate child support or the
allocation of parental responsibilities, including parenting
time, shall not delay any child support enforcement litigation
or supplementary proceeding on behalf of the obligee,
including, but not limited to, a petition for a rule to show
cause, for non-wage garnishment, or for a restraining order.
(Source: P.A. 99-90, eff. 1-1-16; 99-764, eff. 7-1-17; 100-15,
eff. 7-1-17; 100-201, eff. 8-18-17; 100-923, eff. 1-1-19.)
 
    (750 ILCS 5/518 new)
    Sec. 518. Other actions and remedies for support. The
procedures, actions, and remedies provided in this Act shall
in no way be exclusive, but shall be available in addition to
other actions and remedies of support, including, but not
limited to, the remedies provided in: (a) the Illinois
Parentage Act of 2015; (b) the Non-Support Punishment Act; (c)
the Illinois Public Aid Code; (d) the Uniform Child-Custody
Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act; (e) the Uniform Interstate
Family Support Act; and (f) the common law.
    This Act does not create, enlarge, abrogate, or diminish
parental rights or duties under other laws of this State,
including the common law.
 
    (750 ILCS 5/519 new)
    Sec. 519. Actions and remedies for support; other laws.
Notwithstanding any other State or local law to the contrary,
actions and remedies under this Act, the Uniform Interstate
Family Support Act, or other State laws shall be cumulative
and used in conjunction with one another, as appropriate.
Actions and remedies under the Uniform Interstate Family
Support Act shall not require a custody or visitation
determination as a prerequisite to a determination of a
support obligation. If a custody or visitation determination
is not permitted under the Uniform Interstate Family Support
Act, the determination may be made under another appropriate
State law if the court has authority to make the decision under
the appropriate law.
 
    Section 15. The Illinois Parentage Act of 2015 is amended
by changing Section 802 and by adding Sections 906 and 907 as
follows:
 
    (750 ILCS 46/802)
    Sec. 802. Judgment.
    (a) The court shall issue an order adjudicating whether a
person alleged or claiming to be the parent is the parent of
the child. An order adjudicating parentage must identify the
child by name and date of birth.
    The court may assess filing fees, reasonable attorney's
fees, fees for genetic testing, other costs, necessary travel
expenses, and other reasonable expenses incurred in a
proceeding under this Act. The court may award attorney's
fees, which may be paid directly to the attorney, who may
enforce the order in the attorney's own name. The court may not
assess fees, costs, or expenses against the
support-enforcement agency of this State or another state,
except as provided by other law.
    The judgment shall contain or explicitly reserve
provisions concerning any duty and amount of child support and
may contain or explicitly reserve provisions concerning the
allocation of parental responsibilities or guardianship of the
child, parenting time privileges with the child, and the
furnishing of bond or other security for the payment of the
judgment, which the court shall determine in accordance with
the relevant factors set forth in the Illinois Marriage and
Dissolution of Marriage Act and any other applicable law of
this State, to guide the court in a finding in the best
interests of the child. In determining the allocation of
parental responsibilities, relocation, parenting time,
parenting time interference, support for a non-minor disabled
child, educational expenses for a non-minor child, and related
post-judgment issues, the court shall apply the relevant
standards of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage
Act. Specifically, in determining the amount of a child
support award, the court shall use the guidelines and
standards set forth in subsection (a) of Section 505 and in
Section 505.2 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
Marriage Act. The court shall order all child support
payments, determined in accordance with such guidelines, to
commence with the date summons is served. The level of current
periodic support payments shall not be reduced because of
payments set for the period prior to the date of entry of the
support order.
    (b) In an action brought within 2 years after a child's
birth, the judgment or order may direct either parent to pay
the reasonable expenses incurred by either parent or the
Department of Healthcare and Family Services related to the
mother's pregnancy and the delivery of the child.
    (c) In the absence of an explicit order or judgment for the
allocation of parental responsibilities, to the extent the
court has authority under the Uniform Child-Custody
Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act or any other appropriate
State law, the establishment of a child support obligation or
the allocation of parenting time to one parent shall be
construed as an order or judgment allocating all parental
responsibilities to the other parent. If the parentage order
or judgment contains no such provisions, all parental
responsibilities shall be presumed to be allocated to the
mother; however, the presumption shall not apply if the child
has resided primarily with the other parent for at least 6
months prior to the date that the mother seeks to enforce the
order or judgment of parentage.
    (c-5) Notwithstanding the limitations regarding the
establishment of custody under the Uniform Interstate Family
Support Act, that Act is not exclusive, and custody/allocation
of parental responsibilities may be determined concurrently
under other appropriate State laws, where this determination
may be validly made.
    (d) The court, if necessary to protect and promote the
best interests of the child, may set aside a portion of the
separately held estates of the parties in a separate fund or
trust for the support, education, physical and mental health,
and general welfare of a minor or mentally or physically
disabled child of the parties.
    (e) The court may order child support payments to be made
for a period prior to the commencement of the action. In
determining whether and to what extent the payments shall be
made for the prior period, the court shall consider all
relevant facts, including but not limited to:
        (1) The factors for determining the amount of support
    specified in the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of
    Marriage Act.
        (2) The prior knowledge of the person obligated to pay
    support of the fact and circumstances of the child's
    birth.
        (3) The father's prior willingness or refusal to help
    raise or support the child.
        (4) The extent to which the mother or the public
    agency bringing the action previously informed the person
    obligated to pay support of the child's needs or attempted
    to seek or require the help of the person obligated to pay
    support in raising or supporting the child.
        (5) The reasons the mother or the public agency did
    not file the action earlier.
        (6) The extent to which the person obligated to pay
    support would be prejudiced by the delay in bringing the
    action.
    For purposes of determining the amount of child support to
be paid for the period before the date the order for current
child support is entered, there is a rebuttable presumption
that the net income of the person obligated to pay support for
the prior period was the same as the net income of the person
obligated to pay support at the time the order for current
child support is entered.
    If (i) the person obligated to pay support was properly
served with a request for discovery of financial information
relating to the ability to provide child support of the person
obligated to pay support; (ii) the person obligated to pay
support failed to comply with the request, despite having been
ordered to do so by the court; and (iii) the person obligated
to pay support is not present at the hearing to determine
support despite having received proper notice, then any
relevant financial information concerning the ability to
provide child support of the person obligated to pay support
that was obtained pursuant to subpoena and proper notice shall
be admitted into evidence without the need to establish any
further foundation for its admission.
    (f) A new or existing support order entered by the court
under this Section shall be deemed to be a series of judgments
against the person obligated to pay support thereunder, each
judgment to be in the amount of each payment or installment of
support and each judgment to be deemed entered as of the date
the corresponding payment or installment becomes due under the
terms of the support order. Each judgment shall have the full
force, effect, and attributes of any other judgment of this
State, including the ability to be enforced. A judgment under
this Section is subject to modification or termination only in
accordance with Section 510 of the Illinois Marriage and
Dissolution of Marriage Act. Notwithstanding any State or
local law to the contrary, a lien arises by operation of law
against the real and personal property of the noncustodial
parent for each installment of overdue support owed by the
noncustodial parent.
    (g) If the judgment or order of the court is at variance
with the child's birth certificate, the court shall order that
a new birth certificate be issued under the Vital Records Act.
    (h) On the request of both parents, the court shall order a
change in the child's name.
    (i) After hearing evidence, the court may stay payment of
support during the period of the father's minority or period
of disability.
    (j) If, upon a showing of proper service, the father fails
to appear in court or otherwise appear as provided by law, the
court may proceed to hear the cause upon testimony of the
mother or other parties taken in open court and shall enter a
judgment by default. The court may reserve any order as to the
amount of child support until the father has received notice,
by regular mail, of a hearing on the matter.
    (k) An order for support, when entered or modified, shall
include a provision requiring the non-custodial parent to
notify the court and, in cases in which a party is receiving
child support enforcement services under Article X of the
Illinois Public Aid Code, the Department of Healthcare and
Family Services, within 7 days: (i) of the name and address of
any new employer of the non-custodial parent; (ii) whether the
non-custodial parent has access to health insurance coverage
through the employer or other group coverage and, if so, of the
policy name and number and the names of adults and initials of
minors covered under the policy; and (iii) of any new
residential or mailing address or telephone number of the
non-custodial parent. In a subsequent action to enforce a
support order, upon a sufficient showing that a diligent
effort has been made to ascertain the location of the
non-custodial parent, service of process or provision of
notice necessary in the case may be made at the last known
address of the non-custodial parent in any manner expressly
provided by this Act or the Code of Civil Procedure, and shall
be sufficient for purposes of due process.
    (l) An order for support shall include a date on which the
current support obligation terminates. The termination date
shall be no earlier than the date on which the child covered by
the order will attain the age of 18. However, if the child will
not graduate from high school until after attaining the age of
18, then the termination date shall be no earlier than the
earlier of the date on which the child's high school
graduation will occur or the date on which the child will
attain the age of 19. The order for support shall state that
the termination date does not apply to any arrearage that may
remain unpaid on that date. Nothing in this subsection shall
be construed to prevent the court from modifying the order or
terminating the order in the event the child is otherwise
emancipated.
    (m) If there is an unpaid arrearage or delinquency (as
those terms are defined in the Income Withholding for Support
Act) equal to at least one month's support obligation on the
termination date stated in the order for support or, if there
is no termination date stated in the order, on the date the
child attains the age of majority or is otherwise emancipated,
the periodic amount required to be paid for current support of
that child immediately prior to that date shall automatically
continue to be an obligation, not as current support but as
periodic payment toward satisfaction of the unpaid arrearage
or delinquency. The periodic payment shall be in addition to
any periodic payment previously required for satisfaction of
the arrearage or delinquency. The total periodic amount to be
paid toward satisfaction of the arrearage or delinquency may
be enforced and collected by any method provided by law for
enforcement and collection of child support, including but not
limited to income withholding under the Income Withholding for
Support Act. Each order for support entered or modified must
contain a statement notifying the parties of the requirements
of this subsection. Failure to include the statement in the
order for support does not affect the validity of the order or
the operation of the provisions of this subsection with regard
to the order. This subsection shall not be construed to
prevent or affect the establishment or modification of an
order for support of a minor child or the establishment or
modification of an order for support of a non-minor child or
educational expenses under Section 513 of the Illinois
Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.
    (n) An order entered under this Section shall include a
provision requiring the obligor to report to the obligee and
to the clerk of court within 7 days each time the obligor
obtains new employment, and each time the obligor's employment
is terminated for any reason. The report shall be in writing
and shall, in the case of new employment, include the name and
address of the new employer. Failure to report new employment
or the termination of current employment, if coupled with
nonpayment of support for a period in excess of 60 days, is
indirect criminal contempt. For an obligor arrested for
failure to report new employment, bond shall be set in the
amount of the child support that should have been paid during
the period of unreported employment. An order entered under
this Section shall also include a provision requiring the
obligor and obligee parents to advise each other of a change in
residence within 5 days of the change except when the court
finds that the physical, mental, or emotional health of a
party or that of a minor child, or both, would be seriously
endangered by disclosure of the party's address.
(Source: P.A. 99-85, eff. 1-1-16; 99-769, eff. 1-1-17.)
 
    (750 ILCS 46/906 new)
    Sec. 906. Other actions and remedies for support. The
procedures, actions, and remedies provided in this Act shall
in no way be exclusive, but shall be available in addition to
other actions and remedies of support, including, but not
limited to, the remedies provided in: (a) the Illinois
Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act; (b) the Non-Support
Punishment Act; (c) the Illinois Public Aid Code; (d) the
Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act; (e)
the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; and (f) the common
law.
    This Act does not create, enlarge, abrogate, or diminish
parental rights or duties under other laws of this State,
including the common law.
 
    (750 ILCS 46/907 new)
    Sec. 907. Actions and remedies for support; other laws.
Notwithstanding any other State or local law to the contrary,
actions and remedies under this Act, the Uniform Interstate
Family Support Act, or other State laws shall be cumulative
and used in conjunction with one another, as appropriate.
Actions and remedies under the Uniform Interstate Family
Support Act shall not require a custody or visitation
determination as a prerequisite to a determination of a
support obligation. If a custody or visitation determination
is not permitted under the Uniform Interstate Family Support
Act, the determination may be made under another appropriate
State law if the court has authority to make the decision under
the appropriate law.
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.