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92_HB2301

 
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 1        AN ACT in relation to families.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.  The  Illinois  Marriage  and  Dissolution of
 5    Marriage Act is amended by changing Section 510 as follows:

 6        (750 ILCS 5/510) (from Ch. 40, par. 510)
 7        Sec. 510.  Modification and termination of provisions for
 8    maintenance,  support,  educational  expenses,  and  property
 9    disposition.
10        (a)  Except as otherwise provided  in  paragraph  (f)  of
11    Section  502  and  in  subsection  (d), clause (3) of Section
12    505.2, the provisions of any judgment respecting  maintenance
13    or  support  may be modified only as to installments accruing
14    subsequent to due notice by the moving party of the filing of
15    the motion for modification and, with respect to maintenance,
16    only upon a showing of a substantial change in circumstances.
17    An order for child support may be modified as follows:
18             (1)  upon a  showing  of  a  substantial  change  in
19        circumstances; and
20             (2)  without  the necessity of showing a substantial
21        change in circumstances, as follows:
22                  (A)  upon a showing of an inconsistency  of  at
23             least  20%,  but no less than $10 per month, between
24             the amount of the existing order and the  amount  of
25             child  support  that results from application of the
26             guidelines specified in  Section  505  of  this  Act
27             unless the inconsistency is due to the fact that the
28             amount   of  the  existing  order  resulted  from  a
29             deviation from the guideline amount  and  there  has
30             not been a change in the circumstances that resulted
31             in that deviation; or
 
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 1                  (B)  Upon  a  showing  of a need to provide for
 2             the health care needs of the child under  the  order
 3             through  health  insurance  or  other  means.  In no
 4             event  shall  the  eligibility  for  or  receipt  of
 5             medical assistance be considered to meet the need to
 6             provide for the child's health care needs.
 7        The provisions of subparagraph (a)(2)(A) shall apply only
 8    in cases in which a  party  is  receiving  child  and  spouse
 9    support  services  from the Illinois Department of Public Aid
10    under Article X of the Illinois Public  Aid  Code,  and  only
11    when  at  least  36  months  have elapsed since the order for
12    child support was entered or last modified.
13        (b)  The provisions as to property disposition may not be
14    revoked or modified, unless the court finds the existence  of
15    conditions that justify the reopening of a judgment under the
16    laws of this State.
17        (c)  Unless  otherwise agreed by the parties in a written
18    agreement set forth in the judgment or otherwise approved  by
19    the  court,  the  obligation  to  pay  future  maintenance is
20    terminated upon the death of either party, or the  remarriage
21    of the party receiving maintenance, or if the party receiving
22    maintenance  cohabits  with  another  person  on  a resident,
23    continuing conjugal basis.
24        (d)  Unless otherwise  agreed  in  writing  or  expressly
25    provided in a judgment, provisions for the support of a child
26    are  terminated  by  emancipation  of  the  child,  except as
27    otherwise provided herein, but not by the death of  a  parent
28    obligated  to  support  or  educate  the  child.  An existing
29    obligation to pay for support  or  educational  expenses,  or
30    both,  is  not  terminated  by the death of a parent.  When a
31    parent obligated to pay support or educational  expenses,  or
32    both, dies, the amount of support or educational expenses, or
33    both,  may  be  enforced,  modified, revoked or commuted to a
34    lump  sum  payment,  as  equity   may   require,   and   that
 
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 1    determination  may  be  provided  for  at  the  time  of  the
 2    dissolution of the marriage or thereafter.
 3        (e)  The  right  to  petition  for support or educational
 4    expenses,  or  both,  under  Sections  505  and  513  is  not
 5    extinguished by the death of a parent.  Upon a petition filed
 6    before or after a parent's death, the court may award sums of
 7    money out of the decedent's estate for the child's support or
 8    educational expenses, or both, as equity  may  require.   The
 9    time  within which a claim may be filed against the estate of
10    a decedent under Sections 505 and 513 and subsection (d)  and
11    this  subsection  shall  be governed by the provisions of the
12    Probate Act of 1975, as a barrable, noncontingent claim.
13        (f)  A petition to modify  or  terminate  child  support,
14    custody,  or  visitation  shall  not  delay any child support
15    enforcement litigation or supplementary proceeding on  behalf
16    of the obligee, including, but not limited to, a petition for
17    a  rule  to  show  cause,  for non-wage garnishment, or for a
18    restraining order.
19    (Source: P.A. 87-714; 88-42; 88-307; 88-670, eff. 12-2-94.)

20        Section 99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect  upon
21    becoming law.

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