Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The legislature of the state
of Idaho finds that a significant number of people who are owed child support
are not paid in accordance with the terms of their child support orders; that
this causes a severe financial hardship upon custodial parents and constitutes
a significant detriment to the rearing and support of minor children whom the
orders intended to support. Further, P.L. 98-378 requires each state to
implement statutorily prescribed procedures to improve the effectiveness of
child support enforcement. Although the department of health and welfare does
not have the authority to establish support orders administratively, the act
as amended in 1988 enables the department to give full faith and credit to all
legally enforceable support orders issued by other states. The collection
remedies required by federal law are enacted in section 7-1203, Idaho Code.

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