Cal. Fam. Code § 17311.7
Director of Child Support Services
Redline — January 1, 2011 → current.View current text →
Current — January 1, 2019
As of January 1, 2011
(a) Upon the transfer of collection and disbursement activities from each county to the State Disbursement Unit, the auditor and controller of each county shall perform closeout activities as directed by the Department of Child Support Services to ensure accounting for all collections, obligations, and payments. All child support collections remaining undisbursed and interest earned on these funds shall be transferred to the Department of Child Support Services for deposit in the Child Support Payment Trust Fund. The local child support agency director and auditor and controller shall perform these activities based on guidelines provided by the department and shall certify the results of these activities in a report submitted to the department within one year of transfer of collection and distribution functions to the state.
(b) The department may contract for the audit of each county report submitted under subdivision (a). Each audit shall be completed within one year after the receipt of the report from the county.
(a) Any payment required to be made to a family through the State Disbursement Unit shall be made directly to the obligee parent in the child support order requiring the payment, the conservator or guardian of the obligee parent, a special needs trust for the benefit of the obligee parent, the guardian of the person and the estate of the child subject to the order, any caregiver relative having custody or responsibility for the child, pursuant to a written record, or an alternate caregiver to whom the obligee under the child support order directs, in a written record, that payments be made.
(b) For purposes of this section, “alternate caregiver” means a nonrelative caregiver who is designated in writing by the obligee parent to take care of the child for a limited time.
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