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Maine Revised Statutes, Title 19-A, § 2602: Support orders, 1995

The court may add installment-payment orders to support orders or costs, order installments for future obligations, enforce those orders under Title 14, and skip a separate disclosure hearing if it has already determined…

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“The court may add installment-payment orders to support orders or costs, order installments for future obligations, enforce those orders under Title 14, and skip a separate disclosure hearing if it has already determined ability to pay and receipt of non-exempt funds.”

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The court may add installment-payment orders to support orders or costs, order installments for future obligations, enforce those orders under Title 14, and skip a separate disclosure hearing if it has already determined ability to pay and receipt of…

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The court may add installment-payment orders to support orders or costs, order installments for future obligations, enforce those orders under Title 14, and skip a separate disclosure hearing if it has already determined ability to pay and receipt of non-exempt funds.

1. Installment payments. In a support order or costs, the court may include an order to pay specified installment payments as provided under Title 14, sections 3126‑A to 3136. [PL 1999, c. 587, §11 (AMD).] 2. Future obligations. The court may order installment payments for future obligations under the decree. The court may enforce its decree ordering installment payments as provided under Title 14, sections 3126‑A to 3136. In enforcement actions under those sections, the person ordered to pay is deemed a judgment debtor and the person entitled to receive the payments a judgment creditor. [PL 1999, c. 587, §12 (AMD).] 3. Disclosure hearing. The court may make an order under subsection 1 without a separate disclosure hearing, if the court has already determined the person's ability to pay and the person's receipt of money from a source other than a source that is otherwise exempt from trustee process, attachment and execution. [PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. B, §2 (NEW); PL 1995, c. 694, Pt. E, §2 (AFF).]
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