N.D. Cent. Code § 14-09-08.18

Current through 2024 Legislative Session
Section 14-09-08.18 - Health insurance reimbursements received by but not owed to obligor to be paid over - Finding of contempt - Treatment as delinquent child support
1. A payment for services rendered by a medical provider to an obligor's dependent which is directed to the obligor in the form of reimbursements from health insurance must be paid to the medical provider, custodial parent, or child support agency when the reimbursement is not owed to the obligor.
2. Any child support order that requires an obligor to provide health insurance is deemed to include the requirements of this section. An obligor retaining insurance reimbursement not owed to the obligor may be found in contempt of a child support order that requires the obligor to provide health insurance.
3. Any insurance reimbursement received by the obligor, but not owed to the obligor, may be treated as delinquent child support thirty days after receipt by the obligor if not sooner paid to the medical provider, custodial parent, or child support agency, as their interests may appear, and is subject to all remedies available under this code for the collection of delinquent child support.

N.D.C.C. § 14-09-08.18