HB0545 - Tennessee: Child Custody And Support, Children

Companion Bill SB0808. Child Custody and Support - Makes failure of an employer to turn over income for child support withheld from an obligor within required timeframes a breach of fiduciary duty when the employer has been directed to do so by an income assignment order; provides a time in which action for breach of such fiduciary duty must be filed. - Amends TCA Section 36-5-501. Fiscal Summary for *HB0545 / SB0808Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Other Fiscal Impact - Increase Federal Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for *HB0545 / SB0808 This bill classifies failure of any employer to pay income withheld to the appropriate agency for child support collection a breach of a fiduciary duty to the child support obligor, thereby giving the obligor a cause of action to sue the employer for the omission. The statute of limitation [...]

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