H. B. 2123

(By Delegate Webb)
[Introduced February 14, 2001; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]

A BILL to amend and reenact section twenty-two, article one-a, chapter forty-eight-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to enforcement of family obligations; and including within the definition of obligee a child, after the child's eighteenth birthday and prior to the child's twenty-first birthday, with respect to whom there is an outstanding amount of unpaid accrued support.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section twenty-two, article one-a, chapter forty-eight-a of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1A. DEFINITIONS.
§48A-1A-22. Obligee.
"Obligee" means:
(1) An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order has been issued or a judgment determining parentage has been rendered;
(2) A state or political subdivision to which the rights under a duty of support or support order have been assigned or which has independent claims based on financial assistance provided to an individual obligee; or
(3) An individual seeking a judgment determining parentage of the individual's child; or
(4) A child in his or her own right at any time after the child's eighteenth birthday and prior to the child's twenty-first birthday, with respect to whom there is an outstanding amount of unpaid accrued support.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow a child, after the child's eighteenth birthday and prior to the child's twenty-first birthday, to seek unpaid accrued child support.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.