CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Enforcement
......Support Orders
.........Arrearages
............After Majority/10-Year-Old Order
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  • Support order may be enforced by a writ of execution or notice of levy without prior court approval.
  • Parent may recover support arrearages after child becomes an adult.
  • Court will not consider lack of diligence in collection in determining whether to permit collection of older support order.
  • 1966 support judgment not extinguished, and wife not barred from enforcing that extant judgment per Fam. Code §4502; neither lack of diligence nor laches a defense.
  • W can’t enforce time-barred 1963 child support order pursuant to Fam. Code §4502; H detrimentally relied on final order barring W’s collection. (CAVEAT.)
  • If none of children is yet age 23, obligee entitled to recover all child support arrearages, even those more than 10 years old.
  • Statute of limitations not a defense to enforcement of child support arrearages until after child is age 24.


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