CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Enforcement
......Support Orders
.........Arrearages
............Interest on Arrearages
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  • Past due support accrues interest at 10% simple interest per annum.
  • Interest accrues on each payment from date each payment due.
  • Date interest ceases to accrue on judgment.
    Code Civ. Proc. §685.030.
  • Interest may be abated if the activated service member modified support order upon activation to reflect the change in income due to the activation.
  • Crediting of payments made on support arrearages.
  • Federal court properly required F to pay interest on past-due Georgia c/s payments under CSRA.
  • H could not omit accrued interest from support arrearages; FC 155 amendment applies retroactively because it merely clarified existing law plainly set forth in CCP §685.010: Money judgment continues to accrue interest until satisfied.
  • Statutory interest accrues from date each unpaid c/s payment originally due; interest not stayed by trial ct. order that erroneously suspended them.
  • Order relieving interest on the arrearages Husband owed was reversible error; Legislature called upon to modify law.
  • $9,000 support obligation order payable at $15/mo. was an installment judgment—in absence of express provision to contrary—County couldn't assess postjudgment interest on entire amount.
  • DA not required to give notice of accrued interest on child support arrearage as interest accrues as matter of law.
  • W/out express provision in judgment, County could not assess postjudgment interest on entire amount of installment judgment for AFDC reimbursement.
  • Court exceeded jurisdiction in reducing child support arrearages and statutory interest.
  • Interest at legal rate is mandatory on child support arrearages.
  • All money judgments draw interest; trial ct. reversed for failing to order interest on child support arrearages.
  • W’s former attorneys entitled to post-judgment interest on fee order—H offered to pay, but did not pay due to W’s objections.