CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Delinquency Matters
......Disposition
.........Removal From Home
............Parental Cost of Support
 10 Cards On This Topic:
  • Parents liable for costs of support while minor incarcerated.
  • Parents may be liable for costs of minor’s support if they fail to take delivery of child who has been in custody of probation department.
  • Parents who fail to accept delivery of minor held in temporary custody may be liable for support.
  • Mother's debt to county arising from son's involuntary juvenile detention is not a "domestic support obligation" excepted from discharge in bankruptcy.
  • F not excused from paying support for M placed in foster care because he molested F's minor daughters—W&I 903(e) exception applies only where crime is against the person liable for support.
  • Since order to reimburse county for costs of M's care and maintenance in DJJ required parents to pay, and imposed no burden on M, he had no standing to challenge order on appeal.
  • Parents must reimburse costs of supporting son while confined as W&IC §602 ward, but not costs of incarceration, treatment, supervision, and rehab.
  • Parents cannot be ordered to pay committed minor’s medical expenses or support, once he turns 18.
  • Debt father owed to County for costs of juvenile hall housing of W&IC §602 minor is dischargeable under chapter 7.
  • Parents properly assessed for reimbursement of AFDC-FC paid to foster home on son’s behalf. No portion of amount ordered was for impermissible items.


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