Child Support
Clip: Season 2 Episode 198 | 1m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Senate passes bill making child support retroactive to cover nine months prior to birth.
Senate passes bill making child support retroactive to cover nine months prior to birth.
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Child Support
Clip: Season 2 Episode 198 | 1m 8sVideo has Closed Captions
Senate passes bill making child support retroactive to cover nine months prior to birth.
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Today, the full Senate passed Senate Bill 110.
It makes child support retroactive to cover the nine months prior to a child's birth, so long as the child support order is issued within the first year after the child is born.
The bill is sponsored by State Senator Whitney Westerville, who was expecting triplets.
And if I may offer some personal testimony, my wife being pregnant right now, thankfully, she's not leaving me yet.
There are costs involved.
We've got health insurance and I've got a stack of bills with co-pays and premiums and so forth on my desk right now that I'll be paying tonight electronically.
So I know that there are costs involved, and that's before we even get to buying three car seats and three of everything else between now and when these babies show up.
That obligation exists.
And regardless of what anybody else's philosophical position is, the order of child support should be able to reflect that.
Senate Bill 110 passed by a vote of 36 to 2 and is now headed to the House for consideration there.
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