Does a beneficiary have to be the parent of a child who has failed to comply with a child support order?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Marriage of Utigard, In re, 126 Cal.App.3d 133, 178 Cal.Rptr. 546 (Cal. App. 1981):
Where the purpose of securing the arrearages is reimbursement of a parent for having supported the children, the beneficiary is the parent and not the child. In Di Corpo v. Di Corpo (1948) 33 Cal.2d 195, 200 P.2d 529, the court affirmed the denial of a writ of execution to enforce a child support order for failure of the divorced wife to
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