4570. (a) Upon the application of the child support obligee stating that the support payment is 10 or more days late, the court shall immediately order disbursement of funds from the account established pursuant to this chapter solely for the purpose of providing the amount of child support then in arrears.(b) Funds so disbursed shall be used exclusively for the support, maintenance, and education of the child or children subject to the child support order.(c) The court shall also order the account to be replenished by the child support obligor in the same amounts as are expended from the account to pay the amount of child support which the child support obligor has failed to pay the child support obligee in a timely manner.(Enacted by Stats. 1992, Ch. 162, Sec. 10. Operative January 1, 1994.)
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