CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Enforcement
......Interest on Judgments
.........Interest on Support Orders
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Past due support accrues interest at the legal rate.

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.