Restrictions on hunting and fishing licenses increase child support payments

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Utah Public Radio | ByDuck Thurgood

PublishedOctober 24, 2022 at 2:17 PM MDT

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A man in a field, facing away from the camera and holding two children, as another child runs away from the camera.

Nearly 3,000 hunting and fishing licenses were revoked in 2021 because of past-due child support payments. 494 of those individuals are now compliant with the new law.

A law in Utah denying hunting and fishing licenses to those with past due child support has contributed to an increase of child support payments and compliance in the past year.

H.B. 197Fishing and Hunting Restrictions for Nonpayment of Child Supportwas passed during the 2020 General Session. After it went into effect in 2021, individuals who had over $2500 in unpaid child support for a year were restricted from getting a hunting or fishing license.

According to Liesa Stockdale, director of the Office of Recovery Services (ORS) for Utah, this type of law is meant to catch the attention of non-paying…

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