What does this provision bar others from doing with an advance child support payment, and does it reach the right to receive that payment as well as the payment itself?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In a practice file, read the decision or agreement by which the advance child support payment was granted, any document by which the recipient tried to transfer or pledge the right to receive it, and any seizure notice served by a creditor, since the provision attaches to both the payment and that right.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the provision's three bars together: an advance child support payment, and the right to receive it, may not be assigned, may not be offered as security, and may not be seized, and the provision names no actor, application or finding as a precondition to that protection.
Another reading notes the scope the provision leaves open: it bars only these three acts against this payment and this right, without saying how an assignment or pledge made anyway is treated, or whether other support payments and rights under the Act fall within the same bar.
Your judgment
If a creditor seizes the right to receive the payment, how could the file show that the amount seized was this advance payment and not some other payment?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to name further acts barred, to reach other payments under the Act, or if a court decision sets how an assignment or pledge made against this payment is treated.