Who must answer an objection to a child-support advance payment disposition, and what decides the rest of that objection procedure?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
The practice file to read here is the objection application, showing the day it reached the head of the Support Management Agency and that it concerns a disposition on the advance payment of child support, plus any notice of the result and any notice of an extension with its stated reason, since the provision's duty turns on each of these.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading places the duty on the head of the Support Management Agency: once an objection against a disposition on the advance payment of child support is received, that head must notify the applicant of the outcome within the period the provision sets from the day of receipt, and only where an unavoidable reason makes this impossible may the period be extended once, counted from the day after it would have expired, within the range the provision allows, with the reason for the extension itself notified to the applicant.
Another reading stresses the boundary of that duty: matters beyond the result and the period are not settled by this provision but follow the Administrative Framework Act, so who may object, in what form, and through which channels those matters are handled has to be established from that Act rather than from the file of the objection itself.
Your judgment
Was the objection received by the head of the Support Management Agency itself, or only by an office within it, so that the period the provision sets has begun to run?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We revisit this card if the provision is amended to change the deciding body or the period it sets, or if a decision applies the Administrative Framework Act to an objection of this kind and settles how it must be filed.