arrearage
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9.6
- noun
- /əˈrɪrɪdʒ/
- Specialized
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deuda pendiente
- Gives the court discretion to reduce arrearage-only payments and income withholding below the amount ordered to be paid and withheld to pay both current child support and arrears under the child support order that was in effect during the child's minority.
- arrearage payments
- pay our arrearages
Examples
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The Ohio Poverty Law Center will monitor the progress of HB 561 and, in particular, the proposed arrearage-only payment amendment. If anyone has any questions about HB 561, they should contact Mike Smalz.
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Many families struggle with rental arrearage when they lose their jobs and can't pay their rent.
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3121.36 Authority to collect arrearage after termination of order.
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3123.14 Collecting arrearage where the order is terminated.
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When a parent receives a show cause order, the order includes the amount of money owed (the arrearage) and a date for the court hearing (the show cause hearing).
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Judge 3 explained, "If I put someone in jail, and they can't come up with the money to get out, that's not helping the child; their arrearages are growing, and taxpayers are footing the bill."
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In May, the Senate appended a provision to a bill dealing with payment of U.S. arrearages to the United Nations that would ban federal funding of organizations abroad that condone abortion as a method of family planning.
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This change should benefit low-income obligors who experience a drastic decline in income sometime after the termination of their current child support obligation and before the liquidation of the entire arrearage.
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For example, if the child turns 18, thereby terminating the current child support obligation, and the obligor later becomes disabled and his only income is SSD benefits, he could ask the court or CSEA to lower his arrearage-only payments because of his drastically changed circumstances.
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The termination of a court support order or administrative child support order does not abate the power of any court or child support enforcement agency to collect any overdue and unpaid support or arrearage owed under the terminated support order or the power of the court to punish any person for a failure to comply with or to pay any support as ordered in the terminated support order.
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Synonyms
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8.4
Money that you should have paid earlier but still owe
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6.8
Failure to pay money owed for a loan or credit card by the due date
Antonyms
- Specialized
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3.5
The final action that pays debts and closes a business or financial deal
Surface Forms
Morphology
arrearage = arrear (semi-transparent) = arrear + age
The word is built from the same financial idea as 'arrear(s)' plus the noun-forming suffix '-age', but the base is uncommon and the meaning is somewhat specialized.
Etymology
The word arrearage comes from arrears, from an old word meaning 'at the back' or 'behind', and you can think of the English word rear, 'the back', to remember it. So an arrearage is an amount of money that is 'behind' or overdue in payment.