{"data":{"id":"us-ca/fam-4722","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"FAM § 4722","heading":"","body":"(a) Any person with a court order for child support, the payments on which are more than 30 days in arrears, may file and then serve a notice of delinquency, as described in this chapter.\n(b) Except as provided in Section 4726, and subject to Section 4727, any amount of child support specified in a notice of delinquency that remains unpaid for more than 30 days after the notice of delinquency has been filed and served shall incur a penalty of 6 percent of the delinquent payment for each month that it remains unpaid, up to a maximum of 72 percent of the unpaid balance due.","path":["Family Code - FAM","DIVISION 9. SUPPORT [3500. - 5700.905.]","PART 5. ENFORCEMENT OF SUPPORT ORDERS [4500. - 5616.]","CHAPTER 5. Civil Penalty for Child Support Delinquency [4720. - 4733.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"6848a94e2fd03822e8983ccca617c324400c0fa18f1fac51a98ff9b2c942f754","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/fam-4721","next":"us-ca/fam-4723"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}