People Ex Rel. Winger v. Young

The sole issue presented by this case is whether a child support order under the Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act (URESA) (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1977, ch. 40, pars. 1201-1242) may provide that the court clerk withhold transmittal of child support payments until the custodial parent makes the child available for visitation to the parent ordered to pay support.

Petitioner, Francine M. Winger (wife), and respondent, Arthur C. Young (husband), were divorced in 1974. The divorce decree, entered by the Circuit Court of Cook County, awarded custody of the parties’ minor child to the wife.…