N.D. Cent. Code § 14-09-08.18
14-09-08.18. Health insurance reimbursements received by but not owed to obligor to be paid over - Finding of contempt - Treatment as delinquent child support
14-09-08.18. Health insurance reimbursements received by but not owed to obligor to
be paid over - Finding of contempt - Treatment as delinquent child support.
1. A payment for services rendered by a medical provider to an obligor's dependent
which is directed to the obligor in the form of reimbursements from health insurance
must be paid to the medical provider, custodial parent, or child support agency when
the reimbursement is not owed to the obligor.
2. Any child support order that requires an obligor to provide health insurance is deemed
to include the requirements of this section. An obligor retaining insurance
reimbursement not owed to the obligor may be found in contempt of a child support
order that requires the obligor to provide health insurance.
3. Any insurance reimbursement received by the obligor, but not owed to the obligor, may
be treated as delinquent child support thirty days after receipt by the obligor if not
sooner paid to the medical provider, custodial parent, or child support agency, as their
interests may appear, and is subject to all remedies available under this code for the
collection of delinquent child support.