QUALIFIED MEDICAL CHILD-SUPPORT ORDER

qualified medical child-support order.A family-court order that enables a nonemployee

custodial parent — without the employee parent’s consent — to enroll the child, make claims, and

receive payments as needed under the employee parent’s group health plan, all at the employee

parent’s expense. • The group-health-plan administrator must find that the order meets the

requirements of a QMCSO, which are established by § 609(a) of the Employee Retirement

Income Security Act, 29 USCA § 1169(a). — Abbr. QMCSO. [Blacks Law 8^th]