Grant disbursements

Grant disbursements. (a) Subject to the supervisory authority of the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of each judicial circuit in which a domestic relations legal fund has been established shall annually make grant disbursements from the fund to domestic relations legal charities that handle domestic relations matters within the judicial circuit which meet the criteria in this Section. (b) Disbursements by the Chief Judge shall be made to qualified domestic relations legal charities that operate exclusively within a judicial circuit based on each charity's proportionate share of the total number of domestic relations cases handled, without collecting a fee or charge from the indigent litigant, by all qualified domestic relations legal charities in that circuit during the year prior to application. (c) In no event shall the disbursements to any domestic relations legal charity in one year exceed $500,000. Any amounts collected under Section 15 but not disbursed in a particular year shall: (1) in single-county judicial circuits, be paid to the county treasurer for the administration of justice in the judicial circuit; and (2) in judicial circuits of more than one county, be paid to the county treasurers of each county of the judicial circuit for the administration of justice in the judicial circuit, in amounts in proportion to the amounts of the disbursements made by each of the county treasurers to the fund during that year. (Source: P.A. 89-56, eff. 1-1-96.)